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Name
  
Jules Hudson

Role
  
Archaeologist


Partner
  
Tania Fitzgerald

Children
  
Jack Hudson

Jules Hudson smiling while sitting on the stairs, wearing a black striped coat and pants, white long sleeves, black socks, and brown shoes.


TV shows
  
Escape to the Country, Countryfile

Similar People
  
Alistair Appleton, Nicki Chapman, Jonnie Irwin, Denise Nurse, Martin Roberts

Jules Hudson


Julian "Jules" Hudson (born 9 January 1970), is an English archaeologist and television producer and presenter, best known for presenting the BBC Two series Escape to the Country. He also frequently presents sections of the environmental documentary series Countryfile on BBC 1.

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Jules Hudson smiling while leaning on the bridge on the top of a river, wearing a jacket, over a brown vest, and checkered multi-colored polo shirt.

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Facts

He is an English archaeologist and television presenter.
He is best known for presenting the BBC Two series Escape to the Country. 

His father was a Mechanical engineer.

He was the initial presenter on BBC One's Britain's Empty Homes, fronting the first series from January 2010 to February 2012.

In 2015 Jules Hudson became President of CPRW, a Welsh national charity. 

Early life

Jules Hudson smiling while holding a black dog biting a branch of a tree, wearing a green jacket over a blue checkered polo shirt, and blue jeans.

Hudson was born in the town of Colchester, in Essex, in 1970. He is the son of Pam and Cliff Hudson. He was brought up in a Bed and Breakfast hotel run by his mother for 40 years, in the former village of Lexden, now a suburb of Colchester. His father was a mechanical engineer and a technical director at Bentalls, a department store in the large village of Heybridge in the Maldon District of Essex, frequently working abroad.

Jules Hudson smiling beside hay while his arms crossed on his chest beside, wearing a gray sweatshirt over a white shirt, and black pants.

Hudson attributes his conversational style of presentation to his experience from a young age of meeting people at the bed and breakfast from many different backgrounds and nationalities.

Education

Jules Hudson smiling and wearing light blue long sleeves.

Hudson was educated at two independent schools: at Colchester High School, a day school in his home-town of Colchester in Essex, followed by Ipswich School, a boarding and day school in the county town of Ipswich in Suffolk, where he boarded from the age of eleven. After school, he studied Field Archaeology at Lampeter University (renamed the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1996), in the town of Lampeter in Ceredigion in south west Wales, followed by military training at RMA Sandhurst in Berkshire. He later took a Masters degree in Archaeology at Durham University.

Life and career

Jules Hudson smiling with his wife Tania and other staff on his program. Jules wearing light blue long sleeves and blue pants while Tania wearing a white and red striped shirt and blue pants.

Hudson moved into TV production in 1996, focusing on historical programmes.

Jules Hudson smiling with a single-seat fighter-bomber on his back and wearing a green long sleeve coat over a white knitted shirt.

Working initially for Discovery Channel, he then moved to Channel 4's Time Team, BBC 2's Horizon, and three military history series for the BBC's Richard Holmes. After becoming lead presenter on ITV Meridian's The Making of England, and making Have I Been Here Before? with Phillip Schofield, he developed and produced the series Revival for ITV, which gained a Royal Television Society nomination.

Since 2007, he has been the main presenter on the BBC's Escape to the Country. He was the initial presenter on BBC One's Britain's Empty Homes, fronting the first series from January 2010 to February 2012. He has presented Defenders of the Sky for the History Channel H2 from March 2015.

President, Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, (CPRW)

In 2015 Jules Hudson became President of CPRW, a Welsh national charity that aims to secure the protection and enhancement of the country's landscapes and environment. He has entered enthusiastically into work of the charity and in November 2015 re-launched the Best kept village competition for Montgomeryshire. It is hoped that this will evolve into a competition covering all of Wales.

Personal life

Hudson lives in a period home in Herefordshire with his wife Tania and son, Jack.

References

Jules Hudson Wikipedia
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