As part of Melbourne's Urban Forest Strategy, over 70,000 trees were assigned individual IDs and email addresses to allow people to report on their condition. An unexpected result was that people from around the world started writing personal letters to the trees, including love letters, musings on life and bad tree jokes. In this episode we learn about the City of Melbourne's Urban Forest Strategy and hear a few of the love letters written to the trees. We also speak with composer Ciaran Frame, whose sound installation and performative work titled 'The Urban Forest', situates the audience in a multi-sensory, experiential world, foregrounding and celebrating the diversity of tree species using the City of Melbourne's data on every living tree in the Melbourne CBD. Through this work Frame seeks to answer the question 'what if trees could make music, what would they sound like and what would they say?'. Guests: Ciaran Frame, composer, media artist and educator Giuliana Leslie, Project Officer - Urban Forest and Ecology | Parks and City Greening, City of Melbourne Host: Kate Barber Links City of Melbourne Urban Forest Strategy City of Melbourne Urban Forest Visual Ciaran Frame, The Urban Forest Ciaran Frame, website Livia Gershon, 'The Tree Huggers who saved India's Forest', JSTOR Daily, March 2019. Margaret Burin, 'People from all over the world are sending emails to Melbourne's trees', ABC, December 2018.