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Nico and his wife Mary came to BBC Television Centre just before we started rehearsals on "The Lost Boys" in January 1978, and spent several hours talking to both cast and crew. Here he emphasizes Barrie’s sense of wit and humour ...

Nico talking to actress Maureen O’Brien about to play Mary Barrie

Nico retelling Barrie's joke about a man falling out of a window...

The so-called "Peter Pan" gravestones in Kensington Gar...

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

Nico remembering how Barrie managed to evade jury duty

Mary prompting Nico on Barrie's macabre humour

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...

Nico talking about Barrie's many male friends, from Robert Falcon Scott to Bernard Freyberg VC

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

to Andrew Birkin - 1977

to Andrew Birkin - 1976

Michael Llewelyn Davies' poem, "Throned on a cliff", re...