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 234 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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Escape to the Country
Today, we have a marvellous multi-generational move to consider as Alistair Appleton guides one family, spread over four generations, to find two houses in one village!
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Sonali Shah is in magnificent Northumberland, helping three generations of the same family to escape from Leicester and find a new rural home together.
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
Jules Hudson helps Rob and Dani leave London for rural Kent, mixing old homes and new. And there is a mystery house that quite literally turns everything upside down.
Denise Nurse helps Susi, Sam and Rupert the dog leave busy Bedfordshire behind for south Devon, with £500,000 to find an annexe, more space and perhaps even a sea view.
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.
It’s an island escape as Jules Hudson helps a couple from a town in Cheshire to find their dream home on Anglesey.
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.
A health-conscious couple from London enlist Sonali Shah to help them spend £1.3 million on a detached property in Surrey with enough land to create a wellness retreat.
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.
Steve Brown helps Cheryl and Barry swap Somerset suburbia for Moray and Aberdeenshire, where £425,000 must buy plenty of land for their family and growing menagerie of animals.
Two generations swap busy Bucks for the calm of Cornwall, where Alistair Appleton has a beautiful mystery house conversion up his sleeve and meets a duo lighting up the county.
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.
In West Yorkshire, Steve Brown supports an artist who is looking to leave London to realise her ambition of living life in the countryside.
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.