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

Nico rhapsodising about "Rosy Rapture" and sitting on Gaby Deslys' knee.

Nico stressing Barrie's sense of humour (with promptings from his wife Mary) while giving an imitation of how he'd rock from side to side while stirring his coffee. His macabre humour so often misunderstood - or missed altogether.

Nico on Michael being "close to a genius"

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

Nico's criticism of Janet Dunbar's biography ["J M Barrie: the Man Behind the Image", 1970] that it fails to communicate Barrie's humour and what wonderful company he was 99% of the time.

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

Nico’s classic story about Barrie giving the rights of "Peter Pan" to Great Ormond Street Hospital. According to the Hospital, parts of it should be taken with a large pinch of salt.

Director Rodney Bennett asking Nico about Barrie's two "butlers", Harry Brown and Frank Thurston. Nico again tells the story of losing his tortoise in Campden Hill Square - and Harry Brown miraculously finding it.

Nico talking to Rodney Bennett about Mary Hodgson

Nico remarking on the fact that he never once heard Barrie talking about his mother (Margaret Ogilvy), even when he took Nico and Michael to Kirriemuir.

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 remembering his mother to Ann Bell (who played Sylvia) and Rodney Bennett

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 suggesting that Sharon and I visit Lord (Bob) Boothby: "I think a pretty ghastly fellow, but he had an absolute worship of Michael" ...!