A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble — Season 5
About this season
Kate Humble helps people looking for a simpler life in the country.
Episodes (8)
1. Shropshire
Aired 28 April 2023 • 45 min
Kate heads back to see if families' dream moves have brought all they hoped for. She returns to Shropshire, meeting the Goldby family who traded in suburban Epsom for a quiet hamlet.
2. North Devon
Aired 25 June 2023 • 45 min
3. Suffolk
Aired 25 June 2023 • 45 min
4. Pembrokeshire
Aired 1 August 2025 • 45 min
Fifteen months since her last visit, Kate catches up with Simon Dibb and Kirsty MacDonald, who sold their Hemel Hempstead terraced home and moved to a traditional Welsh farmhouse in Pembrokeshire with their son Seth. She finds they have welcomed a whole host of new animals to their growing smallholding, not to mention new baby Amos
5. Carmarthenshire
Aired 15 August 2025 • 45 min
The presenter revisits rural Carmarthenshire, where mum Helen, dad Ash, their two sons Ben and Joe, plus a small menagerie of animals relocated from Reading. With 18 acres to manage, animals to rehome and plans to attract glampers to the site, it required a serious amount of work and commitment from the whole family. Kate returns to see the hard graft that's gone into this new life.
6. Ceredigion
Aired 22 August 2025 • 45 min
Kate heads to Wales to meet Richard, Dawn, Karli, Matt and their three daughters, who sold their Cardiff homes and moved to rural Ceredigion. They bought a Welsh longhouse with gardens, polytunnels, and a wood-fired pizzeria, aiming to revive it as a local attraction. Now mortgage-free, they're learning to live off the land and run a café and pizzeria.
7. The Shetland Isles
Aired 29 August 2025 • 55 min
Kate visits Shetland to catch up with the Cook family, who left Exeter for Yell. Did their dream of a simpler, debt-free life survive COVID and financial strain?
8. Aberdeenshire
Aired 5 September 2025 • 55 min
Kate meets Sammy and Charlie Khalil who left their boxy terrace in Bracknell for a detached home 600 miles away in Aberdeenshire. Is their new dream life working out - even in winters at minus 21 degrees?