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 232 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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Escape to 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.
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There’s no place quite like Argyll and Bute, or so says Denise Nurse’s buyer, who wants to return there from Kent.
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
Retired Jenny from Kent heads for the North Wessex Downs to be near her son, and with Jules Hudson’s help, she’s hoping to find a rosy cottage to call home.
In Scotland's Central Lowlands, Sonali Shah helps a Canadian couple to make a rural escape and meets Californians who bought their dream home, sight unseen, and never looked back.
Nicki Chapman has a very tempting selection of properties for a young couple, currently living in Manchester, who are hoping to up sticks to the Cheshire countryside with their young daughter.
A young couple from London have £325,000 to spend on a new rural home, and it’s Sonali Shah who is leading the search in the Monmouthshire countryside.
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.
Today’s couple has decided to move to the peace and quiet of the east Devon border region, where Jules Hudson is on hand to help out with a spot of property shopping.
Nicki Chapman is in the West Country, helping three generations from the West Midlands make a Devon escape. She also tries her hand at weaving with a local textile designer.
Steve Brown helps a couple wanting space for animals to swap urban Gloucestershire for rural Herefordshire and also visits former escapees who now run a thriving organic farm.
In between marvelling at the majestic countryside on offer in east Devon, Nicki Chapman goes house-hunting with a couple of Londoners who are itching to escape to the countryside.
February 2026
It’s an exciting double challenge for Steve Brown today in his home county of Kent, as he’s helping a pair of sisters from London to buy a house each!
Three generations of a family want to move to the East Midlands, and the task of finding a new home for them all has fallen on mum, grandma, and Ginny Buckley.
Wanting to escape south London, a mother and son meet up with Sonali Shah in the Lothians, where they want to find their ideal rural retreat, complete with an art studio.
A newly engaged couple from Cheshire want to buy their first home together in rural Northumberland, where Jules Hudson is on hand to help.
In rural Shropshire, Alistair Appleton helps newlyweds from an Essex town find a traditional home and meets a local artist for some feather-filled poultry painting en plein air.
Jules Hudson helps Sarah from Newcastle find peace, privacy and glorious views in Northumberland. On a break from the property viewings, they visit Capheaton Hall’s glorious walled garden.
Alistair Appleton shows off the Cotswolds in all its glory to a couple from Edinburgh who have a budget of over £1 million to spend on their dream home.
Steve Brown helps a Bristol couple to move to the Wye Valley. It's not far from where they live now, but it's a whole world away in terms of lifestyle.