Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents, the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit and townscape of abandoned mills and shipyards, the detritus of an industrial revolution past its sell by date...
That, anyway, is the myth, the foundation of the dismissive gibe that nothing north of Watford is worth a bag of chips.
This and other myths are swiftly dispatched in True North - an incisive and wittily observant assessment of a socially and culturally flourishing region in an unrivalled setting of wild coastline, lakes and green dales inhabited by indomitably inventive northerners, proud of their past and forging a future of brilliant new enterprises.
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