Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Welsh Ladies RADIO 4, 4.30PM

Old images of Welsh women dressed in traditional costume – tall black hat, apron and shawl – gaze out mysteriously from black-and-white vintage postcards. They’re posed in stereotypically Welsh scenes: playing the harp, for instance, or spinning wool, or taking tea. The poet Mab Jones finds poems and stories written by Welsh women and looks at them from an intimate human angle: who were these stiffly posed and mute ladies, and what were their lives really like? And might those lives even continue in Wales today?

Looking for Oil Drum Lane RADIO 4, 7.15PM

Two of the great comedy writers of the Fifties, Alan Galton and Ray Simpson, have their comedy writing partnership dramatised in this snappily arranged play. New writing by Ian Pearce is interspersed with archival recordings of the original comedies, and tells the story of how Galton and Simpson, who met in a tuberculosis sanatorium and began broadcasting on hospital radio, went from working with Tony Hancock to developing Steptoe and Son. Sadly, Galton and Simpson have both died in the last two years; this is a glorious celebration of their heyday

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