Posting Letters
to the Moon

To celebrate Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum's 10th Anniversary, Lucy Fleming and her husband, Simon Williams, will be performing “Posting Letters to the Moon”, their show bringing to life the story of the wartime letters between her mother, Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and her husband Peter Fleming, the renowned adventurer and writer, brother of Bond author Ian Fleming. 

These touching and amusing letters from Celia to her husband tell of her experiences during the war – from coping with a large isolated house full of evacuated children, learning to drive a tractor, dealing with rationing, occasional holidays in Cornwall where she took to surfing, and all the while accepting offers, when she could get away, to act – for films, broadcasts, and ultimately in 1945 starring in the classic film Brief Encounter.