The first episode features the Cook family from Exeter, who plan to move to the other end of the country and make a fresh start in the Shetland Islands. They plan to fund their new lifestyle through AirBnB and an isolated space for authors, but their move is complicated by a serious illness in the family.
Kate meets the Goldby family from Epsom, where Vicki, Phil and their nine children have outgrown their four-bedroom house - which has only one bathroom. They have found a farmhouse with three bathrooms and scope for seven bedrooms, as well as more than two acres of land.
The presenter meets a Hemel Hempstead couple starting a new life in a traditional Welsh farmhouse, and plan to make the 31 acres of land that come with the property work for them by building glamping pods and keeping pigs, cows, sheep and chickens. However, before they can even get started, a local case of TB threatens to derail their entire project, and a wet winter and some surprising personal news only add to the obstacles in their path.
Kate Humble follows people who have started new lives in the country. In Wales, she meets Richard and Dawn who have moved to a traditional Welsh longhouse, 76 miles west in rural Ceredigion. This ambitious move will not only make them all mortgage-free, but give them the chance to live off the land and become burgeoning rural entrepreneurs.
Kate Humble visits Reading, where mum Helen, dad Ash and their two sons, Ben and Joe, plus a small menagerie of animals-are bursting out of their cramped two-bed suburban bungalow.
Kate meets married couple Matt and Uzma feeling crammed into a two-bedroom flat.
This time, Kate is in Norfolk to meet married couple Kat and Louis who have decided it is time for a completely fresh start in the country. With Louis's parents Mark and Sue also making this move, the two generations of family have pooled their financial resources and have managed to find a stunning 18th century former-mill house, set within three acres of idyllic Norfolk countryside.
The presenter is in London to meet Ria, a woman on a mission who - despite the reservations of friends and family - is looking to follow her long-held dream of a life in the English countryside. Tired of the capital's noise, pollution and long commutes, and unable to afford its property prices, Ria is trading in her cramped, one-bed rented flat, costing her £1,250 a month, and making the move 130 miles west to rural Somerset to buy her very first home.
Kate is in Devon, where couple Sid and Sarah want to realise their long-held dream of living in a big house in the country. They have found a stunning five-bedroom farmhouse with four acres of land, complete with outbuildings that Sid has already earmarked for a fantastic workshop, and enough outdoor space to keep hens and grow their own fruit and vegetables.
Kate meets a family of eight leaving Solihull for the Welsh Borders. They've bought a dilapidated house in dire need of upgrading to make it liveable for their family.
Four generations of one family are desperate to leave the busy seaside town of Eastbourne for a quieter country life, giving up their jobs to concentrate on their new adventure.
dogs at the cramped rented house they've been calling home for years. Having their lives in Essex, they want to step away.
Kate is in Ipswich, where teachers Rob and Nicola have been so desperate to move to the country for a whole new adventure that they've even split their family in two to make it happen. With Rob set to retire, and their three teenage sons getting ready to fly the nest, the couple scoured the country looking for the best place to make their forever home. They finally plumped for County Tyrone in rural Northern Ireland.
In this new series she's following others as they do just the same. Today she meets Pete and Sharon who are moving nearly 700 miles from Bristol to Orkney with Sharon's mum Lynne and their 80+ animals. After finding love later in the life, these two are leaving their cramped suburban semi for seven stunning acres of island countryside. Packing up their old life in Bristol is quite a feat, with everything from horses and sheep to goats and geese all making the ferry journey across the North Sea to their new home. Sharon has given up her full-time job to concentrate on their menagerie of animals while Pete is trying to get some plumbing work on the Island to tide them over. But he's kept busy getting their new smallholding safe for all the animals, including new fencing to keep their ducks safe from the island sea otters. More animals appear when Kate goes back to visit, as the arrival of a new sheepdog puppy is keeping them on their toes. Kate gets Pete straight to work and takes him an
Kate Humble meets Pete and Sharon who are moving nearly 700 miles from Bristol to Orkney along with over 80 animals. These two are leaving their cramped suburban semi for seven stunning acres of island countryside - and everything from horses and sheep to goats and geese are all coming along.
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.
