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Nico telling how Barrie used to predict the length of a cold by how far he cough out his false tooth - only to find that the story is in "The Little White Bird". [Apologies for poor sound]

Barrie's love of games in general and cricket in particular

Nico's wife Mary talking about Michael.

Nico talking about Peter's three sons: Rivvy, George and Peter (jnr). All three were doing well - in 1978. Tragically, all three inherited their mother's wasting disease, Huntington's chorea, and by 1995, all three were dead: most tragically, Peter jnr,

BBC radio's centenary programme: "Peter Pan Takes Flight", broadcast on 23 December 2004

Nico showing us the "Record of Breaks" between Michael and Barrie, recorded in the front of "The Complete Billiard Player" in 1912 (see margin illustration in JMB&TLB, p197)

Nico’s belief that all Michael’s letters were destroyed

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

Nico emphasizing Barrie's love of games, in particular, "eggcap" ...

Nico talking about Mary Hodgson - "a wholly unique woman. ... She was unquestionably the most important person in my life." Nico hesitates in telling a ghastly story about her - until encouraged by Sharon and I (continues on next clip)

Nico remembering Mary Rose's island - "far too small to land on". Not so - Sharon and I did just that in 1978, though admittedly there was barely room for the pair of us - see photos in the database.

Nico describes Barrie's occasional moods, and the hope that he'd be in a good one when bringing a friend back to the Adelphi

Nico talks about Denis Mackail, and making him cut his 1941 biography on Barrie, "The Story of JMB"

Nico showing us Frohman's gift to Michael, aged 13: a book on cricket, with "Admit Two to the Duke of Yorks" written in Frohman's blue penicl on the title page.

Nico's wife Mary regarding Michael as a highbrow