• The Meaning of Trees Podcast

  • By: Tom Hill
  • Podcast

The Meaning of Trees Podcast

By: Tom Hill
  • Summary

  • Hosted by Trees & Woodland Specialist, Tom Hill, The Meaning of Trees Podcast explores what trees mean to all of us in 2024. Tom uncovers his guests' personal histories with trees and forests, investigates our basic human dependency upon them and highlights the predicaments many of our oldest trees and woods face today globally in terms of their ongoing protection and care. The Meaning of Trees Podcast shines a light on the many weird and wonderful ways that trees remain quietly essential to all our lives today.

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Episodes
  • E18: *End of Season Special* - Let's Flip the Script!
    Jul 6 2024

    Guest host and friend of the podcast, Arifah Sheikh, takes charge of this end-of-series special with Tom turning guest for the day before interviewing his 10 year old daughter to round off the season.

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    59 mins
  • E17: Reg Harris - Tree Doctor
    Jun 29 2024

    Reg Harris is Director of Urban Forestry Ltd and an Arborist and Veteran Tree Consultant who works with highly prestigious trees like the famous Major Oak at Sherwood Forest.

    Tom and Reg chat about the lifelong impressions that a chance meeting with an indigenous North American man made upon him as a child, what it is about ancient trees that makes him so passionate about his work and how he ended up running the London Marathon bare foot.

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    56 mins
  • E16: Wyl Menmuir - Nature Writer
    Jun 22 2024

    Wyl Menmuir is the award-winning author of The Heart of the Woods, a new book uncovering our deep cultural associations with trees and the traditional crafts and rituals that continue to bind us to them today.

    Tom and Wyl meet up at the Ankerwycke yew to chat about the legendary Green Man, discuss Wyl’s reflections on ancient forest cultures in Japan and get to the bottom of why he undertook a planned trespass.

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    48 mins

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