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Nico, on how he would have loved to have been an actor, and how Barrie fobade him joining the OUDS at Oxford

Daphne and Angela du Maurier remembering Michael, Peter and Nico

Gerrie on Jack calling Barrie "the Bart"

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 on Jack's attitude towards Barrie - his later resentment.

Gerrie remembers how Barrie failed to captivate her own daughter Sylvia, as well as their son Timmy

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 talking about Gerrie and the surviving copy of <i>The Boy Castaways</i>

Lord Boothby talking about Michael's literary influences. Was he a romantic? The effect that Michael's death had on just about everyone, particularly Roger Senhouse.

Gerrie remembering her engagement to Jack

Nico recounting Barrie's hat-trick at Stanway, his love of cricket, and his superb company.

Prompted by a letter from Michael to Mary Hodgson ("the most important thing in our lives in those days"), Nico tells how when Michael went to Eton he cried for the first two years "whereas I was happy from the first five minutes."

Nina Boucicault talking about Barrie to the BBC in 1937

Nico on Mary Hodgson, her character and family in Morecambe

Daphne du Marier remembering Barrie taking them to the zoo after George's death.