Billet Doux
Welcome to Billet Doux, a show about literature and love.
Listen to the greatest love letters ever composed or, if you’re so inclined, write and submit your own!
If there’s something you’d like to say to that special guy or gal, don’t keep it to yourself…
Send it over to [email protected] and I’ll read it ON AIR for all the world to hear!
Let’s relearn how to love, one letter at a time.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2024
Inside a HAUNTED Manor on HALLOWEEN Night! | Emily Hartley and Charlie Lennox
In the tiny, sleepy town of Gibbon, Nebraska, a Halloween party was being held.
At the party, Emily Hartley–a hometown girl, recently returned from college–met Charlie Lennox, a handsome young man fr…
“Love is fed by the IMAGINATION, by which we become WISER than we know, BETTER than we feel, NOBLER than we are” | Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
While imprisoned in Reading Gaol for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote a letter to his friend and lover, Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas (1897).
If you have a love letter that you’d like me…
“What I DESIRE is impossible, for what I desire is YOU” | Rafiq Ahmed and Radha Menon
The love story of Rafiq Ahmed and Radha Menon (1965)
“If my family finds out what I’ve been up to, they’ll never forgive me. I’ll be disowned!”
If you have a love letter that you’d like me to read ri…
“My SOUL quivers to the vibration of your STRINGS” | Alejandro Moreno and Yelitza Rodriguez
The love story of Alejandro Moreno and Yelitza Rodriguez (2024)
“There is only one audience for whom I wish to play, and she is right here”.
If you have a love letter that you’d like me to read right…
“As long as I’ve lived, I’ve YEARNED to love” | Erik Svensson and Katya Ivanova
A story of the romance between Erik Svensson and Katya Ivanova (AD 823):
Erik Svensson, a young Viking from Sweden, joined his warlord father on a mission to cross the Baltic Sea and invade the mainl…
“Even before I rise, my thoughts rush to you, my IMMORTAL BELOVED!” | Ludwig van Beethoven to Antonie Brentano
Ludwig van Beethoven’s billet-doux to Antonie Brentano (1812):
“I must live either wholly with you, or not at all”.
If you have a love letter that you’d like me to read right here on this podcast for…
Two Athletes fall in LOVE at the Paris OLYMPICS | Rafael Pérez and Renée Trumbull
A story of the romance between Rafael Pérez and Renée Trumbull (2024).
Renée Trumbull, a Canadian gymnast, and Rafael Pérez, a Spanish swimmer, qualified to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Par…
"Our love is FORBIDDEN, but it can’t be helped" | Kenji Matsumoto and Li Mei
The love story of Kenji Matsumoto and Li Mei (1937):
Kenji Matsumoto, a young soldier conscripted to the JAPANESE imperial army, was taken from his university and stationed outside Yan’an.
While patr…
“I’ll forget your NAME the day I forget the FOOD I live on” | Michelangelo to Tommaso de Cavalieri
Michelangelo’s billet-doux to Tommaso de Cavalieri (1533):
“Perhaps you said this to try me, or to rekindle a greater flame in me, if it were possible. Whichever it is, I know for sure that I’ll forg…
“It was the flame of LUST rather than the feeling of LOVE” | Peter Abèlard and Heloïse
A touching exchange of billets-doux between Heloïse and Peter Abèlard (12th century).
“Every wife, every young girl desired you in your absence and was on fire in your presence; queens and great ladi…
“I should LOVE her FOREVER, were it only for that” | Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway
A beautiful billet-doux sent from Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway (1786).
“Friendship is precious not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and, thanks to a benevolent arrangement of thing…
“My only LUCID moments were DREAMS of you" | Hector Berlioz to Harriet Smithson
A beautiful love story, written by Hector Berlioz for Harriet Smithson (1865).
“A plan began to take shape in my mind: Harriet Smithson should hear of me! She should know that I also was an artist!”
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Welcome to Billet Doux
Welcome to Billet Doux, a show about literature and love.
On this show, dear friend–than which you’ll not find another lovelier, nor sweeter–we’ll read some of the most arrestingly beautiful love let…