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 226 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2025.
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Escape to the Country
Two sisters want to combine their resources in Somerset to find a secluded house that has enough land to start their own music festival.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple from urban Hertfordshire with a £550,000 budget move to the Somerset countryside.
Series 23
Steve Brown meets a pair of cycling enthusiasts on the hunt for the perfect rural idyll in the Peak District.
Cheshire may be a world away from Miami, where today’s couple are moving from, but to them, it’s a county that feels like home. Alistair Appleton is on hand to help them settle in.
Series 25
Today’s couple have enlisted the help of Briony May Williams to help them swap their busy Kent town for the great outdoors of rural Suffolk.
Steve Brown is on hand to help a couple of newlyweds looking to escape South London and set down roots in the stunning countryside of Cumbria.
Jules Hudson teams up with a couple of keen horticulturalists who are searching for their ideal country home in the Yorkshire Dales, with the garden a top priority.
Series 22
North Yorkshire beckons to an Essex couple who need Jonnie Irwin’s help to find a home in this beautiful region.
Series 23
Jules Hudson is in the Welsh county of Powys with a couple whose property wish list includes an annexe for their parents.
Sonali Shah helps a young couple who want to swap town life in Halifax for country life in the wonderful surroundings of North Yorkshire.
Series 25
The coast is a theme today as Denise Nurse helps a keen gardener move to North Yorkshire to be closer to her family and her treasured grandson.
Jonnie Irwin takes in the delights of Derbyshire with a couple of property hunters from Leeds
Series 25
Steve Brown marvels at the spectacular scenery on offer in Perth and Kinross and beyond as he helps a couple with three children to find their dream home in the countryside.
Series 23
Nicki Chapman meets two escapees who are returning home for good from Malaysia after the recent arrival of grandchildren. They want to put down new roots in the Herefordshire countryside.
With the help of her mother and Jules Hudson, a buyer from suburban Surrey is looking for a new family home with enough land to start a dog-training school in south west Wales.
Alistair Appleton guides a couple who want to switch their lives from the bustle of Bristol to the fresh country air of the Wye Valley.
A new house in the Hampshire countryside is needed for a young couple and their two dogs, and Sonali Shah is on hand to show them the best properties the county has to offer.
Series 25
Hoping to escape to the dramatic countryside of north Wales, Jules Hudson’s buyers want to find a new home with at least an acre of land where they can create a wellbeing retreat.
Today’s buyer needs Alistair Appleton’s help to find a new home in Suffolk, where Alistair also meets a couple who have established a beautiful, biodiverse wildflower meadow.
Today’s buyers don’t mind if they find a new home in Hampshire or Dorset, just as long as it’s near their happy place, the sea. Denise Nurse is there to put a smile on their faces!