A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble

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.