Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Assignment: Wife Hunting in the Faroes WORLD SERVICE, 1.30PM

The remote archipelago of the Faroe Islands is experiencing a shortage of females. Young women brought up on the islands tend to leave and not return, partly because of the masculine traditional culture of hunting, fishing and sheep-farming that endures there. Men of marriageable age are instead importing wives, many of them from south east Asia, which leads to something of a culture clash while they adapt to the change in climate and differences in language, as Tim Ecott discovers here.

Radio 3 In Concert RADIO 3, 7.30PM

During their recent concert season, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their associate guest conductor, John Wilson, have been exploring the work of Elgar. This musical journey comes to a climax in tonight’s live concert from Glasgow, which includes a performance of Elgar’s reconstructed Third Symphony. They are joined by tenor Ian Bostridge for Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, incorporating text from Tennyson, Keats and Blake and composed during the Second World War Two.