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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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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00:00Rudimental
Right Here (feat. Foxes)
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00:01Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
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00:02Passenger
Let Her Go
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00:03Passenger
Let Her Go
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00:03Gabrielle Aplin
The Power Of Love
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00:06Sigma
Coming Home (feat. Rita Ora, Sigma)
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00:10The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Theme and Chase
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00:11Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
Je t'aime...moi non plus
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00:11David Dundas
Jeans On
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00:12Foxes
Let Go For Tonight
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00:13Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
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00:14Blur
Coffee & TV
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00:15Lily Allen
LDN
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00:16Gabrielle Aplin
Take Me Away
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00:17Gabrielle Aplin
Start of Time
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00:17Tom Odell
Sirens
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00:19Calvin Harris
Acceptable In The 80s
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00:20Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
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00:21Husky Rescue
Nightless Night
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00:22Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug
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00:23Duffy
Mercy
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00:26Noah and the Whale
Give It All Back
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00:27The Stranglers
Peaches
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00:28Blur
Supa Shoppa
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00:29London Music Works
Old Ned
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00:29Little Mix
Change Your Life
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00:30The Beautiful South
Perfect 10
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00:30Queen
One Vision
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00:30Little Mix
Change Your Life
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00:31Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:29Queen
One Vision
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00:32Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:36Pixie Lott
Boys & Girls
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00:37Jon Hopkins
Afterlife
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00:38Tom Odell
Another Love
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00:39Tom Odell
Another Love
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00:39The Verve
Lucky Man
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00:41Richard Ashcroft
Lucky Man
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00:41Take That
Beautful World
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00:42Take That
Beautful World
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00:45Foxes
Glorious
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00:49Take That
Wooden Boat
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00:51Emeli Sandé
Clown
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00:52Take That
Greatest Day
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00:53Take That
Greatest Day
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00:53Coldplay
A Head Full Of Dreams
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00:55Sigma
Coming Home (feat. Rita Ora, Sigma)
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00:56Sigma & Rita Ora
Coming Home (Acoustic Version)
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Nick Knowles |
| Executive Producer | Robi Dutta |
| Series Producer | Hamish Summers |
| Director | Charley Adams |
| Production Manager | Wendhy Sierra |
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