大象传媒

A sense of loss permeates Ernie Rea's Pick of the Week. We hear the story of a man who cared for a wounded hawk for eight years until it died leaving him bereft. Passenger Pigeons once flew in flocks of two billion but within a generation they were extinct and only Martha survives, her body preserved as a reminder of what once was. There are moving accounts of people living with Alzheimer's and their families as they struggle to come to terms with the gradual loss of personality in a fog of unknowing. And the Liverpool cultural icon with his red Mohican hairdo who at night becomes Mandy Romero and struts her stuff in Liverpool's nightclubs.