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Season 12, Episode 5
The team welcome the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage into the Repair Shop who brings with him a harmonium, the subject of one of his poems that brings back memories of his late father. Cobbler Dean Westmoreland is given the task of repairing Valerie's pair of children's leather clogs that were bought to help her sister with mobility issues balance in the 1950s. Kirsten Ramsay is tasked with reviving Martin's broken sculpture depicting his mother as a young woman made by a Czechoslovakian art student in 1947. Finally, Kirsty visits jeweller Richard Talman, hoping he can fix her mum's silver charm bracelet gifted to her mother by her father in the early 1960s
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Jay Blades
(Contributor)
David Burville
(Contributor)
Dominic Chinea
(Contributor)
Dean Westmoreland
(Contributor)
Kirsten Ramsay
(Contributor)
William Kirk
(Contributor)
Richard Talman
(Contributor)
Bill Paterson
(Narrator)
Emma Walsh
(Executive producer)
Paula Fasht
(Executive producer)
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Claire Egerton-Jones
(Series producer)
Ben Borland
(Director)
Tanveer Bari
(Series producer)
Rachael Pagett
(Series producer)
Kim Boursnell
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
Jay Blades
(Contributor)
David Burville
(Contributor)
Dominic Chinea
(Contributor)
Dean Westmoreland
(Contributor)
Kirsten Ramsay
(Contributor)
William Kirk
(Contributor)
Richard Talman
(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.
Emma Walsh
(Executive producer)
Paula Fasht
(Executive producer)
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Claire Egerton-Jones
(Series producer)
Ben Borland
(Director)
Tanveer Bari
(Series producer)
Rachael Pagett
(Series producer)
Kim Boursnell
(Series producer)
