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Nico on Barrie's "tremendous move into snobbery", largely on account of Eton and Cynthia Asquith

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."

Looking at a photocopy of Barrie's passport, giving his height as 5' 3.5", Nico remembers his delight while at Eton that Barrie could never have got into tails

Nico talks about Mary Rose's island - "the closest thing to my heart." (The database includes a number of photos I took of the island in 1976 - on Loch Voshimid in the Outer Hebrides. Just search for "mary rose")

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's conviction that Barrie "had no sexual interest of any sort or kind. He was 100% neuter and 100% innocent, I'm absolutely certain of it."

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

Nico remembering how Barrie managed to evade jury duty

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

Nico recalling how Barrie could determine the severity of an on-coming cold by how far his false tooth flew across the room when he coughed!

Nico on Barrie's humour, with an example from "My Confession Book" (among the treasures to be sold at Sotheby's)

Producer Louis Marks questioning Nico about Barrie's cough

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