Repair Shop fix for One’s 2 items
JAY BLADES and The Repair Shop team have filmed an incredible royal special – fixing two items for King Charles III.
The programme – in which family heirlooms are restored for their owners – was filmed last autumn when Charles was the Prince of Wales.
Charles and the team explored their “shared passion of preserving heritage craft skills”.
Unbelievable
As part of part of BBC 100 to mark the corporation’s centenary, the show’s foreman Jay and ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay, horologist Steve Fletcher and furniture restorerWill Kirk were invited to Dumfries House in Ayrshire to meet Charles and learn about the work of The Prince’s Foundation to train the next generation of craftspeople.
Jay, 52, said it was “unbelievable” that “someone from a council estate and someone from a royal estate… actually have the same interests.”
The prince gives Jay a tour, meeting some of the students on his foundation’s Building Craft programme – a training initiative that teaches traditional skills such as blacksmithing, stonemasonry and wood carving.
Meanwhile, collections manager, Satinder Kaur, gives Will, Kirsten and Steve a tour of the incredible collection of 18th-century furniture and decorative arts that are housed at Dumfries House.
As a result of the visit Jay, Kirsten, Steve and Will pledge to restore two historic pieces that the prince has selected.
BBC commissioning editor, Julie Shaw, said: “This is an incredibly special programme which has the magic that Repair Shop viewers have come to know and love.”
● The programme will air on October 26 at 8pm on BBC One.