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 242 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2026.
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Escape to the Country
Alistair Appleton helps a retired couple and their five sausage dogs find a perfect East Sussex home with room to rescue animals.
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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.
Series 26
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.
Series 27
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.
Series 24
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.
Series 25
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.
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.
A retired army couple looking to escape busy Bedfordshire enlist Margherita Taylor to help them spend their house-hunting budget in the rural wilds of Norfolk.
In the Cotswolds, a couple from Scotland look for the characterful cottage of their dreams. Nicki Chapman drops in on show jumping legend Nick Skelton.
Series 26
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.
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.
A young couple want to swap their London flat for something bigger in the East Midlands, where Nicki Chapman opens the front doors to a beautiful selection of homes with lovely gardens.
Living with their baby boy in a one-bedroom flat in south London, today’s couple need more space, which they want to find in the lovely Chiltern Hills.
Sonali Shah helps a couple returning to the UK from the USA with their two young children find a new countryside home.
Steve Brown helps a couple from Bedfordshire relocate to the fabulous Fens to start a glamping business, so at least an acre of land is a priority.