Can't make it to the Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2024? Don't worry because Jersey Library are bringing some of the festival here via livestream through our partnership with the British Library Living Knowledge Network.

Part of the Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2024, we will be showing a livestream of Baroness Lola Young in conversation with Paterson Joseph. Baroness Lola Young sheds light on the oft-ignored foster care system, and her personal relationship with it, as she was a foster child, moved between countless placements and children’s homes between the ages of eight weeks and 18 years. She talks to actor and writer Paterson Joseph about searching through her care records, fragments of memory and her imagination to assemble the pieces of her past into a portrait of a childhood in a system that often made her feel invisible and unwanted.