Sunday Times racing correspondent Roger Mortimer spent 25 years writing to his only son, Charlie, and in 2012, many of those amusing, touching, exasperated, gossip-filled missives were collected to form the book, Dear Lupin. This is just one, written in 1978 when Charlie was working away from home.

None other than Sir Tony Robinson joined us to read this brilliantly funny letter at Letters Live at London's Royal Albert Hall in March 2024.