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Great Move North

Great Move North

Written by: Tony Maguire
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The north-south divide has gone. Great Move North meets the people who chose to step across the divide to build new lives in the north – and asks: why did they do it? What is it really like to make the move? Find out more at the Great Move North website - https://www.greatmovenorth.com/© 2025 Great Move North Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Self-Help Social Sciences Success
Episodes
  • Stuart Morris: Swapping the M4 rush and roar for space, silence - and the formula for Living the One in a Million Life...
    Jul 17 2025

    When you are looking to find yourself in a world that’s all just got a bit too much; or when you lead a corporate team unsure of your core purpose, maybe one thing you might want do is get lost…on Malham Moor; and maybe there you’ll find a man, and a dog, with insights and answers.

    Find out more at the Great Move North website - https://www.greatmovenorth.com/

    Produced by Tony Maguire.

    Recorded and edited by Tom Haigh.

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    27 mins
  • Iain & Julia Graham: 'Forget Hackney - this family took a lifechanging decision & decided to grasp The Nettle'
    Jul 3 2025

    Despite everything, many insist it’s the best city in the world… so why, with great reputations in the cut-throat worlds of food, events and design, would anyone leave London’s endless buzz for the quiet lanes and fields of Yorkshire’s Dales? Simple. Just look ahead - to the horizon…

    Find out more at the Great Move North website - https://www.greatmovenorth.com/

    Produced by Tony Maguire.

    Recorded and edited by Tom Haigh.

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    24 mins
  • Philip Caine: 'Drama & danger in the oilfield war zones or Dubai glitz? None compared to Cumbria'
    Nov 3 2023

    He ought to have followed everyone else into a job at the huge shipyard, but Philip chose kitchen work, then catering and hotel management. Next? mega moves and mayhem; life-threatening steps in an astonishing globe-trotting career worthy of a best-selling thriller writer. Yet none was fiction, so he decided to write it himself. Meet author Philip Caine; sometime KGB negotiator, global oil’s go-to fixer – and the man who turned his back on Dubai’s high-life…for an overlooked corner of the Lakes.

    Find out more at the Great Move North website - https://www.greatmovenorth.com/

    Produced by Tony Maguire.

    Recorded and edited by Tom Haigh.

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    31 mins
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