Dick Strawbridge

Dick Strawbridge

Born: September 3, 1959
in Myanmar, Burma
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Francis "Dick" Strawbridge, MBE, is a British engineer, television presenter and environmentalist. He is often referred to as "Colonel Dick".

Movies for Dick Strawbridge...

Title: Escape to the Chateau: Make Do & Mend
Character: Himself
Released: July 30, 2020
Type: TV
Dick and Angel Strawbridge help families across the UK tackle their design and DIY dilemmas. With millions of families stuck indoors, the significance of being able to truly feel at home in the places where we live has never felt stronger.
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Title: Escape to the Chateau DIY
Character: Narrator, Himself
Released: April 9, 2018
Type: TV
Many Brits have moved to France to buy crumbling French chateaus to renovate into stunning homes. This series follows their progress and sees them try to use their homes as a business for events, etc. In 2021, the program was renamed as "Chateau DIY".
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Title: Cabins in the Wild with Dick Strawbridge
Character: Himself
Released: May 21, 2017
Type: TV
Dick Strawbridge and Will Hardie follow a competition to build a portable pop-up hotel in the wild comprised of eight stunning and unique themed cabins.
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Title: Trainspotting Live
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: July 11, 2016
Type: TV
Trainspotting Live will bring three nights of spotting, joy and excitement to BBC Four as Peter Snow, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry and engineer Dick Strawbridge along with a team of rail train enthusiasts revel in the tantalising intricacies, trade secrets and true pleasures of trainspotting... live!
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Britain's Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Title: Britain's Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: July 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Documentary following Dick Strawbridge and Alice Roberts as they explore the British landscapes that inspired children's author Arthur Ransome to write Swallows and Amazons.
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Title: Escape to the Chateau
Character: Himself
Released: June 5, 2016
Type: TV
Dick Strawbridge and his partner (subsequently wife) Angel Adoree swap their two-bed flat in Essex for an abandoned French chateau. Can they bring its 45 rooms and acres of land back to life?
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Title: Planet Mechanics
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: April 6, 2008
Type: TV
The series features Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield – two eco-engineers who use ingenuity, resourcefulness and humour to confront ecological challenges head on. Travelling around the U.K. and Europe to help people lower their energy consumption with the environmentally-friendly technology of the future.
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Title: Saving Planet Earth UK
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: July 4, 2007
Type: TV
A look at endangered species in the regions around the UK
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Title: The Big Idea
Released: October 15, 2006
Type: TV
The Big Idea is a gameshow that aired on Sky One in 2006. Hosted by Richard Bacon, the show aimed to find the country's best new business idea, with the public voting for the winner who would receive £100,000 to invest in their concept. Regional heats took place in Manchester and London, then in every episode three mentors introduced two of the products they backed from the regionals. Scrapheap Challenge's Dick Strawbridge would then apply some quirky product testing.
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Title: Celebrity Masterchef
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: TV
Chef and restaurateur John Torode and food writer and ingredients expert Gregg Wallace search for the country's top celebrity chef.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
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Title: It's Not Easy Being Green
Released: March 28, 2006
Type: TV
It's Not Easy Being Green is a television series on BBC Two starring Dick Strawbridge and focusing on how to live an environmentally friendly, low impact life. To date there have been three series. Series one followed former Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife Brigit, son James, and daughter Charlotte as they moved into Newhouse Farm, a 400-year-old listed building in Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire. The series documented the family's attempts to convert the building and garden into a comfortable yet entirely ecologically friendly place to live. The show was perhaps unique in that the family did not want great sacrifices in achieving their goal, and Dick Strawbridge said "I don't want to wear a hemp shirt and hairy knickers, I want a 21st-century lifestyle with a coffee machine". In the first series they received advice from permaculture expert Patrick Whitefield and green auditor Donnachadh McCarthy. They were also helped by friends Jim Milner and Anda Phillips as well as at points a small army of friends and relatives. A book entitled ‘It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living’ ISBN 0-563-49346-1 by Dick Strawbridge was released to accompany the series and is still available to buy.
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Title: Scrapheap Challenge
Released: April 12, 1998
Type: TV
Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants had 10 hours in which to build a working machine that could do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the United States, where it was known as Junkyard Wars. The US show was also produced by RDF Media, and was originally shown on The Learning Channel. Repeats have aired on another Discovery network, the Science Channel.