The second of Will Self’s takes on the general election for the Today programme can be heard here.

Will Self talks about the role of the absurd in the general election, and meets some of the heirs to Lord Sutch, here on Radio 4. He’ll be doing more of these reports for Today in the run-up to next week’s election.

Listen to Will Self at the Oxford literary festival from 2007 here.

Jason Solomons from the Guardian talks to Will Self about half-Jews and Jews on the margins – and explains why he believes that his American mother was a self-hating Jew. Listen to the Jewish Book Week podcast here.

There’s a lively Start the Week that Self took part in earlier in the week, whose guests included the geneticist Steve Jones, Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell and Charles Hazlewood. Listen to it here, or subscribe to the podcast here.

To listen to Self talking about WG Sebald on Nightwaves from January 11, try signing up to the Arts and Ideas podcast on the radio 3 website here.