George Murphy - Hot Times in Calderdale

‘Author of Hippy Valley and Murphy’s Lore and classic and original folktales for young readers in Africa (with one hundred and thirty five thousand sales) George Murphy brings together new writing and mixed strands of his earlier work to focus on the greatest challenge of our age: a tale of Global Warming in a near future but set around here.

George Murphy is a performance storyteller who began writing and performing comic monologues for adults after his retirement. People across the North of England (and as far south as Nottingham, have paid to laugh at George's comic monologues and songs which he sometimes performs alongside Rod Dimbleby in The Rod and George Show. George retired from a long and varied career, having served time in an Education Think Tank, done research for BBC Scotland, been lead singer in a rock band, a chorister in G&S productions and having built up…