Music Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Passionate Letter By Kurt Vonnegut On Censoring “Slaughterhouse-Five” Nov 4, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Linkedin ReddIt Email Print At the 2014 ‘Letters Live’ event at the Hay Festival, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter by Kurt Vonnegut to a headmaster who had just burned all the copies of a particular book by Kurt in the school’s furnace.