A UK based freelance writer, living and working in the Liverpool area, Dave Rice's work has appeared in numerous UK journals and magazines. Dave has been keeper of the authorised Michael J Bird Tribute website since July 2002. Since then he has been campaigning to get Bird's work released on DVD so that it can be enjoyed by a wider audience. In addition to "The Lotus Eaters", during the 1970s and 80s Michael Bird created "Who Pays the Ferryman?", "The Aphrodite Inheritance", "The Dark Side of the Sun" and "Maelstrom" for the BBC and several productions for Yorkshire Television in the mid 1980s. In July 2006, when his files were found to be more comprehensive than those at the BBC, Dave was commissioned to write the sleeve notes and 16 page booklet to accompany the BBC release on DVD of The Lotus Eaters. In 2009 Dave was invited to contribute to a book on the relationship between Greece and Britain since 1945 published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.