Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51
Jan 26 2022
•1h 58m
•Documentary
Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it’s finally time to learn to read. He has been told he has the reading age of an 11-year-old. Throughout his life he has found ways of avoiding the written word, and this film digs deep into how this has shaped him.
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Jay Blades
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