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Nico retelling Barrie's joke about a man falling out of a window...

The so-called "Peter Pan" gravestones in Kensington Gar...

Nico retelling Barrie's classic macabre joke, "Mind that post", which I used in "The Lost Boys"...

Nico remembering how Barrie managed to evade jury duty

Mary prompting Nico on Barrie's macabre humour

Nico's creepy story about Barrie seeing his ex-wife Mary while driving through a village in 1922. Apologies for the cross-currents of other conversations - the wine is in full flood by this stage

Nico talking about "The Lost Boys" scripts (I must have been out of earshot) ...

Nico instructing director Rodney Bennett on how Barrie managed to stick stamps on the ceilings of the various houses he visited...

Nico talking about Barrie's many male friends, from Robert Falcon Scott to Bernard Freyberg VC

Nico's classic story about Thomas Hardy being mistaken for a reporter at a rehearsal of Mary Rose and being unceremoniously evicted...

Nico on Barrie's humour, with an example from "My Confession Book" (among the treasures to be sold at Sotheby's)

Nico and his wife Mary came to BBC Television Centre just before we started rehearsals on "The Lost Boys" in January 1978, and spent several hours talking to both cast and crew. Here he emphasizes Barrie’s sense of wit and humour ...

Ian Holm as Sir James Barrie in the BBC-TV trilogy, "Th...

Norma Douglas-Henry was the sister of Josephine ('Dauphine') Mitchell-Innes, George's fiancee in 1914. I met her rather late in the day, while we were shooting "The Lost Boys", but managed to include her recollections of George in JMB&TLB. Here she

Norma Douglas-Henry remembering Michael's death