To watch Will Self on last night’s Question Time along with Carol Vorderman, the Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, London Mayor Boris Johnson and Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams, visit the BBC iplayer here. The Question Time website has the clip about Jon Venables that partly accounted for the fact that “Will Self” and “Carol Vorderman” were trending topics on Twitter last night. (And, no, for those of you still asking, Will Self does not tweet, though he does have a Twitter feed to this site.)

To read James Macintyre’s blog about Vorderman’s appearance, visit the New Statesman here.

You can watch Will Self on the BBC’s Daily Politics show here until Monday Feb 15. Subjects include climatology research, Alastair Campbell’s emoting and the MPs expenses scandal.

Watch Will Self and Jay McInerney talking about the legacy of JD Salinger, who died on Wednesday, on Newsnight.

Will Self appears very, very briefly in BBC2’s Newsnight at 30, available to watch until Saturday. Guests on the panel include Martin Amis, Jarvis Cocker and Tracey Emin. Worth watching alone for Charles Wheeler’s complaint to camera that “I’ve got Ian Smith coming in my ear”.

The Noughties – Was That It? is on tonight at 9pm on BBC3, a two-part documentary that Will Self has contributed to. Self’s thoughts on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code can be found at the 42 minute mark.