Extreme Wives With Kate Humble

This fascinating documentary series sees Kate Humble explore three diverse communities in Kenya, Israel and India to see first-hand the roles of women in societies that are radically different from our own. In rural southwest Kenya, the Kuria people are polygamous, so men marry a number of wives. But they also practice woman-to-woman marriage known as Nyumba Mboke. These aren’t sexual, and the young Nyumba Mboke wives become pregnant by men outside of the household, or come to the family already having had a child. While spending time with a Kuria family, Humble meets women who have been subject to female genital mutilation (FGM), which is endemic in the community despite being illegal and learns of the efforts of some to try and stop the practice.

Friday, BBC2, 9pm