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 2025. A total of 238 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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Escape to the Country
In West Yorkshire, Steve Brown supports an artist who is looking to leave London to realise her ambition of living life in the countryside.
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Ginny Buckley helps a theatre couple swap London life for a West Yorkshire home with rural sparkle and then meets a family who started a bold new life on a 30-acre farm.
Nicki Chapman meets an animal-loving house hunter from Oxfordshire who wants to relocate to a village community in Dorset, ideally close to the coast.
Steve Brown helps a couple find an eco-friendly Devon home, as well as meeting someone who has already made his own escape and turned a traditional village pub into something super-stylish.
Richie Anderson helps Gary and Mel make rural Lincolnshire home, with £450,000 to bring them closer to their daughter and give them enough space to welcome the whole family.
Sonali Shah helps a Warwickshire couple with £350,000 to spend realise a 41-year-old dream of moving to be by the sea on Anglesey and learns about living a slower-paced life.
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.
Richie Anderson helps a couple branch out to fulfil their forest school dream. He also meets an innovative artist who creates masterpieces on a bicycle-powered sewing machine.
From thatched charm to characterful new builds, Sonali Shah helps a young couple from a commuter town find their first and forever home in Cambridgeshire.
September 2026
Alistair Appleton helps a retired couple and their five sausage dogs find a perfect East Sussex home with room to rescue animals.
Nicki Chapman helps a London couple find a West Sussex home in the country for £380,000, including a mystery house with a New York loft feel, going full circle on their love story.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple find their dream home in delightful Derbyshire for them and their dog Basil, and also discovers an ambitious wildlife reintroduction project.
Jules Hudson has a line-up of beautiful Cambridgeshire houses for a retired couple who want to relocate to be closer to family. Jules also visits the inspiring Great Fen Project.
Richie Anderson helps a retiree from Lincolnshire find her dream Devonshire home by the sea and the lifestyle she has always wanted.
Jules Hudson joins two fitness fans hunting for a dream Cornish home near the coast. After some promising house tours, they all try a spot of gig boat racing in Padstow.
Briony May Williams helps a Kent family find a home in north Yorkshire for £280,000, visits a local vineyard and unveils a mystery waterside house with an impressive view.
Denise Nurse helps Caroline from Kent return to her happy place in the Northamptonshire countryside and meets a young couple transforming their dream cottage ready for family life.
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.
Sonali Shah is house-hunting with a couple from New York who want to swap the Big Apple for a bite of the Somerset countryside.
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.