Rachel Parris: Austensibly y Feminist

Radio 4, 7.15pm

Had she been alive today, what would author Jane Austen have been getting up to? That’s s the question comedy dy star Parris (right) tries ies to answer in this stand-up and up special recorded in front of a live but virtual audience.

Faye Marsay stars in the title role in Drama: Hardy’s Women: Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Radio 4, 3pm), a new three-part adaptation of the novel told from the point of view of the impoverished Dorset woman.

Drama On 3: The Last Of The Volsungs (Radio 3, 7.30pm) is a powerful dramatisation of an Icelandic saga involving love and loss.