For this week’s quiz, I thought I would again invite readers to identify peers who are pictured. However, this week there is a theme to the selection and it is, I think, much easier that last week’s. If you can identify one of the peers pictured, you can probably work out the theme and soon discover the identity of the others.
The first two readers to identify correctly the peers who are pictured will be the winners.
Baroness Rendell of Babergh
Baroness James of Holland Park
Lord Bragg
Baroness Rendell of Babergh, Baroness James of Holland Park, Lord Bragg.
Again, they appear in the reverse order in an RSS reader.
I noticed that my RSS reader had them the other way around as well.
Rendell of Babergh
James of Holland Park
Bragg
Writers?
My suggestion: From left, Baroness (Ruth) Rendell, Baroness (P. D. (Phyllis)) James, and Lord (Melvyn) Bragg. Authors (the first two, of detective novels). I hope I did the right thing by putting my suggested answer in the comments field rather than somewhere secret.
The identifications are very easy, but apart from the fact that two have been the subjects of an ITV show hosted by the other, I don’t see the connection.
Do I get anything for observing that two are Labour supporters and the other Conservative?
Congratulations to all who responded. Dave H and Jonathan were the first to supply the answers, so are this week’s winners. The pictures are indeed of three noted writers – Baroness Rendell of Babergh (Ruth Rendell), Baroness James of Holland Park (P. D. James) and Lord Bragg (Melvyn Bragg). All three literary figures, as Frank H. Little notes, did appear together on the ‘South Bank Show’, when Melvyn Bragg presented a profile of Ruth Rendell and interviewed P. D. James. He did get round at one point to recording that they all sat in the Lords!