The Repair Shop

About this Broadcast

Season 8, Episode 13

Kirsten Ramsay and Will Kirk join forces to restore a miniature replica house that was once part of a model village in the owner's home town of Cleethorpes. Electronics guru Mark Stuckey works on a Bakelite radio that has been mute for more than 50 years, Dominic Chinea has his work cut out with a hefty cast-iron fairground game and paper conservator Louise Drover is delighted to be given a beautiful Indian painting, which represents an important piece of the owner's family's heritage

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Cast & Crew

Jay Blades (Presenter)

Bill Paterson (Narrator)

Rich Merritt (Director)

Paula Fasht (Series producer)

Hannah Lamb (Executive producer)

Emma Walsh (Executive producer)

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Did You Know..

Jay Blades (Presenter)

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.