If These Trees Could Talk
by Shannon Walters
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Mungo - Where Time Tells a Different Story
Mungo - Where Time Tells a Different Story
About this podcast
If These Trees Could Talk is an Australian storytelling podcast shaped by memory. The kind held quietly in both land and people.
Some stories linger where they happened, settling into soil, roots, and place. If These Trees Could Talk explores Australian true crime, mystery, history, and the paranormal, listening for what unfolded here and what still echoes through the landscape.
From the same roots grows What Would They Say. A connected space for the wisdom of lived experience, inner landscapes, emotional truth, and the stories so often left unspoken.
Like the trees, we exist as part of an intricate ecosystem; connected beneath the surface and sustained through community. When stories are shared, their weight is dispersed, allowing understanding, healing, and connection to grow.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 71 episodes
- Mungo - Where Time Tells a Different Story · 1 h 23 min · Episode 71What if a place could change the way you understand Australia's history? In far south-western New South Wales lies Mungo National Park, a landscape that holds evidence of human…
- If We Listened - ADHD Through My Eyes · 47 min · Episode 70If We Listened gives young people the microphone - because sometimes the people we spend so much time teaching have something to teach us too. They have opinions, experiences…
- What the Water Took -The Mystery of Margaret Clement and the Tullaree Swamp · 1 h 4 min · Episode 69A story of fortune, isolation and a woman who simply vanished. Once an heiress living a life of extraordinary privilege, Margaret Clement watched as fortune, family and the grand…
- A Bad Day for Playground Duty - The Westall UFO Encounter · 58 min · Episode 6860 years and still more questions than answers. In 1966, hundreds of students and teachers at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia, looked up — and sixty years later…
- If We Listened | More Than NF1 · 28 min · Episode 67What might we learn if we listened to young people a little more? If We Listened gives young people the microphone - because sometimes the people we spend so much time teaching…
- The Thread That Wouldn't Break – An Exploration of Healing with Ruth Carroll · 1 h 7 min · Episode 66What happens after you survive? For much of Ruth Carroll’s life, survival was simply part of everyday existence. Childhood sexual abuse, an abduction at knifepoint and an abusive…
- Darcey Freeman | When Hurt Becomes Harm · 49 min · Episode 65On 29 January 2009, four-year-old Darcey Freeman should have been starting her first day of school. Instead, Australia witnessed one of its most devastating acts of family…
- Practising What I Preach · 11 min · Episode 64This week's episode is a little different. No guest. No big story. Just an honest conversation. Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time exploring what growth really…
- Growing Sideways - What a Tree Taught Me About Success · 49 min · Episode 63For years, I measured my life against a definition of success that never seemed to fit. I celebrated other people's achievements with ease, yet struggled to recognise my own. It…
- Neil the Seal | Australia's Wildest Teenager · 48 min · Episode 62Neil the Seal has captured hearts across Australia—but behind the viral photos is one of the ocean's most extraordinary wild animals. In this episode, Shannon sits down with…
- The Way Home - In conversation with Aunty Brenda Matthews · 49 min · Episode 62As NAIDOC Week draws to a close, we continue our conversation with Aunty Brenda Matthews. In this second and concluding chapter, the focus shifts from what was taken to what has…
- Stolen - In conversation with Aunty Brenda Matthews · 49 min · Episode 61As NAIDOC Week begins, Megan and Shannon sit down with Aunty Brenda Matthews—proud Wiradjuri woman, author, filmmaker, speaker and survivor of the Stolen Generations—to share the…
- Ghost Fungi and the Physics of Wonder with Dr Karen Livesey · 47 min · Episode 60Ghost mushrooms seem almost impossible. Tiny fungi glowing in the darkness of the Australian bush, creating one of nature's most extraordinary natural spectacles. But as…
- The Chapter That Changed Everything · 1 h 0 min · Episode 59In this episode of What Would They Say, Shannon sits down with Doug and McKenna, the father and sister of Riley, a young man whose life ended in suicide. Together, they share not…
- Finding Home Again · 59 min · Episode 58Memory, belonging, and learning to live where love still echoes. In Part 2 of Shannon’s conversation with Racheal Rye, the focus shifts from grief itself to the places grief…
- I Bend, I Don’t Break: Life, Love, Death and the Grief That Connects Them · 1 h 13 min · Episode 57In this deeply personal episode, Shannon sits down with her close friend Racheal for a conversation about grief and the unimaginable experience of losing a child. Rachel has lost…
- The Edge of the Forest · 58 min · Episode 56What happens when we step beyond what feels safe? In this episode, Shannon and Megan explore the invisible boundaries that shape our lives and the quiet ways our worlds can…
- Chasing Your Passion and Everything It Asks of You with Kirsty Lee Akers · 52 min · Episode 55A few episodes ago, Megan and Shannon found themselves stuck on a question that felt far bigger than either of them expected… Why is it so easy to encourage other people to chase…
- This Was Never His Story · 50 min · Episode 54You probably know the name Malcolm Naden.But do you know theirs? This episode revisits one of Australia’s most widely known manhunts—but not in the way it’s usually told. While…
- What They Say: Yowie Experiences, Belief, Skepticism & What They Might Be Telling Us · 37 min · Episode 53In Part 2 of this conversation with Sarah Bignell, we move beyond the encounters themselves and into what happens after they’re shared. Because seeing something is one thing……
