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The Repair Shop at Christmas review: We defy you not to sob

Source: BBC/Ricochet/Cody Burridge

It takes precisely 12 minutes for tears to fall in this festive edition of BBC One’s The Repair Shop, a show that pulls on the heart strings all year round, but never more so than at Christmas. Mark Stuckey, the series’ resident radio and electronics expert, is the first to get choked up.

He has just met Jo Thomas, who arrives at the bauble-decked workshop with a broken record player housed

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