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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...

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

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

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

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" ...

Roger Chance recalling George's adventures with Betty Hawkins

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

... until the last holiday on Eilean Shona, with Michael in 1920, which Barrie again rented for Nico's honeymoon with Mary in 1926. Sharon and I visited it in 1976 ... and I stayed there for three magical days with Karen in 2001, a week before my son Anno

Nico agreeing with me that the end of "The Lost Boys" should be at Michael's death in 1920.

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