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Tree Thinking - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan on trees and thinking with poets Jason Allen-Paisant and Sheena Blackhall, novelist Sarah Moss, and forester and author of 'The Hidden Life of Trees', Peter Wohlleben.

Ian McMillan on the language we use to think and write about trees and the kind of thinking we do alongside them - with forester and environmentalist Peter Wohlleben whose books include 'The Hidden Life of Trees', poet and academic Jason Allen-Paisant, bestselling novelist Sarah Moss, and Scots language specialist and Makar of the North East, Sheena Blackhall.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

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43 minutes

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.

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  • Fri 11 Jun 202122:00

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