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The Meaning of Trees Podcast

The Meaning of Trees Podcast

By: Tom Hill
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The Meaning of Trees Podcast explores the many ways that trees remain quietly essential to all our lives today.

Tree Specialist, Tom Hill, uncovers his guests' personal histories with trees and forests, investigates our basic human dependency upon them and shines a light on how they continue to connect us to each other and to other living things.

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Episodes
  • The Mystery Guest - E30

    The Mystery Guest - E30
    May 3 2025

    Tom meets a mystery guest in what ends up being a particularly revealing interview for him personally...

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    31 mins
  • In Arboretum Filmmaker - Kate Colenbrander (@katecolenbrander) - E29

    In Arboretum Filmmaker - Kate Colenbrander (@katecolenbrander) - E29
    Apr 26 2025

    Kate Colenbrander is a Canadian documentary maker, photographer, writer and UCL Anthropology graduate who brings hidden stories to light from beneath the surface of mainstream conversation.

    Tom and Kate discuss her provocative new film - In Arboretum - which poses important questions about the lack of protection our oldest trees face versus development, what the modern human / tree relationship looks like today and what trees might say if they were able to talk.

    Watch Kate's film - IN ARBORETUM here: https://youtu.be/CSuK3Ea6L9E

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    Check out Kate's website here: https://katecolenbrander.com/
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    55 mins
  • Deep Time Forest Researcher - Elena Pearce - E28

    Deep Time Forest Researcher - Elena Pearce - E28
    Apr 12 2025

    Elena Pearce is a post-doctoral Researcher with Aarhus University in Denmark with a special curiosity in what Europe’s forest ecology was like before the last ice age.

    Hear her explanation of the long term warming and cooling cycles of our planet, her thoughts on how studying the forests of the past can help us better understand the present picture and why re-inventing a woolly mammoth might not be the best of ideas.

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    Visit Elena's Aarhus University Research profile here: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/elena.pearce@bio.au.dk
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    37 mins

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