Rebecca Markwick chats with Chair of the Hay Literary Festival Caroline Michel all about the festival in all its forms across the globe. We discuss the move to digital online festivals, the success of the festival in multiple countries, the difficulty in discoverability of events in an online setting, and how wonderful authors and speakers are. We also chat about the therapeutic effects of reading and books, and how wide ranging the Hay Festival talks and authors are across multiple languages.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/shelf-healing/2021/05/27/hay-festival-with-chair-caroline-michel/ 

Date of episode recording: 2021-05-27
Duration: 35:11
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Rebecca Markwick
Guests: Caroline Michel
Producer: Rebecca Markwick (also Editor); Dr Samantha Rayner