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Series 7: 6. Somerset
Somerset is the backdrop for today’s episode, in which Briony May Williams and Sonali Shah catch up with two couples who wanted to live closer to family. \n\nBriony returns to the county to find that her very first house-hunting couple are enjoying their new life in one of the beautiful homes they viewed together. Then Sonali turns back the clock to 2020, finding that one of her Somerset adventures didn’t quite turn out how anyone expected.
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