The project, from Graham and psychology lecturer Orly Klein, contains letters from multiple fathers from around the world to their sons about the various ways it “means to be a man”.<\/p>\n
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Related: Best streaming services UK 2026 \u2013 including Disney+, Netflix, iPlayer and Apple TV<\/a><\/p>\n It’s now been confirmed that the book will be released on Thursday, 24 September, while the celebrity dads who have penned letters have also been announced.<\/p>\n The list includes actors Danny Dyer, Javier Bardem, Daniel Mays, Michael Socha, Ashley Walters and Riz Ahmed, Olympian Tom Daley, football stars Chris Kamara and Jamie Redknapp, writer Jack Thorne, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, presenter Jeff Brazier, musician Goldie, Educating Yorkshire’s Matthew Burton, and documentary-maker Louis Theroux.<\/p>\n On the Wednesday and Thursday of release week, Graham and Klein will host live events at Liverpool’s Playhouse and Westminster’s Central Hall, respectively.<\/p>\n They’ll be sharing letters on stage and bringing along some special guests, with tickets set to go on sale this Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeff Spicer\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n Related: “Fantastically fun” British musical with Stephen Graham is now streaming on the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n “We have been overwhelmed by the response to Stephen and Orly’s call-out, which prompted dads from all backgrounds and with a huge range of experiences to write in,” said Katy Follain, the head of Bloomsbury General.<\/p>\n “And to have fathers in the public eye now contributing too adds to the incredibly powerful messaging of this unique book: we are all in this together, whatever our status and profession. It shows how parenting is the great leveller and how we can learn from one another, and we are truly touched to have so many voices come together for this era-defining collection.<\/p>\n “The events in Liverpool and London will be inspiring, moving and entertaining, and we look forward to fathers coming together to celebrate and share their personal stories.”<\/p>\n Letters to Our Sons will be released on 24 September.<\/p>\n Visit our Streaming Guide<\/a> now to see at a glance where you can view ALL your favourite shows and movies.<\/p>\n The new edition of Living Legends, celebrating the global phenomenon of BTS, is here! Buy this ultimate fan guide in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Graham’s “groundbreaking” new project has announced a whole host of famous faces that are taking part, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,147144,2115,252312,2117,156,207184,2116,111,139,69,252311,251090],"class_list":["post-505863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-18feac53-5cc7-4a05-a143-096ba16f601c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-theroux-and-dyer-joining-stephen-grahams-brand-new-project","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"danny](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/58db500e-9dc1-4240-b85a-24685ee4dfe0.jpg\" "\\"Danny")
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