PICK OF THE DAY

EXTREME WIVES WITH KATE HUMBLE, 9PM, BBC2,

HAVING spent time in many countries, talking to people from different cultures, Kate Humble has been struck by how the everyday roles of women offer a great insight into a society’s values and how it works. In this three-part series, she meets women from three diverse and extraordinary communities around the world, where the female role is complex and, in some cases, extreme. Israel and India are Kate’s destinations over the coming weeks, but she begins in East Africa, in the Kuria district of south-west Kenya, where women are caught on the cusp between age-old tradition and the modern world.