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2 Episodes 2025 - 2025
Episode 1
44 mins
The team restores a Canoe exists of 3 parts, a unique 18 century Window signed by Poet Robert Burns and visits a Curling Factory.
Episode 2
44 mins
Dom and plaster expert Rich try to preserve some World War II Polish art before it is lost forever. Meanwhile, David Burville repairs a clockwork ship, and Will gets to grips with shinty.
Episode 3
44 mins
The team repairs commemorate the victims of the Lockerbie Bombing, train expert Michael tackles a Clockwork Train, and Kirsten gets hands-on with medieval slippery Pottery.
Episode 4
44 mins
Will and Dom learn how a devastating fire put a 5,000-year-old craft in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Chris Shaw repairs a Gaelic pipe music book, and Dom has the chance to make his own sporran.
Episode 5
44 mins
Dom and Lucia help an iconic Glasgow Cathedral that has lost its shine, save an endangered Chinese Unicorn Head, and discover how Street Art is changing one city before our very eyes.
Episode 6
The team face their quirkiest fix yet - a giant fibreglass cow lantern. Also, luthier Julyan brings a banjolele back to life, and Dom gets a crash course in brilliant cutting.
Episode 7
44 mins
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. York Minster is one of our most magnificent cathedrals, boasting the world's largest expanse of medieval stained glass. But the stonework of this glorious gothic monument is crumbling away on a daily basis. Will and Dom join the new generation of stonemasons, including apprentice stonemason Freya de Lisle and head of works Alex McCallion, being trained to save it, harnessing modern technology while still using centuries-old skills. Will's Yorkshire odyssey continues in Cawthorne, where Elwin Athey presents him with a huge drum that has been owned by the local marching band since the 1850s. The big bass drum is played by Elwin. But the damaged paintwork, ill-fitting skins and loose cords aren't befitting such a magnificent instrument, so percussion expert Pete Woods takes on the mammoth task of getting it back into a playable condition. Dom heads further south through God's Own Country to visit occasional Repair Shop expert Jonathan Reid in his Sheffield workshop. Here the master putter, or scissor-maker, is keeping the endangered craft of making scissors by hand alive, and he's eager to share some secrets of the trade with his fellow craftsman.
Episode 8
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. The boys answer a distress call from Swindon, where a plane-shaped bench paying tribute to the town's aviation history is no longer fit to fly. A local woodworking group in a men's shed, have taken on the task of fixing it, but they're in need of some assistance from master carpenter Will. Meanwhile, Dom meets Tulsi, who has a Hindu holy scripture passed down from her grandmother that's now so fragile it can't be opened without further damage. It will take every trick in the book if paper conservator Angie is to get this beloved tome back to a state where the family can use it once again. One of the great joys of leaving the barn is the chance for our experts to meet some of the passionate makers around the country keeping heritage crafts alive. And few are as passionate as Chris, who is buzzing to teach Will all about the traditional way of making skeps, surprisingly strong, traditional bee hives made out of willow.
Episode 9
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. Dom and Mark Stuckey are up in the Black Country, on the lookout for a big red bus. After being used as a mobile shelter by a homelessness charity for a few years, a leaking roof and outdated electrics have combined to keep it off the road. It's a huge fix to take on, in every sense, and the team will need all the help vintage vehicle restorer Mark Owen can provide if they're to get it back into service. In Coventry, Pauline has a curious astrological artefact in need of some repair. It's a celestial projector, once owned by her husband, avid stargazer Alan. Now the light has stopped working, and many of the constellations have worn away, so a little Mark Stuckey magic will be required if it's to light up Pauline's life once again. The siren call of another heritage craft to explore lures Will to a Victorian factory in Ironbridge Gorge. There, encaustic tile expert Chris Cox uses his own secret clay recipe to create hard-wearing works of decorative art that have seen him tasked with restoration work in some of the world's greatest historic buildings, including the Palace of Westminster. What can he teach his new apprentice Will, who is more used to carving wood than getting his hands dirty with pottery?
Episode 10
44 mins
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. Will and Kirsten are in Musselburgh, on Scotland's east coast. It's a town boasting a proud heritage that is celebrated each year with a procession led by their elected Honest Lad and Honest Lass. However, for the past few years, the antique carriage these local luminaries ride in has been off the road. Restoring the carriage is a huge job that requires the skills of local signwriter Ross Hastie and wheelwright Greg Rowland, and made more complicated by the impending deadline of this year's festival. It's a bit of a musical mystery when the team are faced with Erica's Stroviol. In the family since the 1930s, it belonged to Erica's father, who was a passionate musician who played in several local groups. The distinctive horn has become detached from this turn-of-the-century musical oddity, so it might take more than just the skills of stringed instrument expert Becky Houghton to get a tune out of it once again. In nearby Edinburgh, Will stops off at Stewart Christie and Co, Scotland's oldest bespoke tailors, to discover how their handmade tweed clothes balance modern demands with century-old techniques. Will gets an insight into every step of the process, from an initial measuring to getting on the scissors himself and cutting out his own waistcoat pattern from the tweed cloth the company built their name on.
Episode 11
44 mins
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. Since 2020, Manchester Town Hall has been undergoing the biggest heritage renovation project in the UK, at a cost of £325 million. Now, Repair Shop horologist Steve Fletcher has been invited to lend a hand getting its huge clock back up and running. So how will he fare on this super-sized fix? Will is in nearby Oldham to pick up a vintage fruit machine that's close to John's heart. Inherited by him after a tragic accident, the mechanism is jammed, the paint scuffed, and he's never seen the lights working. Decades of experience mean game machine expert 'Pinball' Geoff is the perfect man for the job, but it will be a painstaking process getting it to pay out again. Then we travel from the 1970s back to the 17th century as Will gets a crash course in traditional globe-making from man of many talents Jonathan Wright. Blending cartography, carpentry and several other heritage skills, he both restores antique examples and creates brand new globes on commission, making him the perfect teacher to show Will what goes into this delicate work.
Episode 12
44 mins
The team help the people trying to save Britain's oldest wooden ship, a football cap brings back treasured memories, and Lucia sees a complicated wooden puzzle at the V&A Museum.
Episode 13
The experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired and visit a local crafting hero. We head off to north east England, where Will and Suzie unearth a true hidden gem, one of the few theatres in the country to have retained its original Victorian stage machinery. After a devastating fire, this decades-long restoration project is nearing completion, so our resident master carpenter is going to lend a hand getting the various traps and lifts under the stage ready for their big debut. In Northumberland, Suzie meets Anoop to pick up a backpack she will take down to the barn to restore. It's not just any bag, though - it's an emotionally charged reminder of his mother, who sent it to him as a gift after he had to flee apartheid South Africa. Anoop has travelled the world with this special bag, and it's starting to show its age - so will Suzie's repairs to the lining and new straps make it fit to travel once again? While in the north, woodworker Will stops by to get some tips and training from marquetry artist and restorer Victoria Walpole. It's delicate and sometimes dangerous work that involves small slivers of wood and an extremely sharp saw or scalpel, but in the hands of a master like Victoria, it can yield stunning results.
Episode 14
44 mins
The team restore some Victorian Stage Machinery of the Tyne Theater and Opera House, Suzie hears a story of injustice from apartheid South Africa, and wood lover Will gets to grips with the delicate art of marquetry.
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