The Repair Shop: The Repair Shop: NHS Special


1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Monday, January 19 on Quest (17)

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About this Broadcast

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The Repair Shop: NHS Special
Season 12, Episode 8

The team celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service by restoring items chronicling the evolution of the publicly funded healthcare system. First into the barn are nurses Catherine and Katie who bring metal-man Dominic Chinea a Thomas the Tank Engine food trolley from the children's ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, having been a feature on the ward for over 30-years, it has started to show its age. Bookbinder Chris Shaw is given the task of repairing the daily diary kept by nurses and carers who took care of author and poet Michael Rosen while he was in a 40-day induced coma at the start of the pandemic. Dr Adrian and his daughter Lydia bring in a 1960s GP's bag that belonged to Adrian's late father Noel. Leather expert Suzie Fletcher teams up with silversmith Brenton West to repair the bag and the medical instruments inside. Will Kirk is tasked with revamping an old wooden desk that Bill saved from being thrown away when he was a student at nursing school in 1987. Having completed all of his studying at the desk, Bill wants it restored so his daughter Fiona, an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, can do the same


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Cast & Crew

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Jay Blades (Contributor)
Bill Paterson (Narrator)
William Kirk (Contributor)
Dominic Chinea (Contributor)
Christopher Shaw (Contributor)
Suzie Fletcher (Contributor)
Brenton West (Contributor)
Emma Walsh (Executive producer)
Paula Fasht (Executive producer)
Hannah Lamb (Executive producer)
Rachael Pagett (Series producer)
Kim Boursnell (Series producer)
Matt Baker (Series producer)

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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.
William Kirk (Contributor)
Dominic Chinea (Contributor)
Christopher Shaw (Contributor)
Suzie Fletcher (Contributor)
Brenton West (Contributor)
Emma Walsh (Executive producer)
Paula Fasht (Executive producer)
Hannah Lamb (Executive producer)
Rachael Pagett (Series producer)
Kim Boursnell (Series producer)
James Bainbridge (Director)
Matt Baker (Series producer)
Born: December 23, 1977 in Easington, County Durham
Best Known For: Blue Peter, The One Show and Countryfile.
Early-life: Matthew James Baker was born in Easington, County Durham, on December 23, 1977. He grew up on his family's sheep farm and developed a love of the countryside and animals. He was obsessed with gymnastics as a youngster and was told he had enough ability to compete at a high level but he was forced to give up the sport after being diagnosed with anaemia aged 14. He went on to study drama at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
Career: In the late 1990s, Baker toured around the north of England with a 1970s comedy disco-dancing revival show called Disco Inferno. He did freestyle routines with back flips and juggled wooden clubs. After finding out that Blue Peter were looking for a new presenter, he sent the BBC a showreel and managed to secure an interview. During his seven years as a Blue Peter presenter, he won two Baftas for Best Children's Presenter. He left the show in 2006 and went on to co-present Countryfile Summer Diaries, Open Country, Animal Squad, Countryfile, Secret Britain and One Man and His Dog. After a stint as a guest presenter on The One Show, he became a permanent host alongside Alex Jones in early 2011. He participated in Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, partnering professional dancer Aliona Vilani, and finished runner-up.
Quote: "If you dedicate yourself to something, you get a result. That's a formula I've stuck to all my life."
Trivia: He raised more than £1.9million for Children in Need in 2012 when he travelled around the country in a rickshaw. Wed childhood sweetheart Nicola Mooney in 2004. They have two children, Luke and Molly.