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 August 2025.
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Escape to the Country
Jules Hudson helps a rock-climbing couple from an East Midlands town look for a new home in the hills and dales of North Yorkshire. Jules also attends the Great Yorkshire Show.
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Briony May Williams helps a couple move from Belfast to Herefordshire to be closer to their family.
Series 25
In his home county of Kent, Steve Brown helps two newlyweds from London find a new, spacious and dog-friendly family home in the countryside.
Wanting to move to a quieter village than where they currently live, today’s couple have tasked Denise Nurse to find them a new home in the Hampshire or Wiltshire countryside.
After 15 years living and working in Dubai, two expats want to return home to the UK and need Sonali Shah’s help to find them a new home in wonderful West Sussex.
Series 26
Jules Hudson helps two retired drama teachers swap busy Sheffield for a new rural life in the beautiful Devon countryside.
Series 25
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
Today’s couple are newly retired, newly engaged, and with the help of Briony May Williams, are now looking for a new home surrounded by North Yorkshire’s spectacular countryside.
Series 23
Ginny Buckley helps a retired couple find a new home in Suffolk, as close to the coast as their £475,000 budget will allow.
Alistair Appleton meets a couple who want to relocate closer to their daughter, who has already made the move to the Cumbrian countryside.
Series 26
A couple from suburban Cheshire discover that stunning views don't have to cost a fortune as Sonali Shah finds them a home on Argyll and Bute’s Kintyre peninsula for a £250,000 budget.
Jules Hudson takes in Scotland’s stunning Cairngorms as he helps a couple from the Isle of Wight find a rural property that will fulfil their ambitions for both a new home and a new business.
With ambitions to start a cookery school in Shropshire, a couple from Hertfordshire get a helping hand from Nicki Chapman to spend £900,000 on a new home for their new life in the country.
Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk with a couple from Northamptonshire who have lived and worked all over the world. They want a property with the wow factor and spectacular views to boot.
Sonali Shah meets a couple from a Surrey town who want to escape to the Welsh Borders for a quieter pace of life.
Jules Hudson joins a couple in their search for their perfect retirement retreat in the Cornish countryside on a budget of £400,000.
It’s the call of home that’s luring today’s couple to head to the beautiful landscape of South Yorkshire, and Alistair Appleton is supporting them on their house-hunting journey.
Series 24
With a budget of £400,000, an ambitious young couple from the West Midlands has the help of Sonali Shah to find a renovation project and a couple of acres of land in the Welsh Borders.
Sonali Shah is welcoming back two returning expats, after 20 years in America. They have a £950k budget for a spacious country home in the New Forest.
Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to return to their Welsh homeland after 20 years of living in Oxford.