Television Career
Strawbridge is best known to the general public as an engineering and environmental expert on such television programmes as Scrapheap Challenge (on which his team, Brothers in Arms, were series champions and on which he took over from Robert Llewellyn as the main presenter in Series 11), three series of It's Not Easy Being Green for BBC Two, the six-part BBC Two series Crafty Tricks of War of which he was the main presenter, Planet Mechanics, and as a regular guest presenter on Coast. Following his switch of career to television, Strawbridge often refers to himself as a "telly tart".
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