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 214 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2025.
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Escape to the Country
A London couple are swapping the sound of the Bow bells for cow bells as they search for a dream home in the Derbyshire countryside.
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Alistair Appleton helps an opera singer and his husband find a house with space inside to hold small concerts and a garden big enough to keep a couple of pigs.
Steve Brown is tasked with finding a new home for a couple from Spain who are returning to the UK and hoping to settle in the Shropshire or Herefordshire countryside.
Series 24
Returning home after eight years of living and working in Abu Dhabi, two teachers want to swap desert sand for the beaches of East Sussex.
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
Nicki Chapman is in Devon, house-hunting with a pair of entrepreneurial sisters who dream of creating their very own glamping business.
With the last of their children about to fly the nest, a couple from a Berkshire town need Jules Hudson’s help to find them a new home in Suffolk with holiday let potential.
Series 22
Wanting to swap their home in London for a new one in the Berkshire countryside, today’s couple have a whopping £1 million budget, and Alistair Appleton is here to help them spend it.
Series 23
Steve Brown meets a couple hunting for a property with space for holiday lets or glamping in Powys. Steve also visits a nearby Victorian reservoir.
It’s destination Argyll and Bute today. Sonali Shah tours this region of Scotland in search of a new home for a couple from a Warwickshire town who have a budget of £340,000.
Series 25
There’s no time like the present for Alistair Appleton's buyers, who hope to realise a lifelong dream of living by the sea in Dorset.
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.
A couple from the Surrey town of Epsom enjoy the spectacular landscape in Argyll and Bute as Nicki Chapman provides them with some expert property advice.
Series 20
Alistair Appleton helps a south London couple find their dream home in the High Weald.
Series 23
The pressure is on Nicki Chapman to find today’s couple their perfect property in wonderful Wiltshire, as they have already sold their London home.
Series 24
Briony May Williams helps a young couple from St Albans find a fabulous countryside escape in Buckinghamshire for them and their dog Dexter, and visits one of the county's National Trust properties.
Series 25
Jules Hudson explores the Wiltshire countryside with a buyer looking to leave her London home of nearly 50 years.
Nicki Chapman is on a sun-soaked escape as she helps a couple to swap London for the Chiltern Hills, seeking out a home with space for hobbies and visiting family and friends.
Series 22
Jules Hudson shows a property buyer from Edinburgh around the Lothians. Jules also tours a meticulously restored 16th-century tower.
Series 24
Denise Nurse shows off the magnificent Scottish Borders in all their glory to a young couple looking to make a big countryside escape.