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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)

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

Roger Chance recalling George's adventures with Betty Hawkins

Gerrie's account of Mary Hodgson slipping a certain note under Jack's bedroom door

Gerrie remembering the extraordinary episode of Barrie telling her about Uncle Guy [du Maurier]'s death in 1915.

Gerrie's impression that Barrie liked her.

Gerrie's reaction to Mary Hodgson's note, "Either you leave or I do" ...

Gerrie remembering how Mary Hodgson angered Jack by destroying his collection of smutty stories!

Gerrie's reaction to my belief that Michael's death was an accident.

An edited version of BBC-TV's Nationwide, recorded while I was writing "The Lost Boys" in the summer of 1977, and broadcast that Christmas. The chief interest in the recording is Nico's contribution, as well as a short account of the Barrie/Llewelyn

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

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