Nestled deep in the British countryside lies a workshop where broken, battered and beloved artifacts and antiques are brought back to life.

The Repair Shop

A customer has a knotty nautical problem that leaves furniture restorer Will Kirk all at sea. Jay Blades and Tim Weeks get a vintage gramophone looking and sounding like new. Soft toy specialists Amanda and Julie take on a young lady suffering the effects of years of love and affection.

Toy Boat

A customer has a knotty nautical problem for furniture restorer Will Kirk; Jay Blades and Tim Weeks get a gramophone looking and sounding like new; soft-toy specialists Amanda and Julie work on a lady suffering the effects of years of affection.

Gramophone, Lucy Doll, Sail Boat

Dominic Chinea has to future-proof an old Cornish museum sign; Steven Fletcher has to steer an old clunker back onto the road; Julie and Amanda start treatment on George, a very special teddy who has lost one of his eyes and his growl.

Lucia Scalisi is presented with a perforated painting by Fred Appleyard; Will Kirk has a homemade riddle with over 100 pieces; a family heirloom with huge sentimental value needs the prowess of ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay.

Horologist Steven Fletcher gets a Victorian cuckoo clock singing again; ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay attempts a seamless repair on a seventies bowl; furniture restorer Will Kirk navigates a 200-year-old sea chest.

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

Horologist Steve Fletcher and furniture restorer Will Kirk restore a grandfather clock that has been in a family for four generations.

Grandfather Clock

Clock specialist Steven Fletcher employs his skills to fix a clapping monkey; Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay and furniture restorer Will Kirk restore a Victorian traveling box; A 1950s Wurlitzer jukebox arrives to test the skills of Laurence Richardson.

Two royal Worcester vases from the early 1900s; Horologist Steven Fletcher and expert metalworker Dominic Chinea fix a titanic timepiece - the Cirencester village clock; The team mends a piece of farming history, a nineteenth-century hay press.

Art conservator Lucia Scalisi rescues a painting; Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay reunites the broken pieces of a plaque that was shattered over forty-five years ago; Furniture restorers Will Kirk and Jay Blades fix a Japanese lacquered jewelry box.

Ceramic Plaque

Today in the repair shop, a precious 19th-century Italian chair tests Jay Blades's soft and hard furnishing skills. Resident ceramicist Kirsten Ramsey painstakingly puts the broken bits of a shattered piece by Jean Lurcat, a contemporary of Picasso's, back together again. And furniture restorer Will Kirk sets to work on a very special jewellery box.

Italian Chair

Ceramics conservator Kirstin Ramsay restores a Victorian garden gnome; Firefighting historian Stuart Black restores an antique helmet; Music box expert Stephen Kember brings a treasured family piece back to life before its owner finds out.

Victorian Gnome

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Jay Blades and horologist Steve Fletcher work on a timepiece made by a man who was completely blind; Will Kirk restores a fifty-year-old wooden flying fish that may have been carved by a descendant of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

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