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The Forest and The Trees

The Forest and The Trees

Update: 2025-08-12
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This week’s episode asks us to pause. To pay attention to the world around us and to think of the power that nature has to heal damaged and abandoned spaces.  

 

Would they survive without humans?

The first story is about resilience. Not human resilience, but about the persistence of trees growing in places that you might not expect.  Raihanah takes us on a journey to toxic places reclaimed by trees.  

Produced by Raihanah Raihanah as part of a collaboration between All the Best, the University of Melbourne and the Science Gallery. 

Supervising Producer Persephone Waxman. 

 

The Forest and the Trees 

Have you heard of Shirin-Yoku?  Ruth, who volunteers in palliative care, by helping people record their stories,  learns about the therapeutic benefits of listening to trees from a certified forest therapy guide,  Mayu Kataoka. 

Produced by Ruth Melville,

Supervising Producer Sarah Mashman. 

 

Between nature and the sound of the guqin 

So far, we’ve heard about the resilience of trees and the way nature teaches us to live fully in the moment. In our final story, Jiaen Pan teaches us about Guquin

 

Produced by Jiaen Pan, another collaboration between All the Best, the University of Melbourne and the Science Gallery. 

Supervising Producer Thomas Phillips 

 

All The Best Credits

Host Kwame Slusher

Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Programs and Community Coordinator: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Community Coordinator: Patrick McKenzie

Artwork: Ruijie Tang

Mixed and Compiled by Emma Higgins

Theme Music composed by Shining Bird 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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