Quotes from Dick Strawbridge

I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called 'Crafty Tricks Of War' for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.

When I started presenting 'Scrapheap Challenge,' I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn't agree with something, I wasn't prepared to accept it.

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.