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"However conceited or vain it may be," says Nico, "it completely made his life having these five boys"...

... 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

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

Barrie making a speech at Kirriemuir in June 1930, and recounting how as a child he had split the lip of his best friend, James Robb. "We were digging up a gooseberry bush in his mother’s garden, and I missed it, but I got him. We then bolted in opposite

Barrie making a speech at the unveiling of Thomas Hardy's statue in Dorchester, 2 September 1931: "Well ladies and gentlemen, you mustn’t make any noise, or the weather will find out that something untoward has happened. When the child Hardy was born, the

Barrie's "tremendous flirtation" with American review, resulting in "Hello Ragtime" which Nico saw 20 times!

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

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

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

Daphne and Angela du Maurier remembering Michael, Peter and Nico

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

Daphne remembering Michael's nightmares – how he thought he saw people coming in through the window, "and this could tie up with Peter Pan."