John Nyren tells us about one of cricket’s truly great batsmen, John Small.

Meriel Talbot’s distinguished career in government came as no surprise to those who had seen her at the wicket.

Composer Ethel Smyth starts telling the Archbishop of Canterbury a joke, and then wishes she hadn’t...

When violinist Joseph Joachim proposed a toast to the world’s greatest composer, he was cut off in mid flow.

Composer Johannes Brahms disliked the adulation sometimes heaped on him by fans, and found quite imaginative ways to avoid it.

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford recalls the very different receptions given by British and German audiences to a little bit of Brahms.