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Daphne remembering Michael's nightmares – how he thought he saw people coming in through the window, "and this could tie up with Peter Pan."

Gerrie talking about Michael's death at the time of her own pregnancy.

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's relationship with Peter

Jack's attitude towards Barrie

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

Nico reminiscing about Barrie’s "manservant" Harry Brown, a guided tour through Adelphi Terrace, and an amusing story about Harry Brown and Maggie Barrie’s son, the chess champion Willie Winter. Not for the scatalogically faint-hearted...

Nico on Frank Thurston (Barrie's butler)

Sebastian Earl on Michael's lack of girl-friends at Oxford being "perfectly normal".

Gerrie on Peter and Vera Willoughby - "she had a daughter who was older than Peter"

Barrie making a speech at the unveiling of Thomas Hardy's statue in Dorchester, 2 September 1931: "Well ladies and gentlemen, you mustn’t make any noise, or the weather will find out that something untoward has happened. When the child Hardy was born, the

Nico talks about Mary Rose's island - "the closest thing to my heart." (The database includes a number of photos I took of the island in 1976 - on Loch Voshimid in the Outer Hebrides. Just search for "mary rose")

Nico talks about visiting Mary Hodgson's family in Morecambe, her brother Tom introduced him to music hall - Mary Hodgson's horror

Peter Pan was revived annually from 1905 until World War 2, when the blitz was deemed too dangerous a risk for young audiences (most of whom had been evacuated). In order to fill the gap, Jean Forbes-Robertson consented to record her 1929 performance.

Gerrie discussing gossip surrounding Barrie and the boys.