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 smallholding. Within just a few years of moving into one of the properties Alistair showed them, they've not only transformed parts of their new home, but are also making impressive strides towards self-sufficiency on their land. Whilst in the region, Alistair takes in the countryside and heritage of the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
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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 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 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 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 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 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
BBC 1
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 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 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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