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Nico agreeing with me that the end of "The Lost Boys" should be at Michael's death in 1920.

Nico describes Barrie stirring his coffee while his wife Mary remembers how her father (Lord Northbourne)used to call him "poor little man".

"However conceited or vain it may be," says Nico, "it completely made his life having these five boys"...

Nico telling how Barrie used to predict the length of a cold by how far he cough out his false tooth - only to find that the story is in "The Little White Bird". [Apologies for poor sound]

Barrie's love of games in general and cricket in particular

Nico's wife Mary's belief that it was Barrie's great stroke of luck at being "given a ready-made family"

Nico talking about Peter's three sons: Rivvy, George and Peter (jnr). All three were doing well - in 1978. Tragically, all three inherited their mother's wasting disease, Huntington's chorea, and by 1995, all three were dead: most tragically, Peter jnr,

Nico’s belief that all Michael’s letters were destroyed

Nico talking about Mary Hodgson - "a wholly unique woman. ... She was unquestionably the most important person in my life." Nico hesitates in telling a ghastly story about her - until encouraged by Sharon and I (continues on next clip)

Nico taking about Ammhuinsuidh's various owners

Nico talks about Denis Mackail, and making him cut his 1941 biography on Barrie, "The Story of JMB"

to Andrew Birkin - 1976

Boothby castigating Rupert Buxton, who drowned with Michael at Oxford. Nico didn't agree with a word Boothby said, and the obituary for Buxton in The Harrovian (in the database) paints a very different portrait to the one presented here by

Mary and Nico Llewelyn Davies in February 1976. ...

Roger Chance recalling George's adventures with Betty Hawkins