Patten said he would not supply the committee with a detailed diary setting out how many hours he spends working for the BBC.
The body of a small girl has been found in one of the hotel's water tanks, and Jon, who narrates the story through a series of diary entries, sets out to find her killer.
Ambreen Razia gives us one view in Diary of a Hounslow Girl, which sets out on tour from London's Oval House tonight.
James May's Toy Stories: The Motorcycle Diaries 9pm, BBC2 The Top Gear presenter sets out to build a motorbike and sidecar entirely out of Meccano and complete a lap of the Isle of Man's TT circuit.
But as she sets out on her journey, with a blank diary Anthony has given her, she begins to write down her story.
Myerson sets out to bring Mary Yelloly to life, tracking down descendants of the family, visiting old houses, discovering diaries and keepsakes stashed in cardboard boxes.
Alongside the photographs, Clark, who was allowed to converse with but not interview the controlled person, has included hand-written diary entries that set out his subject's mundane everyday existence.
She dreamed it up on her walks and it came to her full of form and speed, a novel, she told her diary, that might set out to enclose the human heart.
"Being so nigh," he writes in his diary, he immediately set out for Rome with some fellow English road-trippers.
Smith's fictional diary sees schoolboy Barry Loser set out to outsmart his bully Darren Darrenofski and prove that, despite his name, he is not actually a loser.
