Episode
The Repair Shop: Tape-Recording Machine
Overview
The team takes on a broken tape-recording machine, a costume that once belonged to a 1950s strong woman and a broken wind-up car.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2019-12-13
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Tape-Recording Machine is Episode 20 in Series 5 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2019-12-13. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 19: Homemade Gramophone
The team takes on a smashed piggy bank, a homemade gramophone that has lost its voice and a tarnished 19th-century ceremonial helmet.
Episode 21: Jamaican Pump Organ
The team takes on a Jamaican pump organ, an RAF bomber pilot's hat, a baby crib made during the First World War and a naval rigging kit.
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