Great Move North

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/

Episode Date
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
Iain & Julia Graham: 'Forget Hackney - this family took a lifechanging decision & decided to grasp The Nettle'
Jul 03, 2025
Philip Caine: 'Drama & danger in the oilfield war zones or Dubai glitz? None compared to Cumbria'
Nov 03, 2023
Maggie Massam: 'West Coast highlife or Whitehall mandarin? I ditched both for fieldwork in the Dales'
Oct 27, 2023
Laker & Lane: 'London to Paris? TV or film studio? We both left all that for a lifechanging makeover'
Oct 06, 2023
Michael Manaley: 'In London sirens woke me, then sad faces on the Tube. Now? Silence. And glimpses of deer near my office'
Sep 29, 2023
Laura Glanfield: 'I just missed out being crowned Queen of the Desert, but to my new best friends I'm Queen of the Dales!'
Jun 03, 2022
Margaret Brenchley: 'I worked at Heathrow but my heart never left the Hodder Valley'
May 26, 2022
Ayme Harrison: 'I've left America's Sunshine State to gaze across Morecambe Bay'
May 19, 2022
Steve Ward: 'I left the New World to join a different league - and now I’m building a future in the Ancient World'
May 12, 2022
Andrea Ward: 'I slipped on some truly special shoes to take a long, nighttime, walk to freedom'
May 05, 2022
Julie and Martin Carrick: 'We worked out in the city and looked fit but we were too fat. It was time to move...everything!'
Apr 28, 2022
Andy Mouncey, Doing Big and Scary: 'I raced from London to Paris - then found the toughest challenge of my life behind bars'
Oct 15, 2021
Lizzie Kaye, Cast Iron Books: 'It was time to get off my bike for a new life away from London'
Oct 08, 2021
Kay Backhouse, Sydney's: 'I had to make my big move when I read his hidden message'
Oct 01, 2021
Keith Mothersdale, Chief Technical Officer: 'My scorching broadband speed left my desk too hot to handle'
Sep 25, 2021
Ali Priestley, Craftopia: ‘Alone and fearful in South America my laptop surfing set me free’
Sep 17, 2021
Tanya Carter, Limestone Books: 'My winning formula? Easy: bras, beer & books'
Sep 10, 2021