Lesley Sharp is the fourth of our Link Age Southwark Ambassadors to feature in our series Lockdown Listens.

Lesley kindly agreed to record herself at home reading Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke.

About Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp is an actress who appears regularly on stage in London and in film and television. Her television credits include Three Girls, Bob and Rose, Afterlife, Scott and Bailey, and Clocking Off.

She has appeared onstage at the National Theatre in A Taste of Honey and The Lyric Hammersmith in The Seagull by Chekhov. Her film credits include Rita, Sue and Bob Too, The Fully Monty and Vera Drake.


Link Age Southwark is very fortunate to have support from a great team of Ambassadors and we have been working with them to produce Lockdown Listens – a series of readings where our actor Ambassadors read a short story or poem. The aim of the readings is to give a morale boost during lockdown.

Lockdown Listens

If you have any comments about our series Lockdown Listens - let us know!