Some familiar local sights - and faces - were featured on the BBC's Escape to the Country this week.

This week, a local landlord, the Rutland Blogger and a Rutland-based radio presenter featured on the property-hunt programme, filmed for BBC One.

Charlie, the Rutland Blogger, was intervewed for the programme. Image credit: screenshot / BBC One Escape to the Country.

In Series 24, Episode 7 of the long running television programme, a couple from America hunt for a home in the East Midlands, and are taken by the small county of Rutland, highlighted throughout the episode as a county that doesn't brag it's brilliance, but offers and awful lot in a small area - or 'much in little' as the county's motto 'Multum in Parvo' promises.

In the episode, Tim and Jo, who were based in Virginia, USA, are looking to trade the large American lifestyle for something a little more modest in Rutland, Leicestershire or Lincolnshire.

The couple had £1.5 million to spend and were looking for a detached character property with at least three bedrooms, three bathrooms and close to village amenities.

A section of the programme is filmed in the scenic Rutland, in the Falcon hotel at the heart of the village.

This is where they met radio presenter Rob Persani, the morning presenter of Rutland & Stamford Sound, who described Uppingham as beautiful in the summer, and "Dickensian" in the winter.

But did Rob sell the idyllic village to the international duo?

Check out the episode here to find out.

Rob chatting to house hunters, Tim and Jo. Image credit: screenshot / BBC One Escape to the Country.

Led by local celeb, Rob Persani, Rutland and Stamford Sound is an independent rural radio station covering events in England's smallest county and Lincolnshire's Georgian market town of Stamford.

The radio station was set up in march 2021, and has been providing local content for the rural Rutland and Stamford communities since.

Now, Rob has popped out from behind the radio desk and in front of a camera, even just for a couple of hours, while filming for BBC One's Escape to the Country in Uppingham.

He is also on a mission, alongside the local MP, Alicia Kearns, to get an FM licence for the community radio station.

Read more about the campaign to get Rutland and Stamford Sound a licence, or watch BBC's Escape to the Country on BBC iPlayer to find out if Tim and Jo loved Rutland enough to settle down here.