Jules Hudson
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9 January 1970
Ipswich School, Suffolk
Durham University
- Archaeologist
- television producer
- television presenter
- former army officer
Jules Hudson | |
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| Born | Julian Harold Hudson [1] 9 January 1970 Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Colchester High School, Essex Ipswich School, Suffolk |
| Alma mater | Lampeter University Durham University |
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| Website | https://www.juleshudson.co.uk |
Julian Harold Hudson[1] (born 9 January 1970) is an English archaeologist, television producer and presenter, best known for presenting the BBC series Escape to the Country. He also frequently presents sections of the environmental documentary series Countryfile on BBC One.
Hudson was born in 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.[2]
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.[2]
Education
Hudson was educated at two independent schools: at Colchester High School and later Ipswich 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.[2] He attended Durham from 1994-1995 and was a member of University College.[3]
