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		DAVID HUGHES BOOKS & PLAYS
		BOOKS: THE MALDONIANS Voices of Maldon 1872-1914 Hardback Published 1996 THE FAIRPORT TOUR The Internet Diary of Fairport Convention's Winter Tour 1998 Paperback Published 1998 COUGH YOUR WAY TO FITNESS The Spoof Self-Help Guide For Non-Smokers (It's Never Too Late To Start) Paperback Published 2011 Under the pseudonym of Cocker Freeman COCKER FREEMAN'S WORLD CUP DIARY Paperback Fiction Published 2011 It is the summer of 2006 when dredger/poet, Cocker Freeman, travels to Germany to tour with his friend, George Devereux, band leader and ex-midfielder with West Bromwich Albion and River Plate of Argentina. This is the Political Football Cabaret tour. This is the World Cup. MALDON: a photographic history Paperback Published 2002 by Black Horse Books for W.H.Smith Ltd Photographs from the Francis Frith Collection PLAYS: LOCAL KNOWLEDGE By David Hughes Play. First performed June 2000, The Bewick Suite, Swan Hotel, Maldon Commissioned by his local council to write a play for the Millennium, David wrote a monologue for his friend, West End actor, Stuart Rayner. The character he plays, Cocker Freeman, is a 90 year-old ex-shipwright and centre-half who tells the story of his life and gives his opinions about the town today. The play proved so popular that the production was repeated twice to full houses. A video in DVD format is available (see shop) TROUBLED WATERS by David Hughes A second one-man play, written and performed by David Hughes. First performed at a packed Maldon Town Hall on 21 June, 2005 . The character, a 95 year-old Maldon fisherman gives his views on prostate trouble and in the process touches on local themes including the centenary of Maldon's marine lake and its destruction by the District Council. Very funny! (If it wasn't so sad.) TABLO'S TOP TWENTY The third one man play, written and performed by David Hughes. Retired fisherman, Tablo Yardley is asked to bring his "desert island discs" to a live radio broadcast from Maldon Town Hall. When he gets there, the presenter has gone missing and the radio station ask him to present the programme himself. Bad move.