Judge confirmed - Dick Strawbridge

Dick Strawbridge from BBC2's It's not Easy being Green and presenter of Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge is confirmed as the judge of Peterborough's Scrapheap Challenge.

Dick will be in the city judging the competition on 19th November at Peterborough Museum, at around 4pm.

Later that evening he will be speaking at Peterborough Environment City Trust's event where Peterborough will formally launch its ambition to become the UK's Environment Capital.

Facts about Dick Strawbridge:
Richard Francis Strawbridge was born in Burma in 1959. The third of seven children, he was raised and educated in County Antrim, N Ireland.

In 1978 Dick joined the Army, and a few years later did a degree in Electrical Engineering.
After a tour in Northern Ireland, Dick was awarded the MBE in 1993.

Whilst he was still serving in the Army, Dick's family persuaded him to audition for C4's 'Scrapheap'. Dick was successful, and was catapulted into the world of television as the 'Yellow Team Leader' for six episodes in the first ever series of 'Scrapheap'!

After leaving the Army in 2001 Dick worked in industry for three years. He took a sabbatical to film the popular series 'Crafty Tricks of War', which he presented for BBC2. In this series, Dick celebrated British ingenuity and demonstrated his practical skills by reconstructing and testing some of the most unusual inventions of war.

Two BBC series of ‘Its 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.

Dick lives on an idyllic smallholding in Cornwall where he runs courses in all aspects of green living.