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 240 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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Escape to the Country
Jules Hudson is house-hunting in Somerset with a couple looking for a rural home that must have annexe potential for their parents.
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Today’s house hunters are preparing for a triumphant homecoming after a quarter of a century living in Sweden. Nicki Chapman guides them in their search for a perfect rural Wiltshire home.
Even though the daily commute from London to their Bedfordshire business is taking its toll, Nicki Chapman has her work cut out persuading one half of today’s couple to move to the county’s borders!
In wonderful West Yorkshire, Nicki Chapman is with a young couple from Manchester who have a budget of £270,000 to find a home in the countryside for them and their baby son.
Sonali Shah tours the East Midlands in search of a property to suit today’s buyers who, for the last 23 years, have been living in the USA.
Nicki Chapman is on the hunt for a Pembrokeshire property with a holiday let to suit a couple with very different wants and needs.
With the help of Alistair Appleton, a couple want to escape land-locked life in a Leicestershire town and relocate to a county with a coastline, either in Somerset or Devon.
Having grown out of their town flat, two newlyweds with a budget of £400,000 need Ginny Buckley’s help to find a new home in the Dorset countryside.
Jules Hudson helps a couple who have spent 16 years 'down under' and who have a budget of £450,000 to relocate to Lancashire.
Having fallen in love with Norfolk a little more with each visit, a couple have decided to make the county their forever home, and Denise Nurse is there to help them find their forever house.
Alistair Appleton helps a married couple who want to follow in his footsteps by escaping London in search of a new life in his home county of West Sussex.
Jules Hudson helps a former royal marine and retired civil servant to find their forever home in the wonderfully evocative county of Northumberland.
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
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.