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Escape To The Country
''Escape to the Country'' is a British daytime television property-buying/ real estate programme that has been on the air since 14 October 2002. The show was originally produced by Talkback Thames and first aired on BBC One, with repeats on BBC Two. It has gained international syndication. Production later moved to Naked West, a division of Fremantle Media. The programme is commonly referred to as "Escape" among viewers. The show consistently ranks as the top-rated programme in its daytime time slot on BBC One, and has a significant global social media presence. Format The show features potential home buyers searching for their dream homes in rural UK areas. The buyers view three or four properties for sale, including a "mystery house," in their chosen county or region. The houses they visit can include rentals, new-builds, kit-homes, market town addresses, renovation projects, or even plots of land with potential for building. After inspecting each house, the presenter asks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality TV
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as '' The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idol'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature the gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony May Williams
Briony May Williams (born ) is a British celebrity chef and presenter. She appeared on series 9 of ''The Great British Bake Off'' in 2018, finishing fourth. She presents the cooking show '' Food Unwrapped'' and the reality housing show ''Escape to the Country'', and writes recipe columns for ''BristolLife'' and the supermarket Asda's ''Good Living''. Personal life Williams is from Bristol, England. She was born with a physical birth defect in her left hand, which stops after her wrist and thumb – she calls it her "little hand". Williams said that her family did not use the word ''disability'' due to stigma around the term. She had some specialised equipment, such as a recorder (musical instrument), recorder provided by the disability charity Reach that could be played one-handed, but learned to complete tasks like tying her shoelaces unaided. Williams attended an all-girls secondary school. Since her early 20s, she has experienced depression. After studying Spanish and French a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Rani
Anita Rani Nazran (born 25 October 1977), better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter. Early life Rani was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and grew up in Heaton, West Yorkshire, Heaton and Odsal. Her parents were Indian-born, and her father immigrated to the UK at the age of four. Her father is a Hindus, Hindu and her mother is a Sikhs, Sikh. Her parents started a textile manufacturing business, where Rani and her siblings worked at times in their youth. The business failed in the 1990s. In an episode of ''Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series), Who Do You Think You Are?'' first broadcast on 1 October 2015 on BBC One, Rani investigated the history of her maternal grandfather Sant Singh (born Sant Ram, in Sarhali, Tarn Taran, Sarhali in 1916, died 1975), in particular learning more about his first wife and children, who died during the violence of the Partition of India in 1947, while he was a thousand miles away in Khadki, Kirkee, serving i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aled Jones
Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer, radio and television presenter, and actor. As a teenage chorister, he gained widespread fame in 1985 with his recording of " Walking in the Air", which reached No 5 in the UK pop chart. He has since worked in television with the BBC and ITV, and on radio for the BBC and Classic FM. In September 2012, Jones joined ITV Breakfast, where he presented '' Daybreak'' (2012–2014), alongside Lorraine Kelly and Kate Garraway. For the BBC, he has presented ''Songs of Praise'' (since 2004), '' Cash in the Attic'' (2010–2012), '' Escape to the Country'' (2009–2013), and ''Going Back Giving Back'' (since 2016). Career 1970-1990 Jones was born in St. David's Hospital in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, the only child of Nest Rowlands, a teacher, and Derek John Jones, a draughtsman for a shipbuilder. He was raised in the small Welsh-speaking community of Llandegfan on Anglesey, and attended Ysgol David Hughes (a secondary school). Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonnie Irwin
Jonathan James Irwin (18 November 1973 – 2 February 2024) was an English television presenter, writer, lecturer, businessman, and property expert. He was best known for presenting the Channel 4 lifestyle programme '' A Place in the Sun'' between 2004 and 2021, as well as the BBC daytime programme ''Escape to the Country'' between 2010 and 2023. Early life Irwin was born on 18 November 1973 in Rugby, Warwickshire, to Avie ( Orr) and James Irwin, a property developer. He grew up on a small farm in the village of Bitteswell, Leicestershire. He was educated at Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College. He obtained a degree from Birmingham City University in estate management. Irwin's father was Irish. Career Irwin worked for business transfer specialists Christie & Co, becoming an associate director within three years, before going on to work for Colliers International. In 2004, he was selected from hundreds of applicants along with co-presenter Jasmine Harman to present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Porter
Melissa Porter (born 18 December 1972) is an English television presenter, best known for her BBC programmes '' To Buy or Not to Buy'' and ''Escape to the Country''. Early life Melissa Jayne Tindiglia was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, the middle of three sisters of Italian-Czech parentage. Her father was an importer of luxury Italian motorcars. Porter got the property bug from her parents as they moved from one house renovation project to the next in Cheshire. Career After graduating with a degree in Retail Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University, Porter worked as a marketing manager for Marks & Spencer, Kodak and a brand manager for Playtex. She then worked as a professional relocator for a company based in Knightsbridge. While on a team building exercise, her colleagues suggested she ought to consider a career in television. Porter put a show reel together and CV, and got her first break in 2002 on Granada TV's ''Men and Motors''. Porter then moved to the BBC, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Genome Project
The BBC Genome Project is an online searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the ''Radio Times'' from the first issue in 1923 to 2009. Television listings from post-2009 can be accessed via the BBC Programmes site. History Prior BBC Genome is not the BBC's first online searchable database. In April 2006, they gave the public access to Infax – their only electronic programme database at the time. It contained around 900,000 entries but not every programme ever broadcast, and it ceased operation in December 2007. The front page of the website is still available to see via the Internet Archive. After Infax ceased, a message on the website said that it would be incorporating in the information into individual programme pages. In 2012, Infax was replaced by the database Fabric but this is only for internal use within the BBC. ''Radio Times'' In December 2012, the BBC completed a digitisation exercise, scanning the listings from ''Radio Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Brown (wheelchair Rugby)
Stephen Brown (born 2 June 1981) is an English television presenter, public speaker, athlete mentor and a former member and captain of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad. Early life Brown was raised in a family that supported Crystal Palace Football Club and was inspired by them. He attended Borden Grammar School in Sittingbourne, Kent and represented the school in football, cricket and cross-country. Alongside his sport, Brown's greatest pleasure was in exploring the countryside around his home. His interest was so great that he wanted to be a wildlife presenter. "''If I wasn't playing football with my mates I was catching tadpoles and slowworms, and I loved programmes like The Really Wild Show and everything with David Attenborough. So that’s what I wanted to be. But the careers master just told me I wouldn't be able to do that and to forget it."'' Injury and recovery At the age of 23, Brown fell from a first-floor balcony while working in Germany as an area m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Buckley
Virginia Louise Buckley (born 1 April 1968 in Rochdale) is a British journalist, radio and television presenter. Early life Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England, before moving to Australia at the age of 18. She started her career early, appearing regularly from the age of 12 for BBC local radio in Manchester, where she presented a children's radio programme. At the age of 12 she appeared on the BBC children's programme ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop'', where she interviewed Noel Edmonds, David Bellamy and the pop group Sad Café. Buckley also worked as an actress appearing in numerous plays for BBC Radio and studied Performance Arts and Media Studies at Oldham's Grange Arts Centre. Broadcasting career At the age of 18, Buckley moved to Australia; she lived in Sydney and worked for several years in commercial radio. She worked as a junior in the newsroom at 2UW and later at Triple M, first in the news room and then as a producer for the show ''Club Veg''. She went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonali Shah
Sonali Shah (born 26 July 1980 in Edgware, London) is a British television and radio broadcaster who currently presents Sunday Breakfast on Magic Radio as well as BBC television programme '' Escape to the Country'', ITV's Tonight and has her own segment on Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch. She is well known for presenting the BBC's children's news programme '' Newsround'' from July 2006 until November 2011. Some other notable programmes Shah has presented are '' The National Lottery Draws,'' '' Crimewatch and'' '' Watchdog''. Early life Sonali Gudka was born in Edgware, London to immigrant Indian parents, who run a pharmacy. Shah trained as a dancer for over 10 years, studying Indian classical, Indian folk and Streetdance. She attended Longfield First and Middle School, and went on to Nower Hill High School in Harrow. She studied broadcast journalism at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University. Career Aiming for a career in medicine, Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Hudson
Julian Harold Hudson (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. Early life 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. 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 Hudson was educated at two independent schools: at Colchester High School and later I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Appleton
Alistair Appleton (born 12 February 1970) is an English broadcaster, psychotherapist and meditation teacher. Early life and education Born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to Peter and Sally (née Cooper) Appleton, the younger of two sons, Alistair was brought up in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, where as a boy he sang in the church choir at St Faith's. He earned ten O-levels and three A-levels at St John's College, Portsmouth. In 1988, he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature. Career On graduating with an upper second class degree, Appleton left the UK for Poland, where he took to writing poetry and helped to edit a children's anthology, as well as teaching at the University of Gdansk. He later taught English in eastern Germany and worked as a translator and journalist for ''Deutsche Welle'' television. Appleton broke into television with ''Deutsche Welle'', and eventually became the frontman of the channel's youth current-affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
