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

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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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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