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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 24

Episode 24

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BBC One - The Repair Shop, Series 4, Episode 24

Three treasured family heirlooms are brought back to life.

The team restore a Victorian kaleidoscope, a carved wooden bench that plays a tune, and a pair of military mementoes belonging to an extraordinary soldier.

Music box maestro Stephen Kember is on hand to welcome an unusual item into the barn:  a wooden bench from Switzerland, with two carved bears proudly standing sentinel on either side of a seat that plays a tune when sat upon. This much-loved bench has been in owner Gill Hawkins’s family since 1950, when her parents brought it back from a holiday in the Alps, and it has kept several generations of her family entertained ever since. But the bench no longer plays a tune, and the bears themselves are faded, battered and looking their age. While Stephen tackles the musical mechanism, furniture restorer Will Kirk takes on the challenge of reviving the woodwork – starting with a bit of bear dentistry.

Master saddlemaker Suzie Fletcher is called upon to repair of a pair of military mementoes owned by a remarkable soldier who served in both world wars. Chris Adams has brought the items to the Repair Shop: a helmet that saw action in the First World War and a set of leather spurs dating from the Second World War. The helmet and spurs belonged to Chris’s grandfather, who served his country with distinction, and who recorded his experiences in an extraordinary diary. Jay and Suzie are left almost lost for words as Chris reads out the entry that records how the helmet saved his grandfather’s life at Gallipoli. With the weight of history heavy on her shoulder, Suzie feels a great responsibility to breathe new life back into these precious items.

And mechanical maestro Steve Fletcher is tasked with the restoration of an old Victorian Kaleidoscope, belonging to 91-year-old Francis Rutter.  The precious toy kept a nine-year-old Francis occupied and amused through a nasty childhood illness, and it is now destined to be passed down the generations to Francis’s six-month-old great-grandson Zach – but only if Steve can restore it to its former splendour.

The Repair Shop: Series 4

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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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