Movie: Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51

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    Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51

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    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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    2022-01-26

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