You would have no shortage of conversation topics with James! I'm certain he would have views on von Wittke's first name, and the nude practices of muscular bee-keeping monks, and Schiller. On the last: is this your (our) James? https://www.jstor.org/stable/3208336?seq=1. This source would suggest it is: http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/maxwell-james.php -- and further, that together with an astonishing facility with German, your man played Don Karlos' Grand Inquisitor at the Royal Exchange in 1987. Now that would have been a story and a half.

All right, fine, you also have some Doctors in there, but they're rather more predictable - - some banter, some weird occurrences, and then, "Run!"