And having been invited round for tea and cake in the fabulous kitchen of his Herefordshire home, we can see why!

It was a total wreck, I rebuilt it from scratch with the help of a redevelopment grant.

In those days you could park a boat in St Katharine Docks in London for £50 a week. To get rid of the mortgage and have enough money to feel secure.

My greatest weakness is… I am a sucker for ordering burgers.

What is the one little luxury you treat yourself to? My investments are probably on the floor right now. My best friend is… Nick Green, who also works in TV.

Jules Hudson is known for presenting Escape To The Country.

So it laid the foundations not just of my love affair with property, but also my career. Not a lot of people know this but I’m very good at… building. It usually involves a few trips around our old haunts in Soho.

I came out because the regiment I was going to join after Sandhurst got chopped in some defence cuts. I think Bill would probably encompass a lot of what I am about.

He drives it every day to get firewood and terrorises our two labradors with it. We both started in television around 25 years ago and he is now a big producer. The first record I ever bought was… Dire Straits’ Love Over Gold. I'm a keen military history buff and I add to my collection every couple of years. I would do more to help people who are self-employed like me and work in the media. I’ve just taken my wood burner apart and renovated it. And that's how my career came about. Military history is one of Jules biggest passions outside of his job. Plus, both my parents invested in pension schemes which went bust and they lost their money. View the profiles of people named Jules Hudson. My job was to fillet squid and I hate fish. In Armenia, all kids learn to play chess. TV presenter Jules Hudson says he once lost £1,600 to a scammer on eBay.

My nickname is… I was christened Julian and I soon became Jules at school.

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The programme is superb. Archaeologist and historian Jules Hudson is primarily beguiled by the walls themselves and what they reveal about the evolution of horticultural and social history.

Countryfile and Escape To The Country presenter Jules Hudson Jules, 48, lives in Herefordshire with his wife Tania and their son Jack. The one thing I’d change about myself is… I would like to have a better memory. Yet his passion for the past has also brought an enthusiastic and accessible approach to military history, notably Dig 1940, Dive World War 2, and How we won the War, all for the BBC. They put me through boarding school, but we were by no means wealthy – we weren't the sort of family who went to Spain every Easter and skied every winter. Published by National Trust Books on 3 April 2020. Yes I have, absolutely.

The head of daytime BBC knew about it and suggested I would be the perfect person to get involved with the programme.

We bought it in 2012 for £600,000 and we have spent about £100,000 on it.

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I’d like to say sorry to… I don’t think there is anyone.

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If I could pass any law I would… make kids learn how to play chess to get them to make decisions. It’s my spiritual home. your own Pins on Pinterest

This was then followed by a stint training to be an Army officer at Sandhurst before returning to archaeology for his Masters degree at Durham University. I wish I had a better short-term memory where I didn’t forget stuff that matters at home. Sadly, I'm not. What is your number one financial priority? There have been occasions where I have earned a week's wages in an afternoon. It was in Llanddewi-Brefi, a small village in the countryside and dates back to about 1800.

I transferred the money directly into his account and learnt a hard lesson. At the end, I had a little weep.

Click the more button to email us, *Transactions under £40,000 do not require a tax return to be filed with HMRC and are not subject to the higher rates. I think I got something like £120 a week. Graduating in 1995 from Durham, Jules ventured into television just one year later. His interests in country life, archaeology, architecture and both social and military history have combined with his natural warmth and good humour to deliver a wide ranging and memorable raft of series.