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Mike Harding was a dustman, bus conductor, road digger
and carpet-fitter before studying for a degree in Education. But teaching
could not contain his many talents, and he became a full-time entertainer,
telling the jokes and real-life stories for which he has become famous. In an
early stint in skiffle and rock bands he once shared a billing with the
Beatles! As well as appearing on television he has written travel books, short
stories and poetry. Between 1979 and 1997 he wrote no less than nine plays,
including this one.
"It's
Christmas in Margaret and Martin Duggan's house in the north of England.
Relatives they hardly ever see and who
are now very different from them arrive at the house for the festivities.
No-one receives a present that is at all appropriate. Culinary disasters
abound. Long-buried resentments rear their ugly heads as the alcohol flows and
tongues are loosened.
Then the plumbing goes wrong..."
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