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I Escaped to the Country Episodes
Series 8: 10. France
We’re escaping to France, where Alistair Appleton relives his enchanting encounter with a Yorkshire lass who had her eyes firmly set on the horizon... and beyond!\n\nBorro ...
06-02-2024
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Series 8: 9. North Yorkshire And The Cotswolds
When Nicki Chapman accompanied a retired teacher on a property-seeking mission in North Yorkshire, back in the autumn of 2021, neither of them could have imagined where the jour ...
05-02-2024
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Series 5: 3. Dorset
Nicki Chapman catches up with past house-hunters who have found a better quality of rural life near the coast. First, Nicki meets up with a couple she went house-hunting with ba ...
02-02-2024
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Series 5: 2. Staffordshire & Devon
They say an Englishman’s home is his castle, and today Jules Hudson catches up with two couples who have bought their very own slice of stately-home living, at either end ...
01-02-2024
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Series 5: 1. Bedfordshire & Herefordshire
Sonali Shah meets up with a couple who bought one of the houses presented to them on a 2019 Escape to the Country property hunt in Bedfordshire. A year on, she finds out how the ...
31-01-2024
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Series 6: 9. Norfolk
The shoe is on the other foot for Sonali Shah today as she is invited into the homes of two sets of house hunters who are now proud Norfolk residents. She meets a pair of former ...
26-01-2024
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Series 6: 5. Isle Of Arran And North Yorkshire
Alistair Appleton visits former Escape to the Country house hunters to find out what happened next with their planned rural moves. First, he meets a couple who were searching fo ...
25-01-2024
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Series 6: 1. Welsh Borders
Jules Hudson reunites with house hunters who turned their backs on city life in London and Bristol to make a move to the Welsh Borders. First, Jules checks in with a couple who ...
24-01-2024
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Series 8: 8. Monmouthshire And Gloucestershire
Sonali Shah visits both sides of the Wales-England border, with one couple looking to get away from it all and the other wanting to get stuck in the thick of it.\n\nIn the summe ...
23-01-2024
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Series 8: 7. Dorset And Wiltshire
Alistair Appleton is back to meet some accomplished athletes following their successful house-hunting challenges in the countryside.\n\nA year since two ex-rugby internationals ...
22-01-2024
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Series 7: 7. Scotland
Nicki Chapman catches up with escapees who found dream homes with spectacular views on Scotland’s west coast. \n\nBack in 2018, Nicki was house-hunting in Ayrshire with a ...
19-01-2024
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Series 7: 2. Norfolk
Jules Hudson retraces his steps in the county of Norfolk. Back in 2021, he helped a couple from south east London search for a new Norfolk home to accommodate them, their three ...
18-01-2024
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Series 7: 10. West Country
Sonali Shah heads for the West Country counties of Cornwall and Devon to catch up with former house-hunters who have settled there. \n\nFirst, she makes her way to Cornwall, w ...
17-01-2024
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Series 8: 6. Argyll & Bute And Moray
Sonali Shah and Jules Hudson follow up on their house-hunting expeditions in the beguiling Scottish Highlands.\n\nLess than a year ago, Sonali Shah took motorbike enthusiasts of ...
16-01-2024
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Series 8: 5. Norfolk And Oxfordshire
Jules Hudson does a deep dive into the wondrous world of barn conversions in this very special revisit.\n\nBefore the dust has even had time to settle, Jules Hudson pops in on a ...
15-01-2024
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Series 7: 8. South Wales
Alistair Appleton returns to Wales to catch up with two couples whose interests and hobbies helped them settle swiftly into their new communities.\n\nFirst, he revisits a couple ...
12-01-2024
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Series 7: 4. Cotswolds And Shropshire
Nicki Chapman reconnects with past escapees in the Cotswolds and Shropshire. \n\nIt was nearly love at first sight for a couple from Scotland, who, in 2020, wanted Nicki’s ...
11-01-2024
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Series 7: 3. Wiltshire
Denise Nurse and Alistair Appleton reunite with homebuyers they first met a decade ago.\n\nIn 2012, Denise guided young newlyweds around Wiltshire as they aimed to escape London ...
10-01-2024
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Series 8: 4. West Wales And Yorkshire
Jules Hudson follows the unexpected journey of one couple and a homecoming for another.\n\nTwo years after their property search in west Wales, Jules Hudson tracks down his form ...
09-01-2024
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Series 8: 3. Derbyshire And Devon
In this jaunt down memory lane, Nicki Chapman makes the 200-mile journey from Derbyshire to Devon to ask the age-old question: coast or countryside?\n\nBack in 2015, Nicki Chapm ...
08-01-2024
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Series 8: 2. Herefordshire Borders And North Wales
Alistair Appleton and Denise Nurse catch up with some adventurous women who have found fulfilment in the rural borderlands of Wales.\n\nIn 2022, Alistair Appleton truly delivere ...
05-01-2024
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Series 7: 1. Devon
Nicki Chapman reunites with escapees who have made new lives for themselves in rural Devon.\n\nStarting in the east of the county, Nicki catches up with a homebuyer who, in the ...
04-01-2024
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Series 8: 1. Devon And Hampshire
Nicki Chapman and Ginny Buckley reconnect with couples who fled the capital to seek peaceful idylls in the English countryside. \n\nNicki Chapman kicks off this episode in deli ...
02-01-2024
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Series 6: 4. West Country
Nicki Chapman is in the West Country, catching up with two couples who have found a better quality of life for themselves and their children. Nicki makes her way to Somerset to ...
11-08-2023
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Series 6: 8. Suffolk And Shropshire
Jules Hudson reacquaints himself with a couple who, back in 2016, were seeking a new life in Shropshire. Whilst they now live in their perfect countryside property, Jules is sur ...
10-08-2023
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Series 6: 7. Staffordshire And Hampshire
Sonali Shah retraces her steps with two sporty couples in the counties of Staffordshire and Hampshire. In the West Midlands, she’s back with former house hunters who bough ...
09-08-2023
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Series 6: 3. Dumfries And Galloway
Alistair Appleton is in the rural wilds of Scotland, catching up with house hunters who have carved out new, fulfilling lives in the beautiful countryside of Dumfries and Gallow ...
08-08-2023
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Series 7: 9. The Midlands
Jules Hudson and Steve Brown retrace their steps to visit former house-hunters in the Midlands. \n\nIn 2021, Jonnie Irwin came up trumps for an entrepreneurial couple seeking a ...
04-11-2022
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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 ret ...
01-11-2022
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Series 7: 5. Welsh Marches And Devon
Sonali Shah meets up with former house hunters for whom land was the priority. \n\nShe retraces her steps in the Welsh Marches as she meets up with a pair of former escapees who ...
31-10-2022
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Series 6: 10. East Anglia
Seven years on from their property search together, Jonnie Irwin travels to East Anglia for a reunion with two former house hunters from London. He discovers that they have esta ...
14-01-2022
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Series 6: 6. Gloucestershire
Jonnie Irwin returns to visit past Escape to the Country house-hunters who, back in 2016, were looking to relocate to Gloucestershire. The first stop is with an entrepreneurial ...
10-01-2022
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Series 6: 2. Shropshire
Jonnie Irwin and Alistair Appleton retrace their steps in the beautiful countryside of Shropshire. Jonnie discovers how a couple have completely rebuilt their home following a d ...
04-01-2022
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Series 5: 10. Welsh Borders & Devon
Nicki Chapman catches up with two sets of buyers whose rural aspirations were driven by a spirit of adventure. Nicki heads to the Welsh Borders for a reunion with a couple she m ...
23-11-2020
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Series 5: 9. Norfolk
Jonnie Irwin makes his way to the Norfolk countryside for a reunion with past house-hunters who are now making the most of their new rural settings. Jonnie calls in on a dynamic ...
20-11-2020
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Series 5: 8. Wiltshire & Hampshire
Sonali Shah revisits two sets of Escape to the Country house-hunters united by their appreciation of traditional, period homes. In Wiltshire, she catches up with a couple for wh ...
19-11-2020
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Series 5: 7. Derbyshire & West Sussex
Jules Hudson heads into the great British countryside and Ginny Buckley is bound for the coast as they discover how grand plans to escape to the country have panned out for two ...
18-11-2020
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Series 5: 6. North Yorkshire & Welsh Borders
Jules Hudson and Nicki Chapman visit former Escape to the Country house-hunters to find out what happened next with their planned country moves. Jules is in North Yorkshire with ...
17-11-2020
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Series 5: 5. Isle Of Wight & South West Wales
Jules Hudson catches up with two sets of entrepreneurial house-hunters who had grand plans to make an income from their new homes in the countryside. Jules returns to the Isle o ...
16-11-2020
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Series 5: 4. Devon
The shoe is on the other foot for Jonnie Irwin as he is welcomed by two sets of house buyers who have successfully established new lives in the Devon countryside. First, he is i ...
13-11-2020
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Series 2: 10. Wiltshire
In this show, Jules Hudson is in the Wiltshire countryside catching up with his house buyers. First, he revisits a fun-loving couple who have made radical changes to their prope ...
18-01-2019
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Series 2: 9. Welsh Borders
Alistair Appleton revisits the Welsh Border region and is reunited with a house-hunting couple who originally had a £475,000 budget and serious ambitions to start a smallh ...
17-01-2019
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Series 2: 8. Somerset
Jules Hudson returns to rural Somerset to be reunited with a retired couple, now happily living in the character home they all first saw together. As well as seeing the impressi ...
16-01-2019
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Series 2: 7. Suffolk
Jonnie Irwin is reunited with his avid equestrian house hunters in Suffolk. Since buying the unassuming property Jonnie showed them, the couple have ploughed their efforts into ...
15-01-2019
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Series 2: 6. Herefordshire
Nicki Chapman returns to Herefordshire to catch up with her house-hunters, discovering how their plans of running holiday let business have come to fruition and how they've also ...
14-01-2019
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Series 2: 5. Dorset And Derbyshire
Sonali Shah catches up with a couple she helped to make the leap from a suburban town to the beautiful Dorset countryside. They have subsequently redressed their work-life balan ...
11-01-2019
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Series 2: 4. Norfolk And Cumbria
Alistair Appleton revisits house buyers who made their escapes to the country and radically changed their new properties and lifestyles in the process. First he heads to Norfolk ...
10-01-2019
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Series 2: 3. West Country
Nicki Chapman is in the west country revisiting house buyers who have successfully made the leap to a new life in the country. First she catches up with an entrepreneurial coupl ...
09-01-2019
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Series 2: 2. Dorset
Sonali Shah revisits the maritime county of Dorset to be reunited with her house hunters who had a £500,000 budget to retire to a property with coastal views and have set ...
08-01-2019
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Series 2: 1. Suffolk And Kent
Jonnie Irwin revisits house buyers who haven't looked back since relocating to the countryside. His first stop is Suffolk, where he finds the buyers happily immersed in keeping ...
07-01-2019
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Series 3: 10. Northumberland
Alistair Appleton heads to Northumberland to revisit his buyers with a £475,000 budget who have moved into one of the houses he showed them. He discovers how their charact ...
16-11-2018
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Series 3: 9. Monmouthshire And Peak District
Sonali Shah revisits two of her house-buying couples who have recently settled into their country homes. First, she drops in on her escapees whose £230,000 budget afforded ...
15-11-2018
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Series 3: 8. Devon And Shropshire
Alistair Appleton starts his journey in Devon and visits a mother and daughter who moved into their dream property back in 2013 after a lucky windfall boosted their budget to &p ...
14-11-2018
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Series 3: 7. Monmouthshire
Jules Hudson is in Monmouthshire revisiting one of his couples who were armed with a £500,000 budget and moved into one of the houses they all viewed together. He discover ...
13-11-2018
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Series 3: 6. Cumbria
Jonnie Irwin is in Cumbria, where he catches up with two couples who found their perfect country homes during their property search. First, Jonnie reunites with a retired health ...
12-11-2018
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Series 3: 5. Devon
Nicki Chapman goes on a revisit tour of Devon, where she catches up with two different buyers who fell in love with the properties they viewed on their house hunt. First, Nicki ...
09-11-2018
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Series 3: 4. Herefordshire
Sonali Shah is reunited with a couple who she helped move from Bristol to an idyllic home in the Herefordshire countryside on a £500,000 budget. After reminiscing about th ...
09-11-2018
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Series 3: 3. Carmarthenshire And Argyll & Bute
Jules Hudson's revisit journey takes him to two truly rural destinations - west Wales, and Argyll and Bute. First Jules is reunited with a horse-loving couple whose £450,0 ...
08-11-2018
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Series 3: 2. Cornwall
Nicki Chapman heads to Cornwall to find out what happened next for some horse-loving house buyers who are now enjoying the freedom of having their horses on their own land and a ...
07-11-2018
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Series 3: 1. Wye Valley
Jonnie Irwin visits the Wye Valley, where he is reunited with two of his house-buying couples. First he meets his recent escapees who snapped up the country home he showed them ...
06-11-2018
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