Beta Female Radio 4, 11.30am

Amna Saleem’s sitcom about a young Asian woman struggling to have her cultural differences acknowledged returns for a second run. Amna (Kiran

Sonia Sawar, right) is left alone to look after her father (Bhasker Patel) for the day.

In the second episode of The Poet And The Echo (Radio 4, 3.45pm) Matthew Zajac reads Harry Josephine Giles’ The Grey Eagle. It tells a story of transformation, discovery and friendship through the streets of Venice and the hills of Scotland.

In this week’s The Verb (Radio 3, 10pm), Ian McMillan is joined by

Carl Phillips and Yomi Sode to consider narratives surrounding liberation.