Episode
The Repair Shop: Episode 20
Overview
The team fix a 100-year-old handwritten Qur’an passed down four generations of women, and a fun-loving nonagenarian prepares to take his family’s old scooter for a spin.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2023-09-20
- Runtime
- 57 min
Episode context
Episode 20 is Episode 20 in Series 12 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2023-09-20. The runtime is 57 min.
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Episode 19
A former professional goalkeeper brings in a 1970s football programme signed by Pele. And a broken guitar that helped a teenager through lockdown is revived.
Episode 21
The team fix a velvet poster of a black panther that symbolises power and resilience to its owner and an unusual pair of wooden sandals from Punjab dating back to the 1800s.
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