Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious letter about a colleague with an unfortunate name
At the height of World War II on April 6 th 1943, at which point he was British Ambassador to Moscow, the famously eccentric Sir Archibald Clark Kerr wrote a letter to Foreign Office minister Lord Reginald Pembroke, about a colleague with an unfortunate name.
Benedict Cumberbatch joined us at Letters Live at the Royal Albert Hall in November to read it.
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