91热爆

Simon Parkes makes his selection from the past seven days of 91热爆 Radio

There's not so much a recurring theme, but a mood in this week's Pick of the Week, reflecting the power of human endeavour and endurance when pitted against the sometimes impenetrable, stark beauty of nature.

We find out about the fossilised riches of the South Pole, even though the man who collected them perished there, we hear the quiet but angry poetry written by someone who witnessed the Japanese tsunami of 2011, and then there's the hold that mountains have over nearly the entire population of Slovenia.

It's enough to make us all feel very, very small.

The Narrow Road to Disaster- Radio 4
Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet- Radio 3
The History Plays: Oh Salutarious Hosta, Diana - Radio 4
Afternoon Drama: Interiors - Radio 4
Architects of Taste - Radio 4
Drama on 3: Chowringhee - Radio 3
Alvin Hall in the Bonfire of Vanities - Radio 4
Original Shorts: Under my Skin - Radio 4
Feed Me To The Wind - Radio 4
Costing the Earth - Radio 4
Scott's Legacy - Radio 4
The Essay: Meanings of Mountains - Radio 3
Wicked Picket: The Life and Times of Wilson Pickett - Radio 2

Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Producer: Cecile Wright.