Today in the repair shop, some of the country's leading crafts people bring treasured possessions back to life.

Furniture restorers Jay Blades and Will Kirk work together on a 100-year-old Nordic rocking chair that owner Nina Tucknott's grandparents were given on their wedding day.

And ceramics restorers Guillaume Pons and Kirsten Ramsay take on two very different pieces - an engraved mother of pearl seashell from Brazil and an unusual ceramic bulldog named Sweetpea, whose face has been shattered. Show less