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

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

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

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

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

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