Escape to the Country
TV-PG
7.4
2002
Reality
The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.
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Episode 46 : Cumbria
May. 20,2024
Briony May Williams teams up with a retired Shakespeare scholar, who with a £300,000 budget hopes to write a new chapter in her life in the Cumbrian countryside.
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Episode 45 : County Antrim and County Down
May. 13,2024
It’s an emotional homecoming for Jules Hudson as he visits County Down and County Antrim. He’s with a couple who want to relocate there after a lifetime spent in the Canadian city of Toronto.
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Episode 44 : Berkshire and Hampshire
May. 06,2024
Motivated by wanting to move closer to family, an escapee has her sister on hand for moral support and Sonali Shah’s property know-how to help find the ideal rural retreat. Sonali also gets to meet some very sleepy baby barn owls and learns what needs to be done to protect these beautiful birds.
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Episode 43 : South West Wales
April. 29,2024
Ginny Buckley helps a couple with a budget of £400,000 look for a new home in South West Wales with at least an acre of land for glamping and a forestry school.
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Episode 42 : The Chilterns
April. 22,2024
Alistair Appleton helps a couple with a baby boy who crave more space swap their one-bedroom flat in south London for a home in the Chiltern Hills.
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Episode 41 : Shropshire
April. 15,2024
A couple want to swap their Cheshire townhouse for the dark skies and beautiful open spaces of Shropshire. Denise Nurse helps them with the property search and also visits a flower farm in full bloom to witness first hand how modern technology is working hand-in-hand with nature.
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Episode 40 : Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
April. 08,2024
Having spent the past four years living in the US state of Texas, a couple and their two young children are looking to find a family home in an Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire village.
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Episode 39 : Aberdeenshire
April. 02,2024
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. Away from the property shopping, Jules makes friends with some of the region’s hairy, horny residents... a herd of Highland cattle.
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Episode 38 : East Sussex
March. 25,2024
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.
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Episode 37 : Shropshire
March. 18,2024
Today’s escapees want to move to Shropshire to be closer to family and have entrusted Alistair Appleton to help them find a lovely rural retreat for both them and their bees.
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Episode 36 : Carmarthenshire
March. 12,2024
Ginny Buckley’s buyer today is chasing an inspiring landscape. She wants a new Carmarthenshire home that has as much land as her £450,000 budget can muster.
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Episode 35 : Devon
March. 04,2024
Jules Hudson helps a couple in their search for the perfect West Country pad in Devon and finds out why the county’s north coast has been designated as the UK’s first and only World Surfing Reserve.
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Episode 34 : Cumbria
February. 26,2024
Wanting to move closer to family, Nicki Chapman celebrates the arrival of her buyers’ first grandchild by helping them find a new home in Cumbria.
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Episode 33 : The Fens
February. 19,2024
Steve Brown helps his escapees from a large Bedfordshire town to find at least an acre of land in the Fens in order to set up their own glamping business.
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Episode 32 : Welsh Borders
February. 13,2024
With a budget of £400,000, an ambitious young couple from the West Midlands has the help of Sonali Shah to find a renovation project and a couple of acres of land in the Welsh Borders.
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Episode 31 : Cairngorms
February. 12,2024
Jules Hudson takes in Scotland’s stunning Cairngorms as he helps a couple from the Isle of Wight to find a rural property that will fulfil their ambitions for home as well as a new business.
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Episode 30 : Oxfordshire
February. 07,2024
In a bid to move closer to family, today's buyer has Nicki Chapman to help find a home in the Oxfordshire countryside for her and her son.
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Episode 29 : Buckinghamshire Borders
February. 06,2024
Helping a young couple from the city of St Albans, Briony May Williams heads to Buckinghamshire to find a fabulous countryside escape for them and Dexter the dog.
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Episode 28 : Cornwall
December. 13,2023
On the lookout for a property with potential for a holiday let business, as well as a home, Jules Hudson shows off a gloriously sunny Cornwall to today's entrepreneurial couple.
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Episode 27 : Scottish Borders
December. 12,2023
Denise Nurse shows off the magnificent Scottish Borders in all their glory to a young couple looking to make a big countryside escape. One half wants to open a veterinary practice in the region, and the other needs outbuildings for cars and motorbikes, but they are both united by their love of the great outdoors.
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Episode 26 : Bedfordshire Borders
December. 05,2023
Even though the daily commute from London to their Bedfordshire business is taking its toll, Nicki Chapman has her work cut out persuading one half of today's couple to move to the county's borders!
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Episode 25 : Welsh Borders
December. 04,2023
A couple from Reading in Berkshire want to escape and set up home in the Welsh Borders, somewhere with enough land to keep a menagerie of animals. Steve Brown helps them with the property search and takes them to an animal sanctuary to meet Burrito, a cuddle-loving donkey, as well as two pampered pigs, Wilbur and Uncle Watson.
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Episode 24 : Norfolk
November. 28,2023
On a bid to escape the city, today's couple and their three children are looking for a change of lifestyle for the whole family, and Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk to help them find it.
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Episode 23 : The Peak District
November. 27,2023
Denise Nurse delivers the Peak District on a plate as she helps a couple from a town in Oxfordshire to find their dream country home for a budget of £450,000.
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Episode 22 : Perth and Kinross
November. 22,2023
Sonali Shah marvels at the majesty of Perth and Kinross, as she helps a couple from a large town on England's south coast to find their dream country escape in Scotland. With their house-hunting budget of £425,000, lots of bookshelves, or places for them, are a top priority.
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Episode 21 : Warwickshire
November. 21,2023
Missing family and the great British countryside, today's couple are heading home to Warwickshire having spent the last six years living and working in the USA. Jules Hudson helps with their house search and visits an 18th century walled garden to meet the volunteers who help keep it in tip-top condition.
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Episode 20 : Northamptonshire
November. 14,2023
Wanting to leave town life behind them, this episode's couple have their sights set on a new countryside home in Northamptonshire, and Ginny Buckley is on hand to help them find it.
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Episode 19 : Hampshire
November. 13,2023
In Hampshire, Steve Brown has some excellent houses in his property shopping bag to show today's couple who, along with their two children and two tortoises, want to live as close as possible to the county's beautiful beaches.
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Episode 18 : West Yorkshire
November. 07,2023
In wonderful West Yorkshire, Nicki Chapman is with a young couple from Manchester who have a budget of £270,000 to find a home in the countryside for them and their baby son.
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Episode 17 : Perth and Kinross
November. 06,2023
Jules Hudson is in Perth and Kinross, helping a young couple with a budget of £350,000 to find an ideal country home for them and their two young sons. Jules also meets a group of keen stand-up paddleboarders who do their bit to keep the waterways free of litter.
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Episode 16 : Northumberland
October. 31,2023
Needing more space for books, as well as an impressive collection of rocks, today's couple from Edinburgh have Alistair Appleton to help them with their rural relocation to Northumberland.
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Episode 15 : North Yorkshire
October. 18,2023
Now back in the UK, a young couple crave the outdoors lifestyle they experienced together for nearly three years in New Zealand. Nicki Chapman's helps them find a new home in the fabulous countryside of North Yorkshire, where they want to spend their spare time running, cycling and walking.
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Episode 14 : Lincolnshire
October. 17,2023
Having taken a leap of faith, today's couple from Scotland stuck a pin in a map that landed in lovely Lincolnshire. Sonali Shah tours the county with them, showing them the very best property the county has to offer for their £220,000 budget.
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Episode 13 : The Wye Valley
October. 11,2023
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. Having put their Portugal home on the market, they've recently been touring the UK in their beloved camper van named Dave and are itching to settle down somewhere with more space inside and out!
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Episode 12 : The Lothians
October. 10,2023
After 26 years in London, today's couple has headed north to the Scottish Lothians in search of a complete change of lifestyle. They have a house-hunting budget of £475,000 and Nicki Chapman to help them spend it.
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Episode 11 : Somerset
October. 03,2023
A pair of artists need Alistair Appleton's help to find an inspiring rural retreat in Somerset where they can further indulge their creativity.
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Episode 10 : South West Wales
October. 02,2023
Having lived in the same house virtually all her life, a ukelele-playing buyer has £280,000 to relocate to Wales. Briony May Williams is tasked with helping her find the perfect property, and it will need to accommodate an entourage of animals.
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Episode 9 : Yorkshire
September. 26,2023
Seeking a less hectic lifestyle in Yorkshire, a London couple have £425,000 to spend on a new home, and Steve Brown is on hand to help them find it.
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Episode 8 : Caithness
September. 20,2023
Jules Hudson savours the spectacular scenery and splendid isolation on offer in Scotland's Caithness, as he helps a young family with a house-hunting budget of £270,000 to realise their dream of self-sufficiency.
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Episode 7 : East Midlands
September. 19,2023
Sonali Shah tours the East Midlands in search of a property to suit buyers who have lived in the USA for the last 23 years.
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Episode 6 : Norfolk
September. 13,2023
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. Plus, Denise meets someone who has taken the idea of mobile homes on wheels to a whole new level.
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Episode 5 : North Yorkshire
September. 12,2023
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. Then, she takes her escapee to a farm, where they are given the privilege of feeding a young lamb.
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Episode 4 : Somerset and Gloucestershire
September. 06,2023
Having spent 25 years in Holland, a retired opera singer and a music teacher approaching retirement have decided that now is the right time to return to the UK and, with Alistair Appleton's help, find a new home in Somerset or Gloucestershire.
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Episode 3 : Northumbria
September. 05,2023
Denise Nurse helps a couple so fed up with the eight-hour round trip to see their son in Northumbria that they've decided to move there instead. Denise has the keys to some lovely properties and also pays a visit to Northumberland National Park.
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Episode 2 : Pembrokeshire
August. 30,2023
Nicki Chapman is on the hunt for a Pembrokeshire property with a holiday let to suit a couple with very different wants and needs. Nicki also visits some entrepreneurs who have turned a derelict farmhouse into a gorgeous home in the county.
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Seasons
Season 23
A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. The current presenting team is Alistair Appleton, Nicki Chapman, Jules Hudson, Sonali Shah, Jonnie Irwin, Margherita Taylor, Ginny Buckley, and Steve Brown. Former presenters include Catherine Gee, Aled Jones, Denise Nurse, Nick Page, and Melissa Porter.
Season 22
Series 22 saw the expansion of the presenting team again, with former Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Briony May Williams join alongside consumer affairs presenter Chris Bavin.
Season 17
Veteran TV presenter Margherita Taylor joined the presenting team during the programme's 17th series.
Season 15
The 15th series saw the final appearance of Denise Nurse, following 8 years on the presenting team.
Season 14
Series 14 marks Sonali Shah's first appearance as part of the programme's presenting team.
Season 10
The 10th series saw Welsh singer and radio presenter Aled Jones join the show, as well as the first appearances of longstanding 'Escape To The Country' presenters Nicki Chapman and Jonnie Irwin.
Season 6
Series 6 is the final series where original 'Escape To The Country' presenter Catherine Gee appeared.
Season 5
Series 5 saw the introduction of longstanding 'Escape To The Country' presenters Alistair Appleton and Jules Hudson alongside fellow presenter Melissa Porter.
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