RADIO CHOICE

■ NICOLA ADAMS, the Olympic gold medallist — and Britain’s most successful female boxer — uses music to help her to train, and plays Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite to keep her calm when she’s driving. Each morning this week, Nicola (pictured) joins KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) to talk about her life and her sport, and to pick her Tracks Of My Years.

■ WORKING with computers was seen, until the Seventies, as women’s work. Around 80 per cent of those employed in this new industry were female, and it was viewed as a career with no long-term prospects. One freelance programmer, making good money, had her tax return queried by the Inland Revenue, who assumed that if she was earning that kind of income working from home, she must be a prostitute. In A JOB FOR THE BOYS (RADIO 4,