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The Repair Shop

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Shining a light on the wonderful treasures to be found in homes across the country.

Enter a workshop filled with expert craftspeople, bringing loved pieces of family history and the memories they hold back to life. A heartwarming antidote to throwaway culture.

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The Repair Shop: Series 4: Episode 27

Episode 27

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BBC One - The Repair Shop, Series 4, Episode 27

Three treasured family heirlooms are brought back to life.

The team restore a set of bagpipes that saw action in the First World War, a silver Welsh crown of great cultural significance, and a quirky tortoise-shaped bell.

First through the barn doors today is a broken and battered set of bagpipes, currently owned by Des Allan but originally belonging to Des’s grandfather, who served as a piper and a soldier in the Royal Scots. Des knows his grandfather was involved on the frontline during the early years of the First World War, but it has never been clear whether the pipes went with him into the trenches. Bagpipe restorer Blue MacMurchie is on hand, along with his son John, to breathe new life back into the precious pipes, and Blue has some important news for Des about the history of the bagpipes that sheds a whole new light on their patriotic past.

Silversmith Brenton West is on hand to welcome another precious item into the barn: a silver Eisteddfod crown, brought into the Repair Shop by Ross Hendry. The crown was awarded to Ross’s grandmother when she was just 15, for wowing the judges at Wales’s most important cultural festival with her poetry recitation skills. The crown has been dearly treasured ever since, but in its current state it bears little resemblance to its former splendid self – tarnished and bent out of shape, it is quite unwearable. Brenton sets to work to get it looking royally splendid again, with a little help from Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch.

And clockwork genius Steve Fletcher takes on the repair of a quirky tortoise-shaped bell that sat for years on the counter of a family-run butcher's shop. Sadly, the bell hasn’t rung in decades, and it falls to Steve to work out why. He’s as surprised as anyone when his first job turns out to be fashioning the tortoise a brand new tail – a first even for a man of Steve’s experience!

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Damaged treasures are brought back to life by some of the country's best craftspeople.

The Repair Shop is a magical place, where much-loved but broken treasures are brought back to life by a dream team of some of the country's most skilled craftspeople.

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