Ruth Rendell answers questions and reads from her 2008 novel Portobello at West End Books in Hampstead.

Leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected. Ruth Rendell's choice is Many Dimensions by Charles Williams.

A visit to the Handel House Museum at 25 Brook Street in London's Mayfair. The 250th anniversary of Handel's death is being marked by a new exhibition - Handel Reveal'd, offering new insights into the composer's character and personal life. John Wilson paid a visit with conductor Christopher Hogwood CBE and crime writer and Handel fan, Ruth Rendell.

The No.1 Ladies' Favourite Radio Show, broadcasting live from Kgale Hill, the home of the The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Presenter Solomon Modumo discusses ideas and myths from Botswana such as the gift of turning oneself into an animal to survive in the bush, exploring the way a bushman can track a person in the desert, and enlightening us as to why baboons do not fear women.

'Did you feel that Jessica Fletcher on Murder She Wrote was you?'

Ruth Rendell talks to Stephanie Merritt (Hay - 2007). The great psychological thriller and crime writer discusses her work.

Ruth Rendell talks to John Mullan about The Keys to the Street, the importance of place and the difference between detective stories and more uneasy thrillers.