Escape to the Country
Escape to the Country is a living & home improvement program on BBC2. A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. The popular program has been available since 2023. A total of 155 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2024.
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Escape to the Country
A couple from Worcestershire have Alistair Appleton on hand to help them find the perfect home in Cornwall.
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Sonali Shah meets a couple from a Surrey town who want to escape to the Welsh Borders for a quieter pace of life.
Denise Nurse helps a couple swap their Cheshire townhouse for the dark skies and beautiful open spaces of Shropshire.
With a budget of £400,000, Jules Hudson is on hand to make a Sydney couple's dream of an escape to Aberdeenshire come true.
Today’s buyers don’t mind if they find a new home in Hampshire or Dorset, just as long as it’s near their happy place, the sea. Denise Nurse is there to put a smile on their faces!
Nicki Chapman’s buyers are already renting in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside, but they need Nicki’s help to find them a house of their own, with space for a holiday let.
Jules Hudson helps a couple find a property in rural Norfolk that can serve as a luxury holiday let business.
Looking for a new adventure in south west Wales, today’s couple have £400,000 to find a new home with at least an acre of land for glamping and a forestry school.
Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to lay down roots in Devon after decades serving in the army.
Returning home after eight years of living and working in Abu Dhabi, two teachers want to swap desert sand for the beaches of East Sussex.
Ginny Buckley’s buyer today is chasing an inspiring landscape. She wants a new Carmarthenshire home that has as much land as her £450,000 budget can muster.
Jules Hudson helps a couple in their search for the perfect West Country pad in Devon and finds out why the county’s north coast has been designated as the UK’s first and only World Surfing Reserve.
Hoping to escape to the dramatic countryside of north Wales, Jules Hudson’s buyers want to find a new home with at least an acre of land where they can create a wellbeing retreat.
A musical couple from London need Steve Brown’s help to unearth a new home in the Oxfordshire countryside. On the £950,000 shopping list is a detached property with space for a studio.
Steve Brown helps a couple from Hertfordshire find their forever home in Cornwall. The trio also meet a local ceramicist and take part in a pottery throwdown.
Having fallen head over heels in love with North Yorkshire, a retired teacher and her pet bunny Gary need Nicki Chapman’s help with finding a new home for £450k.
A young couple from London have £325,000 to spend on a new rural home, and it’s Sonali Shah who is leading the search in the Monmouthshire countryside.
Three generations of one family want to move to the East Midlands, and the task of finding a new home for them all has fallen on Mum, Grandma and Ginny Buckley.
Today’s buyer needs Alistair Appleton’s help to find a new home in Suffolk, where Alistair also meets a couple who have established a beautiful, biodiverse wildflower meadow.
Sonali Shah helps a couple returning to the UK from the USA with their two young children find a new countryside home.