The Repair Shop

About this Broadcast

Season 9, Episode 14

Sarah Readings presents a very well-loved and very well-travelled companion in need of help from soft toy experts Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell. This little doll of a sailor was named Fairstar after the ship he was bought on, and the ship that carried Sarah and her parents to Australia in the 1960s as 'Ten Pound Poms' - people encouraged to emigrate to Australia by the government with cheap fares. A mid-century camera and a child's musical chair are also rejuvenated

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Cast & Crew

Jay Blades (Presenter)

Bill Paterson (Narrator)

Amanda Middleditch (Contributor)

Julie Tatchell (Contributor)

Rich Merritt (Director)

Rebecca McLaughlin (Series producer)

Tanveer Bari (Series producer)

Alex Raw (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.