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 2023. A total of 185 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2024.
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Escape to the Country
Alistair Appleton helps a couple to move one step closer to their dream of a new life on the gorgeous Gower Peninsula in Wales.
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After 26 years in London, today’s couple have headed to the Scottish Lothians in search of a change of lifestyle. They have a house-hunting budget of £475,000 and Nicki Chapman to help them spend it.
Jules Hudson explores one of the UK’s most beautiful locations today as he sets about finding the ideal Wye Valley property for his house hunters.
Nicki Chapman is in the Cairngorms with a couple who, after exploring the UK in their campervan for the last two years, have decided to settle in the Scottish countryside.
There’s no place quite like Argyll and Bute, or so says Denise Nurse’s buyer, who wants to return there from Kent.
It’s an emotional homecoming today and a first for Jules Hudson as he visits County Down and County Antrim for some property shopping in Northern Ireland.
Wanting to be close to the coast, a couple from Birmingham decide that Cornwall is the perfect destination for their escape. Sonali Shah is on hand to make their dream come true.
Steve Brown helps a London couple, with £425,000 to spend, find a new home and less hectic lifestyle in Yorkshire.
Jules Hudson savours the spectacular scenery and splendid isolation on offer in Scotland’s Caithness as he helps a young family to realise their dream of self-sufficiency.
Sonali Shah is in magnificent Northumberland, helping three generations of the same family to escape from Leicester and find a new rural home together.
Berkshire’s beautiful countryside will be a far cry from busy Slough, where today’s couple is moving from, and Ginny Buckley is on hand to help with the house hunting.
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.
Steve Brown helps a Bristol couple to move to the Wye Valley. It's not far from where they live now, but it's a whole world away in terms of lifestyle.
Denise Nurse is in Norfolk, with a buyer who wants to move closer to her family, and who has her son in tow for support.
Briony May Williams helps to make dreams come true for a buyer with an ambition of moving to the North Yorkshire countryside on a £250,000 budget.
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
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.
November 2024
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.
Alastair Appleton helps a musical couple returning from the Netherlands to the UK, who are looking to find a new home in either Somerset or Gloucestershire.
Denise Nurse helps a couple who are so fed up with the eight-hour round trip to see their son in Northumbria that they’ve decided to move there instead.