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It's on BBC4, 4th to 6th April, 9pm.
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BBC Four today announces that James May will fix things in a workshop, over three programmes, for James May: The Reassembler.
When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring to life, and - most of the time - do exactly what we want them to. But how on earth do these objects work?
To find out, James May (fuelled by endless cups of tea) heads into his workshop with thousands of little pieces to assemble some of our most beloved and recognisable objects from scratch to see what it actually takes to get them to work.
James May says: ?Any idiot can take things to bits, putting them back together again is what counts. I recently bought a new house, with a lawn. I even have a lawn mower. Unfortunately, it?s in bits. You can probably see where this is going.?
Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor, BBC Four, says: ?At BBC Four we love to celebrate passion and expertise, and we also like to take the time to do things properly. What could be better than giving James May the time to really get to grips with three fabulous everyday engineering icons, and to celebrate every rivet and ratchet on the way.?
Over three episodes stripped over three nights, James will reassemble a whole host of objects which have been carefully taken apart to all their hundreds of individual component parts. From a petrol-powered lawn mower to an electric guitar and an old-style rotary dial telephone, each episode will focus on one object which he will attempt to put back together.
In his workshop he will be faced with the object laid out in all its individual parts, where he will have to work out how to piece it back together, until eventually it is in its full form. In James? meticulous, fastidious, but ultimately very slow way, he will vigilantly screw every screw and tighten every bolt to rebuild the object, in the hope that it will start first time!
He will revel in the challenge, enjoying every second of it as he shares his memories of the object and his love for it and delivers, in his unique way, a potted history on the thing he is rebuilding and the component parts. If you really want to understand what something is then you have to understand how it works and what makes it work - James is the man to find out, one bolt at a time.
A 3x30? series made by Plum Pictures for BBC Four. The executive producer for Plum Pictures is Will Daws. James May: The Reassembler was commissioned by Tom McDonald, BBC Head of Commissioning, Natural History and Specialist Factual Formats and Lucinda Axelsson, BBC Commissioning Executive, Specialist Factual Formats.
[video=youtube;qSW-Pdm8CEM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSW-Pdm8CEM[/video]
BBC Four today announces that James May will fix things in a workshop, over three programmes, for James May: The Reassembler.
When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring to life, and - most of the time - do exactly what we want them to. But how on earth do these objects work?
To find out, James May (fuelled by endless cups of tea) heads into his workshop with thousands of little pieces to assemble some of our most beloved and recognisable objects from scratch to see what it actually takes to get them to work.
James May says: ?Any idiot can take things to bits, putting them back together again is what counts. I recently bought a new house, with a lawn. I even have a lawn mower. Unfortunately, it?s in bits. You can probably see where this is going.?
Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor, BBC Four, says: ?At BBC Four we love to celebrate passion and expertise, and we also like to take the time to do things properly. What could be better than giving James May the time to really get to grips with three fabulous everyday engineering icons, and to celebrate every rivet and ratchet on the way.?
Over three episodes stripped over three nights, James will reassemble a whole host of objects which have been carefully taken apart to all their hundreds of individual component parts. From a petrol-powered lawn mower to an electric guitar and an old-style rotary dial telephone, each episode will focus on one object which he will attempt to put back together.
In his workshop he will be faced with the object laid out in all its individual parts, where he will have to work out how to piece it back together, until eventually it is in its full form. In James? meticulous, fastidious, but ultimately very slow way, he will vigilantly screw every screw and tighten every bolt to rebuild the object, in the hope that it will start first time!
He will revel in the challenge, enjoying every second of it as he shares his memories of the object and his love for it and delivers, in his unique way, a potted history on the thing he is rebuilding and the component parts. If you really want to understand what something is then you have to understand how it works and what makes it work - James is the man to find out, one bolt at a time.
A 3x30? series made by Plum Pictures for BBC Four. The executive producer for Plum Pictures is Will Daws. James May: The Reassembler was commissioned by Tom McDonald, BBC Head of Commissioning, Natural History and Specialist Factual Formats and Lucinda Axelsson, BBC Commissioning Executive, Specialist Factual Formats.
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