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The Repair Shop 

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Even if Elon Musk is right and in 100 years we’re all living on Mars, The Repair Shop (BBC1) will still be going. It’s an eternal format.

But the family heirlooms taken for restoration in the 22nd century might be less enchanting . . . battered Playstations, or electric scooters.

It’s not hard to imagine a half-human, half-robot bringing an iPhone with a cracked screen to be mended. ‘This was my great-great-grandad’s,’ the android will say, leaking metallic tears. ‘He used to spend all day and night on it, just staring at TikTok and scrolling through Instagram. It meant so much to him.’

If that sounds unlikely, so does the thought of cherishing a cheap portable radio from the 1970s. But to three brothers who grew up singing along in their Dad’s hairdresser’s salon, the tinny little music box was priceless.

It didn’t take much fixing. A new connector for the nine volt battery, a couple of replacement transistors and a bit of glue to fix the broken ferrite bar antenna, and it was as good as new.

'Even if Elon Musk is right and in 100 years we’re all living on Mars, The Repair Shop (BBC1) will still be going. It’s an eternal format'

'Even if Elon Musk is right and in 100 years we’re all living on Mars, The Repair Shop (BBC1) will still be going. It’s an eternal format'

If the boys twiddle the dial a bit, they might be able to hear Tony Blackburn, Johnnie Walker and Steve Wright. It’s not just the radios from that era that are still working.

Not much repair was needed either for the most touching items on the workbench, two little leather boots belonging to 83-year-old Nechama. When she was a toddler in Tel Aviv, her parents saved every penny

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