David spent many years as a writer and sub-editor at the Daily Post and Echo. After leaving the Echo in 2009 he completed a full-length action-adventure film script titled The Glass Palace Games, set in 1860s Liverpool and London against the backdrop of John Hulley's Olympian Games and the American Civil War spies and ship-building.
He is now producing a short radio feature about Hulley as part of an MA Documentary course at Liverpool JMU.