Either way, it seems the previous series required a spot of restoration itself to remove the presence of the show’s fallen star: Jay Blades.
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Whether or not star presenters are generally over-valued (Inside the Factory sails on without Gregg Wallace, as does This Morning without Phillip Schofield) is an argument for another day – perhaps when Gary Lineker gets his final whopping payday for fronting Match of the Day. The fact is, that The Repair Shop has a winning formula and is pretty much presenter-proof.
Keith from Guildford brings in a battered Braille watch belonging to his father Desmond, a welder for Rolls-Royce until he lost his eyesight from a hereditary condition. Keith wants his eight-year-old granddaughter, who is deaf and blind through the same condition (but happily seems to have inherited her great-grandfather’s can-do spirit, too), to own the restored watch.
Presenter Will Kirk and Matthew Long, Ralph McTell, Suzie Fletcher, and Kenny the Kangaroo in ‘The Repair Shop’ (Photo: BBC / Ricochet Ltd)
The episode’s most showbizzy payoff comes when folk singer Ralph McTell (of “Streets of London” fame) arrives with an enormous stuffed leather kangaroo – a prop from when McTell wrote a song called “Kenny the Kangaroo” for the 80s children’s programme Alphabet Zoo. He is accompanied by his friend Matthew, who wants to use a fully-restored Kenny in his child music therapy work. In return for leather expert Suzie Fletcher making Kenny “school friendly” (ie removing various sharp objects), McTell gives a rendition of his 80s ditty. I would have preferred “Streets of London”, but there you go.
And if watching master craftspeople at work is soothing, so is listening to Bill Paterson’s narration – although “listening” might be too active a description for a vocal delivery that seem as organic to the materials being used in the workshop. Little wonder that The Repair Shop is so beloved and seems to be rarely off our screens.
‘The Repair Shop’ continues next Wednesday at 8pm on BBC One
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