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The Repair Shop Series 1
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In the repair shop today, three cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life - a Gothic timepiece, a 50-year-old wooden flying fish and an 80-year-old accordion.

In the repair shop today, three cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades and horologist Steve Fletcher tackle a timepiece with huge sentimental value for its owner Jane Fanner. Her late father, who was completely blind, made the clock himself, but it hasn't ticked or chimed since his death.

Antique furniture restorer Will Kirk tests his carpentry skills on a 50-year-old wooden flying fish that may have been carved by a descendent of one the mutineers from HMS Bounty.

And accordion expert Roger Thomas wrestles with an 80-year-old instrument that was played in the bomb shelters of London during the Blitz.

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29 minutes

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Mon 2 Apr 2018 18:30
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:04

    Bastille

    These Streets (Glastonbury 2016)

  • 00:17

    Rob Dougan

    Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)

  • 00:17

    Take That

    Greatest Day

  • 00:19

    Demi Lovato

    Skyscraper

Credits

Expert Jay Blades
Expert Will Kirk
Expert Kirsten Ramsay
Expert Roger Thomas
Narrator Bill Paterson
Expert Steve Fletcher
Executive Producer Sam Wilson
Executive Producer Rob Butterfield
Series Producer Emma Walsh
Production Company Ricochet Limited

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