The Repair Shop

BBC One West

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday 18 March

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Gary from north Wales brings in an electric guitar that once belonged to his father Eddie Clayton - who once played in a skiffle group with none other than a pre-Beatles Ringo Starr. The instrument is now damaged and no longer working, so restorer Julyan Wallis gets to work. Other items are an exquisite bangle worn by the owner's grandmother, who left Guyana for the UK in 1962 as part of the Windrush generation, a family's rediscovered set of Kent peg tiles and a leather tallit bag - a Jewish family heirloom passed down through generations when a boy celebrates his bar mitzvah