James May's Toy Stories.
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Starting tomorrow night James May's Toy Stories Tuesday 27 October
Radio Times said:
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC2
1/4 - Airfix
James May cites Airfix as one of the biggest influences in his life (after his parents and, I'm tickled to learn, a well-developed young girl called Jane). But when he visits some 13-year-olds at a school in Telford he realises that today's youngsters are less enamoured with the hobby and probably only tolerate making models because it's that Top Gear bloke asking them to do it. And also because he sometimes lets them blow up the models. May's aim - and, in fact, his childhood dream, as he tells us on several occasions - is to build a life-size version of a Spitfire, which was the first kit a young May made. To that end, he enlists his teenage apprentices, and to make it even more authentic, he gets his dad to help. The first programme in this entertaining series (he continues with Plasticine and Meccano) is a bit like Airfix kits themselves: there's some history, some fiddly bits, a sense of nostalgia and a lot of fun. But you don't end up with paint on the carpet and your fingers glued together.
Should be a good series. Lego house & Scalextric to follow.BBC2
1/4 - Airfix
James May cites Airfix as one of the biggest influences in his life (after his parents and, I'm tickled to learn, a well-developed young girl called Jane). But when he visits some 13-year-olds at a school in Telford he realises that today's youngsters are less enamoured with the hobby and probably only tolerate making models because it's that Top Gear bloke asking them to do it. And also because he sometimes lets them blow up the models. May's aim - and, in fact, his childhood dream, as he tells us on several occasions - is to build a life-size version of a Spitfire, which was the first kit a young May made. To that end, he enlists his teenage apprentices, and to make it even more authentic, he gets his dad to help. The first programme in this entertaining series (he continues with Plasticine and Meccano) is a bit like Airfix kits themselves: there's some history, some fiddly bits, a sense of nostalgia and a lot of fun. But you don't end up with paint on the carpet and your fingers glued together.
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