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 emergency workers who had set their sights on Norfolk back in 2017 with the hope of creating a more relaxed lifestyle for their family. However, Sonali finds that they are as busy as ever with major renovations to their farmhouse, plus a couple of cows and no less than 121 chickens to care for! Sonali then catches up with a couple who have managed to take things down a gear and are enjoying the pleasures of their rural lifestyle a year on from their house hunt.
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Series 9: 5. Alicante
Alistair Appleton heads to Spain to catch up with a couple who escaped landlocked Doncaster for sunnier climates and a new start ten years ago.\n\nCourtesy of the Escape to the ...
16-01-2025
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Series 9: 4. Pembrokeshire
Today’s episode looks back at two former Escape missions which took place in south west Wales, in and around the county of Pembrokeshire.\n\nFirst, Briony May Williams reu ...
16-01-2025
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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 ...
15-01-2025
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Series 9: 3. Devon And Northumbria
Jules Hudson and Denise Nurse reminisce over two successful escape stories which took them to opposite ends of England.\n\nIn 2023, Jules helped a couple to swap their self-buil ...
14-01-2025
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Series 9: 2. Bedfordshire Borders And Lincolnshire
Today’s trip down memory lane begins with Jules Hudson in rural Bedfordshire and finishes in coastal Lincolnshire with Sonali Shah.\n\nJust ten months after moving into th ...
10-01-2025
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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 ...
09-01-2025
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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 ...
08-01-2025
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Series 9: 1. Somerset
In the first episode of a new series, Nicki Chapman retraces her steps in Somerset, where two different couples shared similar aspirations.\n\nDuring a house search in 2018, emo ...
08-01-2025
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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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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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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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