DICK STRAWBRIDGE

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

Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes they were able to eat after I left home.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

I could never work out how to shave my top lip without cutting myself.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.

For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.

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.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.

Cooking is about ingredients.

I love a challenge and a bit of fun.

When you work with people, you buy into it, you work together and you pull together. It doesn't matter what your challenge is: there's a sense of achievement at the end of it.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.

My body was built through years of good food - and beer.

For a nation that spends a lot of time talking about the weather, we don't seem to realise just how much sunshine we actually get. Maybe that's because we tend to concentrate on the negative aspects.

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.

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.

Nature is so phenomenal.

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

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.

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.