these authors on radio and TV this week:

Sunday 12 Dec
Radio 4
Open Book, 4pm
Annie proulx talks about her new novel, Bad Dirt

Radio 4, 4.30pm Poetry Please- Carol Ann Duffy, Coleridge, Ken Smith and Jenny Joseph

ITV1 11.05pm, The South Bank Show
Focusing on author Ruth Rendell

and World Service, 4.45am for real nightbirds; Off The Shelf, with part 6 of 10 of Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

Monday 13 Dec: Radio 4, 3.30pm
Daily short stories from Dorothy K Haynes

and Front Row, Radio 4, 7.15pm, looks at the film adaptation of Lemony Snicket's books

On Tuesday 14 Dec, poet Michael Horovitz talks about his music choices at 4pm on Radio 3

Wednesday 15 Dec brings us poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside talking about the relationship between Scottish poets and their landscape. Radio Scotland, 4.30pm

On the Book Show, BBC4, 8.30pm Colm Toibin is a guest.

Friday 17 December; the Radio 4 Afternoon Play is The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro by Paul Theroux, at 2.15pm, and later on BBC2, Newsnight (11pm) looks at the best books of the year.

That's all, folks..