The Repair Shop on the Road - Season 1

In this episode, the experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired, and visit a local crafting hero. 

Will and Dom are in Aberfeldy's Crannog Centre, where visitors experience recreations of 5,000-year-old traditional dwellings. After a devastating fire three years ago put the project in jeopardy, thatcher Scott is looking to the future and building a new cookhouse, using traditional techniques and local materials. It could mean big business for the centre and increased opportunities to work with the local community, but creating Iron Age dwellings in the modern age is anything but simple. 

Will then heads off to Scone Palace, crowning place of Scottish kings, to meet a couple with a family heirloom in need of rescue. It's a handwritten Gaelic piping music book, handed down from Ian's great-grandfather Donald, known as the Hero of Alma after his actions in the Crimean War. Now severely damaged, the music in its brittle pages might be lost forever if bookbinder Chris Shaw cannot bring it back from the brink. Ian will never play the songs it contains, as he has been battling motor neurone disease for the past decade, but he hopes if Chris Shaw is successful, the book can be passed down to his own son, also named Donald in honour of his ancestor. 

Always in search of a new challenge, Dom joins a Perth-based family business whose handmade sporrans are the perfect accessory to Scotland's famous kilts. It's a critically endangered heritage craft that dates back to the 12th century, and the family is turning to technology to keep up with the challenge faced by cheaper, mass-produced versions made abroad. Dom is always eager to get on the tools, so what will his hosts make of his attempts at leatherworking?

The team face their quirkiest fix yet – a giant fibreglass cow lantern. Also, luthier Julyan brings a banjolele back to life, and Dom gets a crash course in brilliant cutting.

Carpenter Will and horologist Steve are far from home today, exploring Ayrshire on Scotland's west coast. Their first stop is the Scottish Boat Building School in Irvine, where Tom is waiting with a very unusual vessel. It's a three-piece canoe designed in the 1930s and small enough to fit in the guard's van of a train, which meant tourists could bring their own canoes on holiday in the years before owning a car was commonplace. It represents a different kind of freedom for Tom, though. His achondroplasia means a regular-size canoe is too difficult to manoeuvre. If this folding version can be fixed, he will finally have the freedom to take his daughter out exploring the waterways of Britain. 

Ayrshire is the birthplace of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, and many of the towns and villages in the region can boast strong links to his life and works. So it's no surprise that when Will is called to Barr Castle in Galston, he comes face-to-face with a very special artefact. It's a windowpane with a hand inscription by Robert Burns himself. However, it has suffered some damage in the past, so for decades its current custodians have had it hidden away in a cupboard for safekeeping. With the help of ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay, they hope to once again put it on display. Fixing glass is notoriously difficult, and Kirsten definitely feels the pressure of getting such an important object looking back to its best. 

While in the area, Steve takes the chance to visit Kays in Mauchline, who have been crafting curling stones for over 170 years. Using a dense granite quarried from a single Scottish island, these dedicated craftspeople hone stones of unparalleled quality for use in the winter Olympics. Steve gets the chance to help with the process, but will it be gold, silver or bronze for his efforts?

In this episode, the experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired, and visit a local crafting hero. 

Joining Dom in the Highlands is Inverness-born traditional building conserver Rich. They are on the way to Nairn Museum, where renovations have revealed some unusual wall decorations – artworks painted directly on the bare walls of the museum's attic. Left behind by Polish soldiers stationed there during World War II, this art will be lost forever if it can't be removed. However, removing century-old plaster is a delicate business, so there is no guarantee the artworks will survive the process. 

Dom then travels to North Kessock to collect another precious item to be repaired back at the barn. He meets Carole, whose unusual clockwork ship in a glass dome evokes happy memories of childhood holidays in the Wester Ross village of Plockton. However, the paper sea it once sailed on is brittle and torn, and the tune no longer plays. Will David Burville be able to get this family heirloom - handed down from Carole's great-aunt Elsie - making music on the high seas again? 

While Dom and Rich have their hands full at the museum, Will is in Beauly to meet Alan MacPherson, who has gone from keen shinty player to shinty stick maker. Now producing more than 1,400 shinty sticks each year from his Highland workshop, Alan instructs Will in the intricacies of creating equipment to stand up to the rigors of this hard-fought game. Once the woodwork is over, it is time for Will to test his sporting prowess.

The boys help save a monument that's crumbling before their eyes, Will brings a huge drum back to the barn, and Dom gets on the tools with the last scissor-maker in Sheffield.

In this episode, the experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the story behind a new treasure to be repaired, and visit a local crafting hero. 

Will and Kirsten are in Dumfries and Galloway, in the Scottish Borders, to help with a project close to the hearts of the local community. Firefighter Rodger was one of the first responders to the Lockerbie bombing and was tasked with collecting photographs of the event and its aftermath for a report. These photographs have since lain undisturbed in Rodger's attic, and he would now like them collected and preserved in a book for the new memorial centre planned at Tundergarth Kirk. 

Hoping to get a beloved childhood toy back on track, Will is joined by Scotland-based automata expert Michael. Sheila has brought the pair a clockwork train set that was her father's pride and joy until it was damaged during a fight with Sheila's siblings many years ago. Now, a gummed-up mechanism and twisted tracks mean this is one train that will never run on schedule. However, between Michael's mechanical know-how and Will's paintwork, the train might just be brought back into service. 

Ceramics expert Kirsten is used to fixing broken jugs and vases but until now has never actually had to make her own. She is in Corsock to learn the secrets behind slipware from potters Doug and Hannah, who are preserving this medieval technique, which uses liquid clay known as slip, to decorate pots, jugs and anything else for the home. However, it's a messy business, so Kirsten's white jacket may not make it through unscathed.

The team head to Wiltshire to rescue an RAF memorial bench, paper conservator Angie struggles with a challenging Hindu holy book, and Will discovers traditional bee skeps.

Dom and Lucia help an iconic Glasgow landmark that has lost its lustre, save an endangered Chinese Unicorn, and discover how street art is changing one city before our very eyes.

The team help a charity get their iconic bus back on the road, Mark Stuckey reaches for the stars fixing an unusual projector, and Will is wowed by the lost art of encaustic tiles.

The experts race against time to restore a historic carriage before a town procession, a unique musical instrument needs some TLC, and Will gets a makeover at Scotland's oldest bespoke tailors.