James Walton

The girl who had sex with dolphins

This BBC4 documentary on a bonkers episode in animal science lives up to its own hype

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins, BBC Photo: John Lily Estate 
issue 21 June 2014

BBC4’s The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (Tuesday) began with the overstated-sounding claim that it would be tackling ‘perhaps the most remarkable period in the history of animal science’. In fact, though, the longer the programme went on, the more convincing this claim felt — even if the word ‘period’ should possibly have been replaced with ‘episode’, and ‘remarkable’ with ‘bonkers’.

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