The city of Herculaneum […] held its neighbors in hearty contempt, like the youth who has suddenly found his man's strength, and parades round with a chip on his shoulder.

More surprising are segments showing Mr. Bream and friends starting an evening at a pub and then repairing to his home to play jazz, and a 1962 improvisation with the sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in which Mr. Bream picks up Mr. Khan’s themes with an effortlessness and a fluency that say a lot about his musicianship.

As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.

“Why'm I here, Captain? To humiliate myself at sword practice? To go crazy thinking my best friend is a murderer? Which she's not, by the way. […]