From Scrap to Screen: Weebert’s World on the Jeremy Vine Show
Jeremy Vine… a Founding Fan!
I’m still slightly stunned as I write this.
On Tuesday evening we were standing in our best clothes at the Soldiering On Awards get together of finalists, feeling more than a little nervous but proud to be finalists for Weebert’s World, when Jeremy Vine asked to interview us. On his phone. Right there in the middle of it all.
We chatted about how we started Weebert’s World, how Andy builds scrap-built robots in the garden, and how this little world we’ve created is full of heart and hope. He was kind, curious, and genuine, and we honestly thought that would be the end of it.
Until the next day, when we saw it.
There we were, on the Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5.
Us talking about Weebert, our scrap-built robot made from a vintage spy camera and copper wire, was on national TV.
And just like that, everything shifted.
You Can’t Measure Magic, But You Can Feel It
We didn’t win an award that night. But what we gained? You can’t measure that with numbers. You measure it with goosebumps. With messages from strangers who say, “I saw you on telly, your story stayed with me.” With people who don’t know us but get us.
There’s something quietly powerful about a small idea getting big attention.
And when the idea is built out of other people’s throwaways, well, that feels even more special.
We didn’t hire a PR agency. We didn’t plan a media moment. We just turn up as ourselves, doing what we always do: telling stories and making things from scrap.
Weebert’s World Isn’t Just About Robots, It’s About Permission
That TV clip didn’t go viral in a flashy way. It resonated in a real way.
Because beneath the quirky robots and the scraps and the soldering is something much simpler, we’re giving children permission.
Permission to play. To imagine. To explore. To make things from what’s around them.
In a world full of polished screens and perfect outcomes, we’re waving a little copper flag that says: “It’s okay to be scrappy and curious.”
And people responded.
Not just families, but people in the creative industries, the forces community, small business owners, even investors. And then something else happened, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, known to many as The Black Farmer, expressed interest in stocking Andy’s robot sculptures in his shop.
Let me say that again:
A veteran-turned-creative in his 60s, who builds robots from helicopter parts, might now have his work in a nationally recognised British farm shop!
That’s what I call magic.
What Scrap Teaches You About Value
One of the most unexpected things we’ve learned through Weebert’s World is how much perceived value matters.
You can take something that looks like nothing, a lens, a broken part, a few tangled wires, and put it together with love, purpose and story… and people see treasure.
That’s how we feel about the Berts. And maybe, just maybe, that’s how people are starting to feel about us, too.
What’s often overlooked is this: value doesn’t come from how perfect something is. It comes from how emotionally connected someone feels to it. Scrap becomes sculpture. Story becomes brand. Hope becomes action.
If You’re New Here, Welcome
If you saw us on the Jeremy Vine Show, thank you for taking the time to find us. If you’ve been following us since the very first Bert sat on the workbench, thank you for believing in us when we were still working it all out.
You can now watch the full Jeremy Vine interview here on our YouTube channel:
🎥 Watch the video
And if you want to meet the Berts, hear our stories, or follow our stop-motion animation dream, everything is here on the website.
One Last Thing…
If you’re quietly working on something you believe in — something handmade, homemade, stitched together with courage and maybe a bit of string — keep going.
You never know who might walk over with a phone and change everything.
With love and a few robot bolts,
Lotty x
