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.

Kate meets a family from Essex who have bought four acres of woodland in Suffolk to escape the growing development and noise pollution of their Rochford home. They plan to develop bird photography and beekeeping businesses, while a vegetable garden offers the opportunity to become completely self-sufficient.

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 meets Georgie and Robin Monaghan, whose life of full-time work and children is taking its toll. They're tired of their bungalow in Worthing, East Sussex and want to bring up three-year-old Ryn and one-year-old Macsen away from the stresses and pollution of the city. They are planning to sell their bungalow, and have their eye on a character-packed detached house in the village of Shebbear in Devon.

A couple from Bracknell plan to make a fresh start in Aberdeenshire, after one of them has had open-heart surgery and is seeking a less work-oriented lifestyle. Their new home is a detached property with outbuildings and an acre of land where they intend to keep goats and hens alongside their existing menagerie of rabbits and cats - but with no personal support network in Scotland, things may not be as relaxed as they hope.

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.

The presenter meets more folks embarking on ambitious moves to pastures new, beginning with Kathryn and Steve. Along with their six children, they are leaving Solihull for the Welsh Borders. They've bought a dilapidated house in dire need of upgrading to make it liveable for their large family. It's currently two dwellings that they need to turn back into one big house with enough bedrooms for all the kids.

The presenter meets four generations of one family who are desperate to leave the busy seaside town of Eastbourne for a quieter country life. Melissa and Dan are giving up their full-time jobs to concentrate on their new adventure with their two young girls, and they've bought a 12.5-acre smallholding in rural north Devon. Melissa's mum and dad are also selling up and coming along with them - and they're bringing Melissa's grandmother.

The presenter joins Jodie and Ben, their two small children and two massive dogs at the cramped rented house they've been calling home for years. Having spent all their lives in Essex, they want to step away from the convenience of the city and appreciate life's adventures in the remote Welsh countryside.

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 and the new pup for some training with a local expert. With 15% of the world's seal population living on Orkney, Sharon finds out more about these local inhabitants and is inspired by a visit to the island's rescue centre during pupping season. Will this Bristolian trio adapt to island life way up north and find their feet in their new community? And can they cope with the weather in one of the remotest spots in the UK?

Kate meets a couple moving nearly 700 miles to Orkney, along with over 80 animals.

The presenter returns to Shropshire to meet the Goldby family, who traded in life in suburban Epsom for a quiet hamlet. Has balancing the day job with home schooling and the daily routine of running a smallholding been a step too far or the very essence of the good life?

Kate revisits Georgie and Robin Monaghan, who traded in their suburban home in Worthing, East Sussex, for a detached house in the village of Shebbear in Devon. The couple had plans to convert the outbuilding into a holiday let and develop an allotment and rear hens to live a more sustainable life, but with work and occasional commuting, plus two young boys to raise, it wasn't going to be without its challenges, especially when they were thrown a very complicated cancer-shaped curve ball.

Kate revisits Sam and Lucy Auger-Forbes, who trade in their suburban home in Rochford, Essex, for their very own woodland and a very different life in rural Suffolk. Sam had plans to use the woodland as the centre of a bird photography and bushcraft business, while with Lucy working locally it would mean less time on her stressful commute and more time together as a family with their son Harvey.

Fifteen months since her last visit, Kate catches up with a couple who sold their Hemel Hempstead terraced home and moved to a traditional Welsh farmhouse in Pembrokeshire.

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.