Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51

APPROPIATE

2022 / 58min.

Rating7

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Jay Blades

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