Lieutenant Colonel Richard Francis Strawbridge, MBE is a British engineer, television presenter, environmentalist and former army officer. He has appeared as an engineering and environmental expert on various television programmes, including Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Francis Strawbridge, MBE is a British engineer, television presenter, environmentalist and former army officer. He has appeared as an engineering and environmental expert on various television programmes, including Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for his distinguished service in Northern Ireland, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in June 1999, and left the army in November 2001. In 2013, Strawbridge and his son James presented ITV Food series Saturday Farm. He also starred in The Big Idea, which tested out amateur inventions, and he featured in the short series The Re-Inventors, a five-long hour series of five-minute episodes commissioned by the UK digital channel History.
He is married to Angel Adoree, with whom he has a son, James, and a daughter, Victoria. He lives in Tywardreath near St Austell, Cornwall with his partner, Angel Adorese. He and his family live as green a life as possible, using renewable energy and environmentally friendly resources. He often refers to himself as a ‘telly tart’, and has been described as ‘a bit of a troublemaker’. Strawbridge has also had a major role in the BBC’s 60-mile-mile hike through the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, with Dave Littlefield and Johnny Little.
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