Finding Power to go an extra Furlong; Philip Key discovers that Liverpool life is the stuff of top comedies, according to two local writers.(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: August 29, 2003 | Copyright information

IT'S best to be careful when you are talking anywhere near Liverpool writers Jimmy Power and Tony Furlong. Anything you say may be taken down and used in a play.

``Oh, we're always listening,'' laughs Jimmy Power, the beefy,bald-headed one of the duo. ``You can pick up some good lines that way.''

Power is in a good position to overhear funny lines, running his own pub, The Deyesbrook in West Derby. It may be no coincidence that one of the plays the two friend...

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