The Repair Shop

About this Broadcast

Season 11, Episode 7

Jay Blades and his team of experts welcome Yatish from Leicester who is hoping they can repair his father's 80-year-old camera that came with his family when they fled from Uganda in the 1970s. Daughter of children's author Dick King-Smith Juliet comes into the workshop hoping they can repair her father's childhood stuffed rabbit Wilfred. After nearly a century of life, most of it spent in his study watching Dick write over 100 childrens books, Wilfred is looking worse for wear. Teddy bear ladies Julie and Amanda work together to put the hop back in his step. Leather specialist Suzie Fletcher is tasked with repairing Arwel's leather-bound draughts board which brought his family hours of entertainment back in the 1950s. Now Arwel would love to share the same experience with his grandchildren

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Cast & Crew

Jay Blades (Contributor)

Bill Paterson (Narrator)

Julie Tatchell (Contributor)

Amanda Middleditch (Contributor)

Brenton West (Contributor)

Suzie Fletcher (Contributor)

David Burville (Contributor)

Hannah Lamb (Executive producer)

Emma Walsh (Executive producer)

Tanveer Bari (Series producer)

Ben Borland (Director)

Paula Fasht (Executive producer)

Claire Egerton-Jones (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.