The Repair Shop: Favourite Fixes
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Friday, January 2 on BBC One London (1)
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Favourite Fixes
Season 1, Episode 5
Bill Paterson reminisces about four favourite sporting fixes. The items are a rugby league cap given to a Yorkshireman who played for his country, a wooden skateboard bought in 1967, a horse saddle from the 1920s and a speedway bib that used to belong to a racer from the Bristol Bulldogs in 1947
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Cast & Crew
Bill Paterson
(Narrator)
Dominic Chinea
(Contributor)
Suzie Fletcher
(Contributor)
Will Kirk
(Contributor)
Lucia Scalisi
(Contributor)
Jayesh Vaghela
(Contributor)
Paula Fasht
(Series editor)
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Alex Raw
(Executive producer)
Emma Walsh
(Executive producer)
Rebecca McLaughlin
(Series producer)
Ben Borland
(Director)
Richard Merritt
(Director)
Glenn Swift
(Executive producer)
Claire Egerton-Jones
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
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.
Dominic Chinea
(Contributor)
Suzie Fletcher
(Contributor)
Will Kirk
(Contributor)
Lucia Scalisi
(Contributor)
Jayesh Vaghela
(Contributor)
Paula Fasht
(Series editor)
Hannah Lamb
(Executive producer)
Alex Raw
(Executive producer)
Emma Walsh
(Executive producer)
Rebecca McLaughlin
(Series producer)
Ben Borland
(Director)
Richard Merritt
(Director)
Glenn Swift
(Executive producer)
Claire Egerton-Jones
(Series producer)
