In Torquay, the team help multiple sclerosis sufferer Stuart, his daughter Lauren and his mother, Lin, who cares for Stuart despite being completely blind.
In Torquay, the DIY SOS team and local kind volunteers step up to help single dad Stuart, who has suffered with progressive multiple sclerosis since his 15-year-old daughter Lauren was born. Stuart - who is 6’ 7” tall – lives and sleeps in a chair in the living room. His primary carer is his mum, Grandma Lin, who is completely blind – and has been since her 20s. Amazingly, Lin has been walking across town from her rented flat to Stuart’s house, seven days a week, to cover all his personal care – without even a guide dog! Lin is beyond unique: blind, independent, charming and inspiring - an incredible carer to Stuart, and a much-needed mum to Lauren.
The build consists of bespoke care facilities for Stuart: a bedroom, physio space, a wet room, a living space, and the ability to access the entire ground floor and garden. Grandma Lin will need a specially adapted extra bedroom for blind-assisted living, and the dilapidated kitchen and bathroom need a complete renovation and redesign for the family’s needs – to bring them together at mealtimes where they can bond over Lauren’s dream of cooking together. Until now the family have physically and emotionally living apart, and that’s where DIY SOS and our volunteers can come to the rescue.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00Foxes
Glorious
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00:01Rita Ora
I Will Never Let You Down
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00:02Passenger
Let Her Go
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00:02James Arthur
Remember Who I Was
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00:03Gabrielle Aplin
The Power Of Love
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00:04SOAK
Blud
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00:04SOAK
24 Windowed House
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00:06Sigma
Coming Home (Acoustic) (feat. Rita Ora)
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00:08George Ezra
Paradise
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00:09Thin Lizzy
The Boys Are Back In Town
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00:11Dennis Wilson
Fawlty Towers Theme
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00:11Blur
Coffee & TV
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00:12Blur
Supa Shoppa
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00:13Pulp
Help The Aged
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00:16Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug
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00:18Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:22Jorja Smith
Let Me Down (feat. Stormzy)
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00:23Paloma Faith
Stone Cold Sober
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00:24Paloma Faith
Upside Down
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00:24Gabrielle Aplin
Take Me Away
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00:24Gabrielle Aplin
Start of Time
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00:26Ocean Colour Scene
The Riverboat Song
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00:29Jon Hopkins
Afterlife
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00:31Lily Allen
LDN
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00:31Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
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00:33Jean‐Michel Jarre
Oxygène Part III
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00:40The Verve
Lucky Man
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00:42Tom Odell
Sirens
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00:34Rudimental
Right Here (feat. Foxes)
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00:34Gabrielle Aplin
The Power Of Love
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00:43Take That
Greatest Day
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00:44James Arthur
Phoenix
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00:44Tom Odell
Another Love
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00:45Ed Sheeran
Perfect
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00:45Sigma
Coming Home (feat. Rita Ora, Sigma)
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00:48Picture This
You & I
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00:51Florence + the Machine
How Big, How Blue
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00:52Birdy
Keeping Your Head Up
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Nick Knowles |
| Executive Producer | Paolo Proto |
| Series Producer | Hamish Summers |
