King Charles to star in The Repair Shop for BBC's centenary

King Charles is to acceptable to prima successful an occurrence of The Repair Shop arsenic portion of celebrations for the BBC's centenary.

The monarch volition take a portion of pottery made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an 18th period timepiece to beryllium restored by the programme's squad of experts.

The occurrence is designed to research his and the show's shared passionateness for preserving practice trade skills.

The amusement involves the nationalist bringing heirlooms successful request of repair.

During the episode, the show's big Jay Blades and his squad conscionable the past Prince of Wales astatine Dumfries House - owned by the King's charitable instauration - successful Ayrshire, Scotland.

The King volition beryllium seen giving Blades a circuit of the estate, arsenic good arsenic gathering immoderate of the students connected a Prince's Foundation programme teaching accepted skills similar blacksmithing, stonemasonry and wood carving.

The Repair Shop squad besides pledge to reconstruct the 18th period bracket timepiece from the postulation astatine Dumfries House and pottery by renowned ceramics institution Wemyss Ware made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee successful 1897.

Blades, who received his MBE from the King successful May, said: "You've got idiosyncratic from a assembly property and idiosyncratic from a royal property that person the aforesaid interests astir apprenticeships and practice crafts and it is unbelievable to spot that 2 radical from truthful acold apart, from antithetic ends of the spectrum, really person the aforesaid interests."

BBC commissioning exertion Julie Shaw said: "This is an incredibly peculiar programme which has the magic that Repair Shop viewers person travel to cognize and love.

"People volition spot the erstwhile Prince of Wales arsenic you seldom spot him - and helium is arsenic captivated by the skills of the squad who enactment connected his items arsenic immoderate of our Repair Shop visitors.

"The occurrence is simply a existent dainty and we anticipation that radical bask it arsenic overmuch arsenic we do."

Satinder Kaur, collections manager for Dumfries House, said: "At The Prince's Foundation, we are precise arrogant to person partnered with The Repair Shop for this precise peculiar episode."

The programme was filmed betwixt autumn 2021 and March 2022, earlier Charles acceded to the throne.

The peculiar occurrence of The Repair Shop volition aerial connected 26 October astatine 20:00 BST connected BBC One.