John Arlott and Jonathan Meades

A pleasing trivial connection from Meades' An Encyclopaedia of Myself:

My mother once mentioned (parenthetically, forgetfully) that when she was a probationary teacher at Basingstoke in the early Thirties and he was a policeman, she had known John Arlott 'quite well'. This might have meant anything. It probably meant no more than her having 'gone to a couple of dances' with the young Hugh Casson, whom she had met through his father, University College Southampton's rowing coach.