Two famous faces will be making an appearance on a special live session of The Repair Shop at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival to mark five years of the popular programme. The BBC One show sees members of the public bring their family heirlooms in need of restoring to a team of experts led by furniture restorer and host Jay Blades.
But in this special edition, 87-year-old stage and screen actress Dame Judi Dench will be taking a treasured item into The Repair Shop to be mended and Strictly Come Dancing judge, choreographer and theatre director 57-year-old Craig Revel Horwood also has a cherished item in need of repair.
Dame Judi will be enlisting the help of horologist Steve Fletcher when she brings in a pocket watch that belonged to her late husband, actor Michael Williams. She gifted it to him one year after they married in in 1972 and as the watch is no longer working, the veteran actress would like to hear it tick again, as a reminder of the times they shared before his death in January 2001, aged 65.
