Someone has to be the raconteur, the one who shares anecdotes in a skillful, amusing and engaging manner.

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The raconteur knows how he or she is going to play the others to orchestrate the best repartee.

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But the great curator, like the great raconteur, is always two or three stories or anecdotes ahead of the rest of the table.

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Although he was a great raconteur, Duveen does not appear to have been a very inspiring or interesting man, other than when he was working.

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Like his father, he was a raconteur and a barfly.

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The poems are believed to have been recited by jongleurs (Old French for entertainers) in castles, marketplaces and at weddings, where a good raconteur would get paid for his skill at entertaining.

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More than an iconic American sportswriter, complete with his trademark fedora and stogie, the author of 80-plus books and a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame, Bert was a world-class raconteur and a loyal friend.

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Sachs is a practiced raconteur himself.

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But that was Cramer, agree his friends, an occasionally shambling presence who was also a keen observer, a raconteur, a baseball fan, a master of ceremonies. (He served the latter role at Pakenham's wedding.) Ward imagines him in another time, another place, holding court with some other witty friends.

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