Letters to Our Sons

What advice do you wish you’d shared before your son’s first day at school? When he missed or scored that goal? Or the day he left home?

When was the last time you hugged him?

And what would you do if you had your time again?

Award-winning actor Stephen Graham and psychology lecturer Orly Klein have invited fathers from all walks of life to put into words the things they couldn’t say out loud to their sons.

Full of hope, fear, shame and pride, Letters to Our Sons is a raw and extraordinary outpouring of the sometimes messy, often joyful, and always complex realities of modern fatherhood.

Be part of the conversation. It's time to really talk.

Stephen Graham OBE is an Emmy-winning actor, most recently known for his lead role in Adolescence (Netflix), which he co-created, co-wrote and starred in. Produced by Matriarch Productions, which he runs alongside Hannah Walters, the one-shot limited series became Netflix’s second most-watched English-language show worldwide. It earned 14 Emmy nominations and went on to win 8 Emmy Awards, of which Stephen won Best Lead Actor, Best Writing, and Best Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie. Stephen also recently starred in and exec-produced BAFTA award-winning Boiling Point (BBC) and A Thousand Blows (Disney/Hulu). Other notable credits include This is England, Boardwalk Empire, Help, The Virtues, Time. He can next be seen in Deliver Me From Nowhere, Peaky Blinders (film), and an untitled Apple TV+ project based on the novels by Lars Kepler.

Orly Klein spent many years working with homeless people in Central London, before becoming a Psychology Lecturer. She spent two years doing participatory research on Room to Rant, a music project for 16-25 year old men which uses Rap as a therapeutic tool. She enjoys print-making, cold water swimming and trying out new recipes - though her results never look anything like the pictures. She grew up near Wembley, and now lives in Brighton with her partner, son, and a goldfish named Dorothy.