Small Island Or Global Britain?

Radio 4, 1.45pm

Ahead of the UK hosting the latest G7 summit in Cornwall, Nick Robinson (right) considers the nation’s reputation in other countries and d asks if our time as part of one of the world’s leading powers is running out.

Octavia Bright explores the history of Bret Easton Ellis’s most controversial and famous novel in American Psycho At 30 (Radio 4, 10pm), revealing why it almost wasn’t published at all.

Nicholas Woodeson reads Book Of The Week: Young Prince Philip (Radio 4, 9.45am & 12.30am), Philip Eade’s revelatory biography charting the Duke of Edinburgh’s early life.