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Narrator

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch was born and raised in London. He attended Harrow School on an arts scholarship, where he began painting and acting. He studied drama at Manchester University, and continued his training with a one-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Benedict has worked in theatre, television, film and radio. His breakthrough came in 2004 when he portrayed Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor. In 2010, he became a household name as Sherlock Holmes in the British television series Sherlock. He has appeared in two Oscar-nominated films, War Horse (2011) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and has been noted for his outstanding performance in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).

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Title:

Letters of Note: Music (MP3)

Written by:

Shaun Usher 

Read by:

Juliet Stevenson; Simon Callow; Miriam Margolyes; Benedict Cumberbatch; Stephen Mangan; Stephen Fry; Louise Brealey; Toby Jones; Mark Strong; Sanjeev Bhaskar; Adrian Edmondson; Danny Huston; Jude Law; Clarke Peters; Nick Cave; Crystal Clarke 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

2 hours 30 minutes 

MP3 size:

109 MB 

Published:

July 01 2020 

Available Date:

July 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655675150 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs; Musician 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Canongate audio 

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In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about the musicians and music that enrich our lives, eliciting the full range of emotion from the human heart.

A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com. In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all stripes. Includes letters by: Ludwig van Beethoven, Nick Cave, Helen Keller, Keith Richards, Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Erik Satie, Angélique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Kim Gordon and many more.

'Another mailbag stuffed with funny, heartbreaking and passionate letters … engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully enthusiastic and laugh-out-loud funny.'
The Times

'Shaun Usher’s More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems of the epistolary arts.'
Guardian