A video has emerged from London, UK of actor Benedict Cumberbatch making an emotional plea for donations to help refugees.<br /><br />Cumberbatch was speaking to the audience at the Barbican Theatre earlier this month after his performance as Hamlet.<br /><br />The actor has been making speeches after every show and reads from a poem called "Home" by Somali poet Warsan Shire. It includes the words: “No one puts children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”<br /><br />Cumberbatch's speeches have been taking an increasingly anti-government tone with criticism of the British government's decision to accept only 20,000 refugees over five years.<br /><br />During a recent speech he reportedly said “f**k the politicians”.
