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 236 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2026.
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Escape to the Country
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.
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Denise Nurse is in Suffolk, helping a couple find a new home in a more rural setting, where they can enjoy retired life together, closer to the coast, lakes or waterways.
Jules Hudson helps a former royal marine and retired civil servant to find their forever home in the wonderfully evocative county of Northumberland.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple and their dog Daisy swap France for the East Riding of Yorkshire, hunting for a home nearer family, friends and proper fish and chips.
Steve Brown helps a whippet-loving couple swap a Sussex town for rural Suffolk, where they hope to establish a glamping retreat. Steve also explores a new scenic cycle route.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Newcastle who want to turn the spectacular Lake District from a holiday destination into their permanent home.
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
Steve Brown is with a buyer who is hoping to find a new house in her childhood home county of Devon. He also visits an organic orchard that produces award-winning cider.
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.
Jules Hudson helps Lisa swap Northampton for a Powys life reboot with her children and takes to a canoe, 128 feet above the ground!
An air ambulance pilot has £200,000 to find a new home within an hour of Belfast airport. Briony May Willams is on hand to help and has a go at Irish dancing by Lough Neagh.
Ginny Buckley helps a couple who have been living in Canada since the 1980s find a new home in Dorset.
After 15 years living and working in Dubai, two expats want to return home to the UK and need Sonali Shah’s help to find them a new home in wonderful West Sussex.
Emotions are running high during a house hunt in Herefordshire, where Sonali Shah is helping a couple to make a fresh start in the countryside after a life-changing event.
A sunny adventure in the Kent countryside with a couple chasing fresh air and freedom, Nicki Chapman’s rural property prowess, a medieval mystery house and a fabulous flower farm.
Alistair Appleton helps a young, soon-to-be-married couple find a dream home in the countryside of North Somerset, then unwinds with some meditation 'me time' in the Somerset Levels.
Nicki Chapman helps Peggy leave London for a rural Gloucestershire home with views for her, two dogs and a horse. And there’s a taste of country life from former street food chefs.
After 30 years in Stoke-on-Trent, a couple wanting to be close to their grandchild head to Wiltshire with Ginny Buckley, looking for a new home where separate bathrooms are a must!
May 2026
A pair of artists look to Alistair Appleton to help them find an inspiring rural retreat in Somerset where they can further indulge their creativity.
Briony May Williams helps a buyer who has her sights set on Devon or Dorset to find a rural home with business potential.