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Can we guess what The Restore Store’s Mark Stuckey is referring to when he comes out with the next comment on tonight’s present?
“We’ve got a significant disaster right here!” he pronounces, considerably alarmingly.
Good Lord, we’re pondering. Is the barn on fireplace? Has its roof caved in? No, it’s worse. Mark is asking this a “main” disaster, bear in mind. Not “a little bit of a nuisance”.
OK, how about one other clue?
“Actually, we’ve had a barbecue!” he’s telling us subsequent.
Hmm, nicely, that narrows it down a bit. In the event that they’ve “actually” had a barbecue, that may solely imply one factor. It might probably solely imply they’ve had a barbecue. I’m unsure why he considers {that a} “main disaster” however possibly the drumsticks weren’t cooked.
Oh, however cling on, I believe we might have been barking up the mistaken tree right here. Particularly, what’s occurred, Mark now explains, is “the mixed transformer and motor have utterly failed.”
So he should be referring to the previous reel-to-reel tape recorder on the worktop in entrance of him. Sure, that’ll be the “main disaster” he’s encountered. Now that he’s taken off its casing and uncovered its inside workings, he’s found that they very a lot aren’t. Working, that’s.
This can be a fear, as a result of the chap who’s introduced it in would like to have it working once more. It has a really particular tape on it, he’s defined — a recording of his dad, who used to sing in his native golf equipment within the 70s. To listen to that once more in spite of everything these years could be superb.
“So why haven’t you simply performed the tape on a special machine?” Mark surprisingly doesn’t ask him.
Anyway, now that Mark’s seen the state of that motor, what’s the prognosis?
“It’s all charred and past restore,” he pronounces.
Sorry, it’s what? “Past restore”?
Effectively, that’s no good, is it? This isn’t The Past-Restore Store.
Thoughts you, it’s a nice concept for a spin-off — a low-budget model the place they make use of no specialists, only a grumpy bloke who stands on the counter, takes one take a look at no matter you’ve introduced in and goes: “Naah, might as nicely bin that, pal.”
Sure, I can see that being fairly a success.
Oh, and earlier than you ask, Mark does certainly handle to restore the unrepairable tape recorder.
The person works miracles, bear in mind. Actually.
The Restore Store is enjoying at 8pm tonight on BBC 1.
Mark Stuckey, Michael Whitehead and Lucia Scalisi on The Restore Store (Picture: BBC)
HELP! I BOUGHT IT AT AUCTION WITH SARAH BEENY, C4, 8pm
Sure, it’s one other version of the present through which we meet individuals who didn’t truly purchase something at public sale with Sarah Beeny, regardless of what the title suggests, however purchased it on their very own and are actually telling her all about it when she comes to fulfill them later. This week’s purchases embrace what locals apparently check with as “Norfolk’s Creepiest Home” (which sounds just like the title of a property present on Paramount+ and I think might nicely develop into one). Will patrons Luke and Sarah do it up or knock it down?
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THE OCTOPUS IN MY HOUSE, BBC 4, 8pm
Watch this documentary, and also you’ll by no means take a look at an octopus in the identical gentle once more. And also you’ll definitely by no means order one in a restaurant. For his analysis into octopus behaviour, Prof. David Scheel brings one house to stay with him and his daughter, and shortly turns into amazed at how good this creature is, because of the truth that it has 9 brains (the primary one, plus a mini-brain in every arm). She even watches TV with them. Thoughts you, she doesn’t appear fairly good sufficient to seize the distant and swap channels when a present is blatantly garbage, which you’d have thought she’d be fairly adept at.
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