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Celebrity supporters - Right to Read campaign

Summary: About the celebrities who have supported the Right to Read campaign.

Celebrity support

A number of celebrities have given their support by signing the Right to Read Declaration:

Individual photos of (from top) Julian Fellowes, Joanna Lumley, Ian Hislop, Jacqueline Wilson, James Nesbitt, Joanna Harris

  • Emma B
  • Lynda Bellingham
  • Marcus Brigstocke
  • Dame A.S. Byatt
  • Edwina Currie
  • Tess Daley
  • Margaret Drabble
  • Peter Duffy
  • Julian Fellowes
  • Frederick Forsyth
  • Neil and Christine Hamilton
  • Joanne Harris
  • Tony Hawks
  • Paul Hayes
  • Ian Hislop
  • Douglas Hodge
  • Wendy Holden
  • Rachael Hopper
  • Andrea Levy
  • Robert Lindsay
  • Maureen Lipman
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Trevor McDonald
  • Jed Mercurio
  • Juliet Morris
  • Dermot Murnaghan
  • Jenni Murray
  • James Nesbitt
  • Mary Nightingale
  • Baroness Ruth Rendell
  • Jenna Russell
  • Harriet Scott
  • Valerie Singleton
  • Carol Smillie
  • Jamie Theakston
  • Alan Titchmarsh
  • Joanna Trollope
  • Anthea Turner
  • Fay Weldon
  • Jacqueline Wilson

Add your name to the Right to Read declaration.

Celebrity comments

Michael Palin -“I’m delighted to be lending my support to the Right to Read Campaign once again. Himalaya, will now be available as a talking book before the printed version, as Sahara was last year. So at least in these few rare circumstances, blind and partially sighted people will be able to get hold of a book at the same time as their sighted friends and family.”

Jacqueline Wilson OBE - “Reading is probably the thing I enjoy doing the most. I never ever travel on a bus or train without a book in my bag. Without my glasses I can’t see very well at all. I have always been worried about losing my sight completely because reading means so much to me.”

A L Kennedy - “It should be possible for anyone to have any work they need access to, transcribed or taped on demand. We live in a wealthy nation and can afford the small price required to give so much pleasure to so many.”

Philip Pullman - “Not being able to read would for me be the biggest imaginative deprivation of them all. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be shut out of 95 per cent of all the books that are available to me now, that is why I am so keen to support the Right to Read campaign.

Other support

Celebrities who have also pledged their support include Julian Barnes, Melvyn Bragg, Jim Broadbent, Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Lady Antonia Fraser, Nicci French, Martin Jarvis, Marian Keyes, the late Sir John Mills, Robert Newman, Alexei Sayle

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Content author: campaign@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 20/11/2008 11:13

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