Treading the boards

Lord "Flanagan" Hall and Sir David "Allen" Clementi sashay in front of the Lords Select Committee on Communications next Tuesday afternoon.

It might not be too rough. Members include Baroness (Floella) Benjamin; Lord (Charles) Allan, former boss of Granada and ITV; Baroness (Jane) Bonham-Carter, mother of Newsnight's UK Editor Katie Razzall; Baroness (Beeban) Kidron, film director who cut her teeth with the BBC; and Viscount (Charles) Colville, who worked directly for the BBC for 20 years and is still pitching documentaries;