Escape To River Cottage cover art

Escape To River Cottage Reviews

1999 Certificate 15
  • 80
  • from 1456 members

Some may think of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as slightly eccentric. After all his books feature chapters on the best way to catch and eat the likes of garden pigeons and squirrels. However, amongst the slightly less practical features he provides a wealth of information on sensible ways to escape the urban sprawl and live off .. Read more

Starring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Director Zam Baring, Andrew Palmer, Billy Paulett
Genres Documentary

Buy From: £6.93

loading loading...

  • Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Escape To River Cottage

    View all
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    Extremely well presented, very good TV.

    I'd watched a few of these on channel 4, but never really made the effort to actually sit and watch them fully, if it was on I'd watch it sort of thing... more

      • A customer from Wales
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    Get away from it all

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has escaped the "rat-race" of city life to live off the land, growing his own vegetables and rearing animals. He guides ... more

      • miztas from Hants
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    This is really good watching - entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. You can't help but empathise with Hugh and what he's trying to achieve ... more

      • mylady#1 from WIVELISCOMBE
  • Most recent members' reviews (2) of Escape To River Cottage

    View all
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    This is really good watching - entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. You can't help but empathise with Hugh and what he's trying to achieve ... more

      • mylady#1 from WIVELISCOMBE
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    Get away from it all

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has escaped the "rat-race" of city life to live off the land, growing his own vegetables and rearing animals. He guides ... more

      • miztas from Hants
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    Extremely well presented, very good TV.

    I'd watched a few of these on channel 4, but never really made the effort to actually sit and watch them fully, if it was on I'd watch it sort of thing... more

      • A customer from Wales
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    Get away from it all

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has escaped the "rat-race" of city life to live off the land, growing his own vegetables and rearing animals. He guides ... more

      • miztas from Hants
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5.0 stars

    This is really good watching - entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. You can't help but empathise with Hugh and what he's trying to achieve ... more

      • mylady#1 from WIVELISCOMBE
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4.0 stars

    Lazy Sunday Afternoon

    This is one for a lazy Sunday evening, watch this when you want to put your feet up and enjoy some down to earth documentary (Literally). This is as down to ... more

      • Fasp77 from Gloucestershire
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4.0 stars

    Great story

    A wonderful story of one of things (many) of us dream about -- chucking the city life and growing all of our own food, living off the land, etc. It seems so ... more

      • ronneal123 from London
  • Rated - 5.0 stars

    Nice Easy Viewing

    Although we had seen this before, this was an excellent DVD to rent and assisted in letting early winter by nice and gently.

      • A customer from Wakefield
  • Rated - 4.0 stars

    Most Enjoyable

    The first series of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage sees his initial escape to the country and the trials and tribulations of becoming self-... more

      • A customer from farnborough, hampshire
  • Rated - 5.0 stars

    Great stuff

    Follow Hugh through a year at river cottage as he samples life as a smallholder, raising his own animals and growing his own vegetables, living off the fat of ... more

      • Dave from Barnsley, South Yorkshire
  • Rated - 5.0 stars

    Good viewing after a hard day

    A very envious lifestyle, this series introduce the characters we become familiar with over the course of the 4 series. After a long day at work it was nice to ... more

      • Simon Gambling from Hatton
  • Rated - 5.0 stars

    excellent

    hugh down on the farm up to his eyes in sh.. good to watch again

      • glenn from bury lancs
Good review materials:
  • Highlights of the DVD's content and context
  • What you liked and disliked and why
  • How the DVD compares to other similar titles
Poor review materials:
  • Tiny reviews - give us at least a full sentence
  • Inappropriate or adult-only content, such as obscene, libellous or rude
  • Promotional content such as alternative ordering/pricing information
  • Reviews mentioning LOVEFiLM by name
Your name:
Your location:
Nickname:
Review title:
  • 80

Contains spoiler?

Please note that if you write a spoiler (what's this?) without warning other members, LOVEFiLM reserves its rights to blacklist you and discard any further submissions you make to www.lovefilm.com.

Your submission must be your own original work and will normally be posted on this web site within 1 business day. Please do not include HTML tags; for a new paragraph, insert a blank line.

Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop


    • Escape To River Cottage
    • DVD: £6.93
      Free Delivery
    • RRP £24.49 (you save: 72%)
    • Some may think of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as slightly eccentric. After all his books feature chapters on the best way to catch and eat the likes of garden pigeons and squirrels. However, amongst ...

Rating breakdown

1,456 Member ratings
  • 100
384
  • 90
197
  • 80
300
  • 70
201
  • 60
144
  • 50
81
  • 40
36
  • 30
35
  • 20
49
  • 10
29

Related user collection

Celebrity collection

Audrey Tatou (5)

Average rating: 3.46   69.2% from 125 members