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Living Adventurously - an Introduction

My name is Alastair Humphreys. Back in my youth, my glory days, I spent 4 years cycling around the world. Ever since then I’ve been interested in the idea of Living A...

Learning to Slow Down and Choose Priorities - Living Adventurously #1

Claire Fuller is training to be an occupational therapist. She loves wild swimming and getting out onto the North Yorkshire moors for overnight camps. Finding the bala...

I've Never Really Noticed Things Before, Because I Haven't Looked - Living Adventurously #2

Kay Willis is the director at Beyond Boundaries, an organisation that provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities in the beautiful setting of Commonda...

Getting Older, the Benefits of Having Time, and Being Aware of your Mortality - Living Adventurously #3

Mike Bagshaw is a Lancastrian by birth and a zoologist by training. He spent his working career in education, initially indoors, but then for 30 years he worked in out...

Living Adventurously is About Trying to Not Be at Work - Living Adventurously #4

Simon Jackson launched the superb Moors One Hundred bikepacking event in North Yorkshire. He guided me around some of his favourite trails on a glorious day of summer ...

Putting Restrictions in Place Enforces Creativity - Living Adventurously #5

Tommy Banks was the youngest chef in the world to be awarded a Michelin star. The Black Swan at Oldstead was rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor in 2...

Adventure is Being Open to the Possibility of Something Changing Your Life in Ways You Can't Predict - Living Adventurously #6

Helen Mort is a busy woman. She is an award-winning poet and novelist, a runner and a climber. She has also recently become a mum which has transformed her perspective...

The Inspirations and Limitations for Women Getting into the Outdoors - Living Adventurously episode #7

Hetty Key combined her industry experience of the Outdoor / Adventure world with her academic background to investigate issues surrounding women in adventure. Hetty is...

What Stories Do You Tell Yourself About Your Barriers? - Living Adventurously #8

Sarah Lister was drifting through her twenties until a 'doorstep mile' moment of commitment saw her quit her unloved job and begin again. Today Sarah lives in a cosy c...

Living an Authentic Life is One Less Thing to Worry About

Louise McMahon is a climber, caver, diver, occasional photographer and a trans woman she/her. So says her Twitter bio, and I like the order she has chosen to list thin...

Don't stand on the edge of the diving board with your toes over the edge for hours - Living Adventurously #10

Tomo Thompson is Chief Executive of the charity Friends of the Peak District who work to safeguard the landscape of Britain’s first national park. Tomo is a retired Ar...

On Sunday night I am excited to go back to work on Monday morning - Living Adventurously 11

Jon Barton is the founder of Vertebrate Publishing. It sits at the very heart of British adventure writing and outdoor sports. Jon says that "we publish books to inspi...

We Need to Reclaim Time to Think in Our Life if we are to Do Meaningful Things - Living Adventurously #12

Sophie Stephenson was living the life she’d always wanted. She had a well-paid dream job in Australia, lived in a beautiful place and felt secure in the knowledge that...

There is a Broken Connection Between Cities and Wildness - Living Adventurously 13

Professor Ian Rotherham is an expert on a range of environmental issues, including urban wildlife, extreme weather, flooding and climate change. He has published exten...

One Thing at a Time, as Beautiful as Possible - Living Adventurously 14

Thom Barnett runs Mamnick, a clothing brand passionate about cycling. The tagline is "one thing at a time, as beautiful as possible". I cajoled Thom out of bed at earl...

"What is it that I want?" - an Adventure with a Raft and a Piano. Living Adventurously 15

Ben Cummins is on a mission to deliver a piano from Liverpool to London. On a home-made raft. That he propels himself. Within 25 years... So far it has taken Ben seven...

Going out to explore the world was not encouraged within the Pakistani community

Imran Mughal was the first British-Pakistani to cycle round the world. Over a delicious curry cooked by his mum the proud Yorkshireman told me how going out to explore...

What you don't know you can learn by doing - Living Adventurously 17

Tim Frenneaux is a former martial arts instructor and nine to fiver. He decided to return to the outdoor life that had brought him so much happiness growing up, and th...

Green Spaces are an Opportunity for People to Come Together and Connect - Living Adventurously 18

Annie Berrington is the founder of Get Out More, a social enterprise working to help people engage with nature to feel better in mind and body. She is a qualified fore...

I'm Out Of My Depth, Let's Do It // I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again. Living Adventurously 19.

Boff Whalley, from the band Chumbawamba is a keen runner, never happier than when mud-splattered and gasping up on the windy hills of West Yorkshire. He is also a play...

"I wanted to create the Runners' equivalent of a Biker Cafe." - Living Adventurously 20

Ben Dave ran a lap of Yorkshire because he needed a big challenge after running changed his life, helping him lose 30kg and stop smoking a couple of packets a day. Run...

"If I could live my life over I'd have been braver in my 20s." Living Adventurously 21

Michaela Hanna has completed IronManUK, the Lakeland50 ultra mountain marathon, cycled from Edinburgh to London and across the Western Cape of South Africa. She theref...

"Place is a repository of memory." - Living Adventurously 22

Rob Cowen is the award-winning author of Common Ground, selected as a ‘Book of the Year’ in the Times and featuring in the Guardian’s Top Ten Readers’ Choice. After ...

Trying to achieve perfection is usually a recipe for disaster. Living Adventurously 23

Brant Richards is the Co-Founder of HebTroCo which smashed Kickstarter funding targets and grew into a Made In Britain menswear brand from the ground up.

"Going blind is one of the best things that's ever happened to me." - Living Adventurously 24

Steve Bate has a condition that is slowly robbing him of his eyesight. He has now lost most of his vision, and because the condition is degenerative, Steve will go bli...

Wisdom from a Professional Sand Castle Builder - Living Adventurously 25

Jamie Wardley is a professional sand artist who creates far more than the sand castles I joked about. In his own words, "I am a mixed bag with a dose of art, a sprinkl...

Exploring takes you in Circles - Living Adventurously 26

Chris Goddard is the Yorkshire Map Maker. He has been exploring and mapping his local landscapes ever since he was a child, spurred on by curiosity and a love of being...

The Right to Feel the Wind in Your Hair - Living Adventurously 27

Theresa Robertshaw helps the elderly get back on bicycles by taking them for rides on an adapted electric tricycle. The mission of Cycling Without Age is to create hap...

"I know that I'm better than some people and not as good as other people" - Living Adventurously 28

David Oakes is an actor known for his role in "The Borgias" and Prince Ernest in the ITV show "Victoria". David also runs the Trees a Crowd podcast "for those curious ...

Four Mums in a Boat - Living Adventurously 29

'Yorkshire Rows' are four mums, friends, businesswomen who rowed 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition resulted in an intriguing variety of outcomes: th...

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