A 13-part series In which Jeremy Slepmann recounts, with the help of letters. diaries and memoirs, the adventures iand reflections of composers abroad.
9: Dame Ethel Smyth
A huge drop of blood flew onto my cheek and I never felt nearer going mad with horror and blood-exultation. Few Europeans had ever walked in the heart of that crowd and what astonished me, was that instead of merely flushing the air with their scimitars within a foot of one's face, these frantic Orientals did not accidentally cut down the Englishwoman who presumed to mingle with them.' with Jill Balcon as Dame Ethel Smyth
Producer CATHY WEARING