Today, 6 Nov:

Radio 4, 7pm
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

Twenty Minutes, Radio 3, 8.50pm
The novels of Giorgio Bassani, author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Channel 4, 11.10pm
Apocalypse Now, film based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

7 Nov:

ITV1, 3.55pm
A new version of the Railway Children

Radio 4, 4pm
Bookclub; Pat Barker discusses her novel Regeneration

Radio 4, 7.45pm
Helen Dunmore's short story 'Emily's Ring', taken from collection Ice Cream

8 Nov:

Radio 4, 9am
Start The Week
Books discussed include the Pope In Winter by John Cornwell, The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, and Mezaterra by Ahdaf Soueif

9 Nov:
Radio 4, 7.15pm
New of the shortlists for this year's Whitbread book awards

Channel 4, 10.45am
Gift of the Gab: Glenn Patterson on Ireland's writers.

10 Nov:

Channel 4, 9.55am
Arrows of Desire: A look at the diversity of English poetry

BBC2, 11.20am
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Film of Orwell's book

12 Nov:
Radio 4, 11pm
George Orwell, by DJ Taylor

Thanks, Anna!