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 221 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2025.
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Escape to the Country
Sonali Shah helps a young couple who want to swap town life in Halifax for country life in the wonderful surroundings of North Yorkshire.
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The coast is a theme today as Denise Nurse helps a keen gardener move to North Yorkshire to be closer to her family and her treasured grandson.
Jonnie Irwin takes in the delights of Derbyshire with a couple of property hunters from Leeds
Series 25
Steve Brown marvels at the spectacular scenery on offer in Perth and Kinross and beyond as he helps a couple with three children to find their dream home in the countryside.
Series 23
Nicki Chapman meets two escapees who are returning home for good from Malaysia after the recent arrival of grandchildren. They want to put down new roots in the Herefordshire countryside.
Series 25
Today’s couple have enlisted the help of Briony May Williams to help them swap their busy Kent town for the great outdoors of rural Suffolk.
Series 23
With the help of her mother and Jules Hudson, a buyer from suburban Surrey is looking for a new family home with enough land to start a dog-training school in south west Wales.
Alistair Appleton guides a couple who want to switch their lives from the bustle of Bristol to the fresh country air of the Wye Valley.
A new house in the Hampshire countryside is needed for a young couple and their two dogs, and Sonali Shah is on hand to show them the best properties the county has to offer.
Series 25
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.
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.
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!
Today’s buyer is ready to fulfil a lifelong dream of moving to the Lake District, where Sonali Shah helps her explore homes in pretty villages, including a unique mystery house.
Series 22
A London couple are swapping the sound of the Bow bells for cow bells as they search for a dream home in the Derbyshire countryside.
Alistair Appleton helps an opera singer and his husband find a house with space inside to hold small concerts and a garden big enough to keep a couple of pigs.
Steve Brown is tasked with finding a new home for a couple from Spain who are returning to the UK and hoping to settle in the Shropshire or Herefordshire countryside.
Series 24
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.
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.
Series 25
Nicki Chapman is in Devon, house-hunting with a pair of entrepreneurial sisters who dream of creating their very own glamping business.
With the last of their children about to fly the nest, a couple from a Berkshire town need Jules Hudson’s help to find them a new home in Suffolk with holiday let potential.