Helen Lewis: Great Wives

Radio 4, 11pm

For two decades, Great Lives has profiled people who changed the world. In this new series, Helen Lewis (right) is instead turning the spotlight on the partners who had to live with them, including Einstein’s wife Mileva, and asking what role they played in their spouses’ success .

Interpreters On The Front Line (Radio 4, 4pm) hears from Isaac, a Glasgow-based Urdu interpreter, who explains why, when it comes to trials and police interviews, getting even one word wrong could be disastrous.

Violist Timothy Ridout performs works by Vaughan Williams in New Generation Artists (Radio 3, 4.30pm).