Episode
The Repair Shop: African Painting
Overview
Today, there’s a dilapidated barber’s pole with huge family significance, an important African painting, and a wooden box that hid a life-changing secret.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2019-04-10
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
African Painting is Episode 8 in Series 4 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2019-04-10. The runtime is 44 min.
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