Early Years
Dave Simpson has had many different careers on the road to becoming a writer. He is an ex-teacher, ward orderly, hot potato merchant, encyclopaedia salesman and a doffer in a Yorkshire mill, although writing was always his passion. He started his career in the BBC and was Resident Writer for the Library Theatre in Manchester for two years. He wrote several plays for them including The Beauty Game, The Cheeky Chappie (about the comedian Max Miller), Soapbox and A Marginal Affair. He also did several Christmas shows, including The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Secret Garden (which went on a nationwide tour), and The Little Princess (which was then adapted for BBC Radio).
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“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)