This week Nick Knowles's DIY SOS team pitch up in Avening in the Cotswolds to help project manager Ben, whose life was changed in a split second by a freak accident.
This week, Nick Knowles's DIY SOS team, the flamboyant designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and volunteers pitch up in Avening, in the idyllic Cotswolds, to help project manager Ben, whose life was changed in a split second by a freak accident on holiday.
In April 2016, whilst holidaying in Cyprus with his partner Ella and daughters Iris and Olivia, Ben slipped and fell head-first into the shallow end of a pool, breaking his neck in three places. After months of treatment in Cyprus and Germany, he was finally flown back to the UK, where the Salisbury Spinal Unit made amazing progress with him over the next 12 months.
Despite his life-changing injuries there is hope: if Ben could return home, he would be reunited with his family and could even work from home again as a project manager. But for this dream to become a reality, his home needs to be adapted with front access and a two-storey extension with through-floor lift, along with everything for the bespoke care that Ben will need.
Avening is a special place. The local community here have donated their time and money to carve out the steep stone hillside for one of the two extensions and lay a concrete ramp from the road to the front door, but funds have run out. Now the DIY SOS team are joining forces with this generous community to get the build finished.
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Clips
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A bridge too far?
Duration: 01:54
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Mark's skip
Duration: 01:09
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen arrives in style
Duration: 00:56
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Trail of Avening
Duration: 01:53
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Rudimental
Right Here (feat. Foxes)
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00:01
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
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00:02
Passenger
Let Her Go
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00:03
Passenger
Let Her Go
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00:03
Gabrielle Aplin
The Power Of Love
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00:06
Sigma
Coming 91热爆 (feat. Rita Ora, Sigma)
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00:10
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Theme and Chase
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00:11
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
Je t'aime...moi non plus
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00:11
David Dundas
Jeans On
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00:12
Foxes
Let Go For Tonight
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00:13
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
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00:14
Blur
Coffee & TV
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00:15
Lily Allen
LDN
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00:16
Gabrielle Aplin
Take Me Away
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00:17
Gabrielle Aplin
Start of Time
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00:17
Tom Odell
Sirens
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00:19
Calvin Harris
Acceptable In The 80s
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00:20
Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
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00:21
Husky Rescue
Nightless Night
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00:22
Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug
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00:23
Duffy
Mercy
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00:26
Noah and the Whale
Give It All Back
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00:27
The Stranglers
Peaches
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00:28
Blur
Supa Shoppa
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00:29
London Music Works
Old Ned
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00:29
Little Mix
Change Your Life
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00:30
The Beautiful South
Perfect 10
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00:30
Queen
One Vision
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00:30
Little Mix
Change Your Life
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00:31
Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:29
Queen
One Vision
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00:32
Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:36
Pixie Lott
Boys & Girls
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00:37
Jon Hopkins
Afterlife
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00:38
Tom Odell
Another Love
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00:39
Tom Odell
Another Love
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00:39
The Verve
Lucky Man
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00:41
Richard Ashcroft
Lucky Man
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00:41
Take That
Beautful World
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00:42
Take That
Beautful World
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00:45
Foxes
Glorious
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00:49
Take That
Wooden Boat
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00:51
Emeli Sand茅
Clown
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00:52
Take That
Greatest Day
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00:53
Take That
Greatest Day
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00:53
Coldplay
A Head Full Of Dreams
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00:55
Sigma
Coming 91热爆 (feat. Rita Ora, Sigma)
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00:56
Sigma & Rita Ora
Coming 91热爆 (Acoustic Version)
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Nick Knowles |
Executive Producer | Robi Dutta |
Series Producer | Hamish Summers |
Director | Charley Adams |
Production Manager | Wendhy Sierra |
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