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.