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Richard Francis Strawbridge was interested from a very early age in “taking things apart”. As long as he could still get whatever unfortunate machine he was “fixing” to work, and wherever brute-force would suffice, he remained undaunted. Dick believed and still believes today, that understanding how and why things work, is as important in its own right as actually getting the thing to work.
In 1978 Dick joined the Army, and a few years later earned a degree in Electrical Engineering. Over the next 20 years, he married and had two children. He rose to Lieutenant Colonel serving all over the world and in 1993 was awarded an MBE.
Whilst he was still serving in the Army, Dick's family persuaded him to audition for Channel 4's Scrapheap, and, possibly because he had the biggest moustache the series producers had ever seen, Dick was successful.
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After leaving the Army in 2001, Dick presented Crafty Tricks of War for BBC2. In this series, Dick demonstrated his practical skills by reconstructing and testing some of the most unusual inventions of war. He also played a key part in the BBC presenting team covering the build up to, and celebration of, the 60th anniversary of D-Day, and, a year later, VE-Day and VJ-Day.
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As an enthusiastic inventor, Dick tested the inventions for the Sky series The Big Idea, and the UKTV series, Re-inventors, saw Dick presenting with his son James, a historian, investigating and reconstructing some great British inventions.
Two BBC series of It’s Not Easy Being Green saw Dick and his family moving to Cornwall and living a low impact life, making their own renewable energy and providing their own food, and then helping others with their green projects. He wrote a book to accompany the first series.
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When he is not presenting, Dick lives on an idyllic smallholding in Cornwall where he runs courses in all aspects of green living. He writes, hosts conferences, gives talks on British innovation, leadership and teamwork, lectures at schools and colleges, and makes keynote and after dinner speeches.
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