Brierly Hill 90210

As you look back on life, there are key points that you didn't recognize at the time because, of course, you can't know their significance on what is to come. This episode and the year of 1995 is, for me, such a moment of great personal change. You'll hear this in the stories and an accompanying soundtrack from both sides of the Atlantic. I started the year in Dudley in the British West Midlands but took a temporary work assignment in Chicago, in the American Mid West. My work permit only allowed a 3-month stay so I had to return for the summer back in the UK. My company opened an office in New Jersey (in the American North East) so it was back state-side in the fall. But, having to go where the work was, I was hustled off to my next assignment on the west coast, just north of Los Angeles. I was flying back to New Jersey every other week, getting myself an appartment and a life sorted out. To give you an idea of scale, that internal American flight from west coast to east coast is further than from America