Escape to the Country — Season 12

Aired 14 November 2011 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman visits Gwynedd, North Wales, to help an artistic couple find a home with inspiring views for £450,000. While in Gwynedd, Nicki takes a tour of a local slate mine and learns how to craft one of the region's famous tiles.

Aired 15 November 2011 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin travels to Yorkshire to help find a rural home for a budget of 300,000 pounds. But there is a surprise in store for today's buyers.

Aired 16 November 2011 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton meets a couple with £1.5 million to spend on a Hampshire home.

Aired 17 November 2011 • 45 min

Aled Jones helps some young newlyweds to buy their first home in Lincolnshire.

Aired 18 November 2011 • 45 min

Jules Hudson goes on a £650,000 house hunt in Dorset.

Aired 28 November 2011 • 45 min

Jules Hudson tries to find a home in Devon for two generations of the same family.

Aired 30 November 2011 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a home with B&B potential in the Malvern Hills.

Aired 1 December 2011 • 45 min

Jules Hudson visits Rutland, England's smallest county, as he helps search for a home for £400,000 for a couple from London. While in Rutland, Jules gets to grips with a unique set of traditional steam trains being restored by local enthusiasts.

Aired 2 December 2011 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman searches for a home in the Yorkshire Dales for a budget of 420,000 pounds.

Aired 22 December 2011 • 45 min

Jules Hudson searches for a home in Cheshire for a couple with £1.2 million to spend.

Aired 23 December 2011 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps a couple who are about to be married find a £400,000 home.

Aired 3 January 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton house hunts in Cumbria with an active young couple.

Aired 4 January 2012 • 45 min

Aled Jones helps a couple hoping to find a home with holiday let potential in Devon.

Aired 5 January 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a newly-retired couple downsize to a smaller home in rural Oxfordshire.

Aired 6 January 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman joins the house hunt with a retired couple of caravan-owners.

Aired 9 January 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse travels to Lancashire to help a family who have outgrown their London home.

Aired 10 January 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple who want to leave their family home after almost thirty years.

Aired 11 January 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple who wish to move to the Carmarthenshire countryside.

Aired 12 January 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple of young retirees find a new home in North Devon.

Aired 13 January 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple and their autistic son find a home on the Isle of Wight.

Aired 16 January 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps a couple, with a dream of mortgage free living, escape to North Wales.

Aired 17 January 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton travels to Wiltshire to help find a country home for a couple.

Aired 18 January 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps a newly engaged couple from London find their dream home in Lancashire.

Aired 19 January 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple find a new home in the county of Powys in Wales.

Aired 20 January 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a retired couple who want to move closer to their grandchildren.

Aired 23 January 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple return to their roots in rural South Wales.

Aired 24 January 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a country home along the Essex/Suffolk border.

Aired 25 January 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman is in Devon, helping a couple of retired teachers find a rural retreat.

Aired 26 January 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps find a family home for a couple and their two children in Norfolk.

Aired 27 January 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin travels to Norfolk to help a business woman find a home closer to her

Aired 30 January 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple with £1.2M to spend, find their dream home in Berkshire.

Aired 31 January 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire, helping a couple buy a home for a budget of £550,000.

Aired 1 February 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps a retired couple escape to Somerset, with a budget of £350,000.

Aired 2 February 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple and their three-year-old daughter find a home for £450,000.

Aired 3 February 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman goes on tour with the Alcester Court Leet and becomes a guest ale taster.

Aired 6 February 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin house hunts with a pair of avid walkers for a £600,000 house in Cumbria.

Aired 7 February 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton is in Somerset helping a couple find a home for a budget of £400,000.

Aired 8 February 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps two retired police officers swap their caravan for a rural residence.

Aired 9 February 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple find a new home in West Sussex for a budget of 700,000 pounds.

Aired 10 February 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps two naval officers find a home in Herefordshire.

Aired 13 February 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a pair of car enthusiasts who want to move closer to Silverstone.

Aired 14 February 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple with 600,000 pounds find their dream home in North Yorkshire.

Aired 15 February 2012 • 45 min

Aled Jones helps a couple with 500,000 pounds escape to the Chilterns.

Aired 16 February 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple with a large budget of 1.2 million pounds.

Aired 17 February 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin attempts to find a country home for a family of returning ex-pats.

Aired 20 February 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple to find a home in the Monmouthshire countryside.

Aired 21 February 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson joins the house search in the Peak District to help a military family.

Aired 22 February 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps a couple to find a home in rural Gloucestershire.

Aired 23 February 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton goes house hunting in Cornwall with a couple with a budget of £875,000.

Aired 24 February 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton seeks a country residence in the Cotswolds for a couple of teachers.

Aired 16 April 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple who have lived in London nearly all their lives.

Aired 17 April 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps a GP and his wife relocate to Stirling in Scotland.

Aired 18 April 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps a couple with a budget of 425,000 pounds who want to move to the north Norfolk coast. Nicki also heads to Blakeney Point to spot grey seals in their natural habitat.

Aired 19 April 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a first-time buyer who has spent more than 40 years in the same home.

Aired 20 April 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a newly-married couple find a new home in the Shropshire countryside.

Aired 23 April 2012 • 45 min

Aled Jones joins the search in Northern Ireland to help a couple of newlyweds find a home.

Aired 24 April 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton joins a couple of globetrotters who are now ready to put down roots.

Aired 25 April 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson seeks out a rural retreat in Wiltshire for a couple with a £500,000 budget.

Aired 26 April 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton is helping a couple buy their first home together in Worcestershire.

Aired 27 April 2012 • 45 min

Following a battle with breast cancer, these buyers have refocused their priorities and decided to move to rural Kent. With a budget of 700,000 pounds Nicki Chapman shows them three superb properties before heading off to the annual Whitstable Oyster Festival.

Aired 30 April 2012 • 45 min

Aled Jones helps a couple with a 600,000 pound budget search for a country home in Dorset. Plus, Aled tries his hand at the traditional craft of blacksmithing.

Aired 1 May 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton goes house hunting with a couple in East Sussex.

Aired 2 May 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson helps a couple search for a country home on the Pembrokeshire coast.

Aired 3 May 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman travels to the Suffolk countryside to help a couple find a new home for 500,000 pounds. While in Suffolk, Nicki gets a glimpse of some of the region's newly-born barn owls, part of a successful project to protect their declining numbers.

Aired 4 May 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton joins the hunt for an artistic couple buying their first home together.

Aired 8 May 2012 • 45 min

Jules discovers the hidden secrets of watercress at one of Hampshire's farms.

Aired 9 May 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps a couple with a budget of £500,000 find a country home in Devon with a holiday let and enough land for goats. Away from the house hunt, Denise joins in the final harvest of the season at Devon's oldest vineyard.

Aired 10 May 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple who want to escape to the Nottinghamshire countryside for a budget of 450,000 pounds. During his journey, Alistair heads to Southwell to uncover the story behind one of Britain's most famous apples, the Bramley.

Aired 11 May 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie slips on his dancing shoes for a routine showcasing Suffolk's musical heritage.

Aired 14 May 2012 • 45 min

Jules Hudson travels to North Devon to help a military couple who are looking to put down roots in the countryside for a budget of £500,000. Plus, Jules catches up with a pair of escapees who found their dream home in a previous series.

Aired 15 May 2012 • 45 min

Denise Nurse helps a family find a country home in the expensive county of Surrey.

Aired 16 May 2012 • 45 min

Nicki Chapman helps a buyer who has been dreaming of moving to Cornwall for over 30 years.

Aired 17 May 2012 • 45 min

Alistair Appleton helps a couple look for a country residence in north east Wales.

Aired 18 May 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a couple relocate from Bishops Stortford to the Yorkshire Dales.

Aired 21 May 2012 • 45 min

Jonnie Irwin helps a retired Cornwall couple who are ready to tackle a renovation project.