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 Tom Mustill in conversation with Marnie Chesterton. Mustill was whale watching in 2015 when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. He became obsessed with trying to work out what the whale had been thinking, and while making a film about his experience discovered that cutting-edge developments and discoveries mean asking the whale what happened might not be beyond the realm of possibility. Mustill discusses the technologies and scientists who are working to turn the fantasy of Dr Dolittle into a reality, and looks ahead to how making contact could change our approach to the natural world.