Mary Portas: On Style

Radio 4, 11.30am

The Queen of Shops (right) begins a new series by looking at menswear through the ages.

She pays a visit to the V&A’s exhibition

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art Of Menswear, and speaks to awardwinning designer J.W. Anderson.

In Great Lives (Radio 4, 4.30pm) Lolita Chakrabarti celebrates actor

Ira Aldridge, who rose to fame at the height of the movement to abolish slavery and brought Shakespeare to audiences across the world.

Ian Skelly presents Afternoon Concert (Radio 3, 2pm) as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Radio Choir perform Verdi’s Requiem.