Heart Foundation. On Tuesday 22 July 2014 Stroud joined four others (Chris Buckton, Barry Robson, Mark Harding and Ian Smith) in kayaking 77.3 miles across the English Channel on sit-on-top kayaks helping to raise money and awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support and Heroes on the Water UK. This took 19 hours 21 minutes during which he never left the kayak. It is believed that this is the first time this has been done before in this direction as paddling South is notoriously difficult. Other work Stroud was the on-screen expert on endurance performance for all 3 of the BBC TV series SAS: Are You Tough Enough? and then presented his own BBC series The Challenge. He also featured as the main participant in one of the BBC programmes Through the Keyhole hosted by Sir David Frost. Personal life Stroud married Thea de Moel in 1987; Thea died in September 2018. They have a son and a daughter. Honours Stroud was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours "for Human Endeavour and for charitable services". On 20 December 1994, he was awarded the Polar Medal "for outstanding achievement and service to British Polar exploration and research". In 1995, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Bibliography References Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1955 births 21st-century English medical doctors British explorers Explorers of Antarctica Living people Alumni of University College London Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Recipients of the Polar Medal