Episode
The Repair Shop: Grandma's Running Shoes
Overview
Jay Blades and the team takes on a pair of running shoes used in Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics, a photograph of an ANC activist, a cherished clarinet and a push-along donkey.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2021-07-14
- Runtime
- 57 min
Episode context
Grandma's Running Shoes is Episode 4 in Series 8 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2021-07-14. The runtime is 57 min.
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Episode 3: Mantle Clock
Jay Blades and the team restore a ship-shaped clock, a ceramic night light, a 1960s skateboard and a teddy that accompanied a young man through life-changing surgery.
Episode 5: Painting of Queen Henrietta Maria
Jay Blades and the team tackle a rare historic painting, a vintage sewing machine, a Beatles souvenir from the Swinging Sixties and a splintered stained-glass window.
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Episode 6: Dolls Amy and David
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Episode 1: Charles II Portrait
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Episode 7: Diana the Doll
Jay Blades and the team restore a beloved doll, a metal guitar, a symbolic sculpture and a suitcase that accompanied an army officer as he journeyed through Africa.
Episode 8: Symbolic Seascape
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Episode 9: Stone Bird Bath
Jay Blades and the team restore a crumbling bird bath, a harmonium in need of a tune up, a document belonging to a survivor of the Titanic and a 1950s bear in need of TLC.
Episode 10: Barber's Chair
Jay Blades and the team restore a barber’s chair, an Iranian musical instrument, a roulette machine and a carousel horse.
Episode 11: Chesterfield Armchair
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Episode 12: Pottery Vegetable Patch Signs
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Episode 13: Grandmother's Midwifery Bag
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