The Repair Shop
Season 12 Episode 5 of 14
The team welcome the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage into the Repair Shop who brings with him a harmonium, the subject of one of his poems that brings back memories of his late father. Cobbler Dean Westmoreland is given the task of repairing Valerie's pair of children's leather clogs that were bought to help her sister with mobility issues balance in the 1950s. Kirsten Ramsay is tasked with reviving Martin's broken sculpture depicting his mother as a young woman made by a Czechoslovakian art student in 1947. Finally, Kirsty visits jeweller Richard Talman, hoping he can fix her mum's silver charm bracelet gifted to her mother by her father in the early 1960s
The Repair Shop airs on Quest at 10:00 PM, Tuesday 18 February. (Subtitles.)
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