I Escaped To The Country
I Escaped To The Country is a TV show on BBC1. Series celebrating the house-buying success stories of people who went on to purchase a rural property they were introduced to on their original Escape to the Country journey. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2025.
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I Escaped To The Country
Alistair Appleton heads to Spain to meet up with a couple who escaped to the continent ten years ago and have never looked back.
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In this jaunt down memory lane, Nicki Chapman makes the 200-mile journey from Derbyshire to Devon to ask the age-old question of coast or countryside?
Series 9
In Pembrokeshire, Briony May Williams and Ginny Buckley revisit buyers who decided to act on their long-held ambitions of moving to the Welsh countryside.
Two successful house hunts for Jules Hudson and Denise Nurse, who reunite with their buyers to discover how their lives have been transformed by escaping to the country.
Series 8
Alistair Appleton and Denise Nurse catch up with some adventurous women who have found fulfilment in the rural borderlands of Wales.
Nicki Chapman and Ginny Buckley reconnect with couples who fled the capital to seek peaceful idylls in the English countryside.
Series 9
Jules Hudson takes a trip down memory lane in Bedfordshire, while Sonali Shah catches up with a couple who were finally able to buy their own home in early retirement.
Nicki Chapman retraces her steps in the West Country, meeting up with two sets of escapees now living their best lives in Somerset, before sampling some local produce.