The Repair Shop

About this Broadcast

Season 7, Episode 22

Ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay meets Emma who brings in a series of handmade pottery vegetable patch signs made by her late father that have been subject to many years of harsh weather. Sally brings in a wooden horse and cart toy for Will Kirk that belonged to her mother and has been in her family for nearly 100-years. Silversmith and football fan Brenton West is excited to work on Anthony's father's trophy that he won playing as part of Manchester United in the 1953 FA Youth Cup final

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Cast & Crew

Jay Blades (Presenter)

Bill Paterson (Narrator)

Dominic Chinea (Contributor)

Suzie Fletcher (Contributor)

William Kirk (Contributor)

Kirsten Ramsay (Contributor)

Brenton West (Contributor)

Hannah Lamb (Executive producer)

Tanveer Bari (Series producer)

Paula Fasht (Series 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.