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Escape to the Country: Series 4
May 6, 2008
19 Episodes
~45 min per episode
Overview
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Episodes
19
1
Twickenham to North Oxfordshire
May 6, 2008
45 min
Catherine Gee meets a family living in a Victorian terrace in Twickenham who are tired of the noise from the motorway and the Heathrow flight path. She helps them fulfil their dreams of finding some peace and quiet in north Oxfordshire on a budget of £500,000
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2
Forest Hill to Kent
Oct 9, 2006
45 min
Kalle Hogh and partner Daniel Friend are looking to trade in their cramped one bedroom flat in London for a cottage in commutable Kent. Having both grown up in the countryside they want to return to their roots. Catherine Gee has a budget of £250,000 to find them a home with a garden and enough space for friends to stay.
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3
Hampstead to Cotswolds
May 8, 2008
45 min
Advertising executive Jules Hinds has had enough of city life. Despite living in one of London's most desirable postcodes, NW3, she wants to swap her two bed Hampstead flat for a chocolate box cottage in the Cotswolds. To achieve her goal she has given Catherine Gee a wide ranging budget - between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds. But will Catherine have to spend all of her funds to find Jules the house of her dreams?
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5
Aylesbury to North Cornwall
May 21, 2008
45 min
John and his daughter Emma are looking for a house in Cornwall to indulge their passion for extreme sports.
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6
Chafford Hundred to Kent
Mar 23, 2007
45 min
A family try to move away from their estate near the M25 into the Kent countryside, hoping their £300,000 budget can find them a period property with space for a photography dark room. They need to be near London, and want good schools. shops and pubs nearby - a real challenge for expert Catherine Gee
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8
Cardiff to Gwynedd
Feb 23, 2007
45 min
Catherine Gee helps a bilingual couple move from Cardiff and return to their rural roots in the Welsh valleys and mountains. Rhys works as a fishing officer for the Welsh Tourist Board and is looking to indulge his favourite pastime more often, while Gwyneth is about to give birth to their second child and wants to be settled before the arrival
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10
Nottinghamshire to Lincolnshire
45 min
Catherine Gee comes to the rescue of the Smithson family from Nottingham who want to swap their three-bedroom, Thirties home for a property in the Lincolnshire countryside with a large garden on a budget of £300,000
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11
Taunton to Dorset
Aug 23, 2007
45 min
Tim Fisher and Bea Reitmeier have found love in later life with each other and are now looking to set up their first home together. Luckily, Tim works as a garden designer and Bea as a property developer. But can Catherine Gee find them what they're after, in an increasingly expensive area, with a budget of £500,000.
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14
Sutton to Suffolk
Mar 28, 2007
45 min
Having lived in London's greenest borough for 11 years, Clare Ladd and her partner David Hackett are ready to swap city life for a B&B venture in the country. They restored their Edwardian house to its former glory and are now looking for a country house, ripe for refurbishment and renovation. Catherine Gee has a budget of 360,000 pounds to find it.
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16
Dulwich to Hampshire
Mar 30, 2007
45 min
Simon and Sam Clough have just had their first child and woken up to the fact that most of their friends have moved out of London. In a bid to follow them, they're looking for a detached family house in Hampshire, with a budget of up to £700,000.
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17
Leeds to North Yorkshire
Mar 7, 2007
45 min
Alison Taft and partner Mark Rusten have lived in their five-bedroom Edwardian house for five years. But with two small children and a front garden that leads to a busy road, they are looking to downsize to a smaller country house with a bigger garden.
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18
Port Talbot to North Devon
Mar 8, 2007
45 min
Catherine Gee meets a family with £700,000 to spend, who want to swap their Port Talbot home with one on the north coast of Devon. Dad Steve runs a diving and marine repairs business in Swansea and plans to commute by boat, while his wife Pippa hopes her individual tastes won't be compromised by the move
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19
Stratford-upon-Avon to Somerset
Mar 9, 2007
45 min
A couple decide to retire to the country following a cancer scare, and look for a quiet period cottage on a budget of £350,000
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20
Westbury-on-Tryn to Wiltshire
Mar 12, 2007
45 min
A Bristol-based couple who met while involved in a property sale, and who also own a place in France, hope to sell their home in the UK and buy another in the Wiltshire countryside on a budget of £300,000. Catherine Gee presents
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21
Manchester to Derbyshire
Mar 13, 2007
45 min
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a conservationist and a former air hostess who are searching for a two-bedroom cottage in the rural Peak District on a budget of £250,000
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22
Liverpool to the Wash
Mar 14, 2007
45 min
Catherine Gee helps a 60-year-old woman who has lived in her eight-bedroom Liverpool house since birth to scale-down her work as a complementary therapist and move somewhere quieter, but with a large garden and on a budget of £200,000
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23
Bury to the Wold
Mar 15, 2007
45 min
A couple who met in a Manchester bar in 2004 and are about to get married hope to swap their homes in Cheadle and Bury for a detached house in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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24
Battersea to North Norfolk
Mar 16, 2007
45 min
Catherine Gee meets a 75-year-old woman and her daughter who have £300,000 to spend on a four-bedroom house with views of the country or the sea in Norfolk
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25
Torquay to East Anglia
Mar 19, 2007
45 min
The Haines are looking to swap the tourist hot spot of Torquay for the rural charms of East Anglia. With half a million pounds to find the detached property of their dreams it sounds like a simple job for Catherine Gee. But not when she's also got to find a fully functional annex for the family's grandparents, Pat and Len.
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