Jules Hudson

Julian 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.

Early life

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 E H Bentall & Co in the large village of Heybridge in the Maldon District of Essex, frequently working abroad.[1]

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.[1]

Education

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 master's degree in Archaeology at Durham University.[1] He attended Durham from 1994-1995 and was a member of University College.[2]

Life and career

After initially briefly pursuing a career as an army officer, Hudson moved into TV production in 1996, focusing on historical programmes.[3]

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.[3] 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.

In August 2017 he graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was comissioned as a reserve officer in the Royal Engineers.[4]

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.[5] It is hoped that this will evolve into a competition covering all of Wales.[6]

Personal life

Hudson lives in Herefordshire with his wife Tania and son, Jack.[7] Hudson is also an amateur organist and often played the organ in the college chapel at Lampeter / organist review 1993

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References
  1. Pat Parker (22 August 2015). "My 'Escape to the Country' dream" (PDF). EA Life. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  2. "EBulletin". Durham Newswire. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. "Jules Hudson". The Speakers Agency. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
  4. https://www.forces.net/stories/lead-follow-or-get-out-way-military-mantra-tvs-jules-hudson-lives
  5. Montgomeryshire Branch CPRW
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2015-10-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Jules Hudson official website http://www.juleshudson.com/#works
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