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 2024. A total of 236 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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Escape to the Country
Sonali Shah goes house-hunting in Norfolk with a buyer who has holidayed there throughout her life and now wants to make the county her home
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Today’s escapees want to raise their children near the sea, so Jules Hudson takes them to view a selection of wonderful homes in the Devon and Dorset countryside.
Nicki Chapman helps an animal-loving house hunter from Oxfordshire find a new village community in Dorset, ideally close to the coast.
Sonali Shah helps a couple from the largest town in Dorset to escape the urban sprawl and kick-start their property search so that they can establish a new country life in Devon.
The devoted owners of no fewer than six Irish wolfhounds are in desperate need of more space for them and those countless muddy paws, so have set their sights on Suffolk for a bit more elbow room.
Nicki Chapman helps her buyer’s dream of moving to North Yorkshire become a reality. She also meets a painter who has set up a rural retreat for other like-minded artists.
Steve Brown meets a couple who are looking to retire from the Buckinghamshire commuter belt to a new home on the majestic Isle of Wight.
A newly engaged couple from Cheshire want to buy their first home together in rural Northumberland, where Jules Hudson is on hand to help.
Briony May Williams is in rural Herefordshire, helping a couple who are looking to buy their first home together where they can finally get their collection of potted plants in the ground.
In north Wales, Jules Hudson helps a buyer turn a favourite holiday destination into his forever home by finding a dog-friendly house with rural walks on the doorstep.
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.
May 2025
Steve Brown is today's property guide as a couple who have recently returned from Bermuda look for a new country home.
The ladies are on tour in Somerset and Dorset today, where Briony May Williams helps a buyer from London, with her daughter in tow for support, to realise the dream of a new life in the country
The focus is firmly on Wiltshire today as Jonnie Irwin helps a couple from London with a £550k budget to make a life-changing rural move to this beautiful county.
Three generations of the same family need help from Jules Hudson to find them a new, rural Norfolk home with an annexe for Granny and enough land for a Shetland pony.
A first-time buyer has decided to leave the home she grew up in on the outskirts of Birmingham for a new one in the nearby Shropshire countryside.
Steve Brown is with a buyer who is hoping to find a new house in her childhood home county of Devon. He also visits an organic orchard that produces award-winning cider.
A couple of Brighton seek a complete change of scenery with a move to the beautiful countryside of Fife.
Having almost made their escape seven years ago, today’s couple want to try again, tasking Ginny Buckley to help them move from a Surrey town to the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
Nicki Chapman helps today's buyer escape her ex-council flat in south London and begin a new life in the Wiltshire countryside. Nicki also visits a trout farm.