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

Nico on Jack's attitude towards Barrie - his later resentment.

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

Gerrie remembers how Barrie failed to captivate her own daughter Sylvia, as well as their son Timmy

Ian Holm asks Nico about how he got on with his brothers, which leads into a discussion about Jack, and Nico's feeling that I've been too cruel to him in the script. Rodney Bennett joins in, and although Nico seems to think I cut the objectionable lines,

Nico talking about Gerrie and the surviving copy of <i>The Boy Castaways</i>

Lord Boothby talking about Michael's literary influences. Was he a romantic? The effect that Michael's death had on just about everyone, particularly Roger Senhouse.

Gerrie remembering her engagement to Jack

Nico recounting Barrie's hat-trick at Stanway, his love of cricket, and his superb company.

Prompted by a letter from Michael to Mary Hodgson ("the most important thing in our lives in those days"), Nico tells how when Michael went to Eton he cried for the first two years "whereas I was happy from the first five minutes."

Nico on Mary Hodgson, her character and family in Morecambe

Daphne du Marier remembering Barrie taking them to the zoo after George's death.

Gerrie's account of meeting Barrie, Michael and Nico at the North British Hotel (see JMB&TLB p263)

Nico remembering how Barrie managed to evade jury duty

Nico talks about Jack's retirement, and the fate of his children.