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Norma Douglas-Henry talks about George, Josephine and Michael

Part 1 of Sheridan Morley's superb interview with Nico Llewelyn Davies, recorded in September 1978 and broadcast by the BBC on Radio 4. My gratitude to Sheridan for allowing me to share it on this site. As the programme lasted 30 minutes, I've divided it

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

Nico describes Mary Rose's island, and remembers standing with Barrie when he first had the idea for the play in 1912. See JMB&TLB p206 - or in colour in the photo gallery.

Elisabeth Bergner remembers Barrie visiting the film set of "As You L:ike It", and how his cough caused endless retakes ...

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

Nico's classic story about Thomas Hardy being mistaken for a reporter at a rehearsal of Mary Rose and being unceremoniously evicted...

Nico's love of music and playing the piano, unlike his brothers. His story of going off with Michael to buy their first gramophone records ...

Gerrie Llewelyn Davies (Jack's widow) talking about Nico

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 telling Maureen O'Brien (who played Mary Barrie in "The Lost Boys") how Sharon and I first swam into his life...

Lord Boothby seeing Barrie after Michael's death

Jean Forbes-Robertson in the 1940 recording of "Peter Pan" - Act 3: The Underground Home

Part 2 of Sheridan Morley's interview with Nico Llewelyn Davies, recorded in September 1978.

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.