MODEL CITIZEN

Fresh from raising £11million for Children in Need, BBC broadcaster Sara Cox on her next challenge... helping to preserve people's cherished memories

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The Marvellous Miniatures Workshop is an eight-part series featuring professional model makers who create detailed miniature replicas of cherished memories and significant cultural moments. Each episode focuses on a different project and blends nostalgia, storytelling and craftsmanship as the team researches, designs and builds intricate scenes for individuals.

For Sara, it’s a bit of a telly dream come true.

“It’s stepping into a world where cherished places from the past are brought back to life in miniature. There’s something so magical about things in miniature. They're just so cute,” she says. “But it taps into childhood a lot, too. I had a doll’s house when I was little, just a little cheap thing, as well as a tree house that I used to move all the figures around in. There’s something so beautiful and nostalgic about it.

“I also think that humans have always been fascinated by changing the size of something, whether it’s the world’s biggest Yorkshire pudding that’s the size of a swimming pool or a little tiny rocking chair that’s created in one of the episodes.”

Sara was blown away by the skills of the miniaturist artists themselves. In addition to the miniscule chair, highlights of the series see the experts getting to grips with crafting the world’s smallest Tunnock’s tea cakes and also a set of teeny, tiny dominoes.

“It’s a bit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids [the 1989 Disney film starring Rick Moranis] and taps into childhood fantasies of being shrunk and being able to adventure through the world into tiny little places.