RADIO CHOICE

SHOULD novels such as American Psycho, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lolita be expunged from university syllabuses? In their time, they have all been highly thought of, but now come under fierce attack for their subject matter. Abigail Williams looks at some of these controversies as she explores the power of the novel in

PRIDE OR PREJUDICE (RADIO 4, 11.30AM).

WHO stitched all the rude bits on the Bayeux Tapestry? The 70m-long piece of embroidery tells the story of the Normans’ invasion of England, but in the margins are all sorts of quaint designs, coded messages and painstakingly sewn bits of saucy subversion. The eccentric, funny drama

BAYEUX (RADIO 4, 2.15PM)

— with Katy Brand (pictured) as ex-Queen Edith and Charlie Anson as a cruel

Norman bishop — comes up with an entertaining explanation for these strange little embroidered asides.

■ THERE’S an infantry training route across the Brecon Beacons in Wales, which soldiers call the Fan Dance. It takes in the peak of Pen y Fan and, when you’re weighed down with kit and the weather is foul, it’s a tough challenge. For GONE TO EARTH (RADIO 4 EXTRA, 2.30PM), the author Horatio Clare, who grew up in the Brecon Beacons, joins a band of former soldiers as they cover the terrain and share memories of training and battlefields.