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Season 8, Episode 9
Ceramics restorer Kirsten Ramsay's skills are pushed to their limit as she works on a four-foot stone birdbath which has a huge crack, threatening to break it in two. Bookbinder Christopher Shaw restores a tatty logbook that belonged to a sailor who survived the Titanic disaster, while David Burville tries to repair a battered and out-of-tune harmonium. Finally, Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch gives some much-needed TLC to a well-travelled teddy bear from the 1950s
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Jay Blades
(Contributor)
Bill Paterson
(Narrator)
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Tanveer Bari
(Series producer)
Paula Fasht
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
Jay Blades
(Contributor)
Bill Paterson
(Narrator)
Born:
June 03, 1945
in
Glasgow
Best Known For:
A number of small-screen TV roles.
Early-life:
Bill Paterson was born on June 3, 1945, in Glasgow. He spent three years as a quantity surveyor before doing a teaching course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was about to accept an educational role when he was offered a place with the Citizen's Theatre. His big break came at the Edinburgh Festival in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a satire by Billy Connolly about striking shipbuilders.
Career:
Paterson's TV debut came in 1977's Bafta-winning Licking Hitler. A year later he appeared in The Vanishing Army and Smiley's People. He went on to feature in such films as The Killing Fields, A Private Function, Defence of the Realm, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Chaplin, Bright Young Things and Truly, Madly, Deeply. Other TV projects include The Singing Detective, Traffik, The Crow Road, Doctor Zhivago, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and Law & Order: UK. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Bertolt Brecht's Schwekyk in the Second World War in 1982 and has done extensive voiceover work on TV and radio.
Quote:
"I don't think acting has ever been my passion, but it's a very nice way of making a living."
Trivia:
Paterson turned down one of the leads in Alien.
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Tanveer Bari
(Series producer)
Paula Fasht
(Series producer)
