The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review

BARGAIN HUNT JUBILEE SPECIAL/ THE REPAIR SHOP JUBILEE SPECIAL

BBC One, 12.15pm/8pm

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The BBC repurposes more long-running favourites for the Jubilee. One of the hardiest perennials of daytime television here receives a light one-off refurb while otherwise retaining its knowing cheesiness, firmly in place since its earliest days under David Dickinson. Host Charlie Ross gives two teams £300 and one hour to find three items to auction, one of which must have some form of “royal connection”. In this case that means a natty silver teaspoon and bog-standard coronation mug, but surprises always loom. Ross also has a nose around the royal carriages at the National Railway Museum, from Victoria’s plush affair with electric lighting to the armoured version used during the Second World War.

Jay Blades and the team step up for prime-time, called upon to restore items of national import – the lantern which was used in the Tower of London’s Ceremony of the Keys for more than a century – and personal significan­ce: a tandem last ridden at the Silver Jubilee; a jacket for a pearly Prince. The beauty of the show remains, as ever, twofold: in watching great artisans executing their jobs well and in its admirably democratic approach, with each arrival given the same level of care. Gabriel Tate

 ?? ?? Bargain Hunt: Charlie Ross searches for royal treasures
Bargain Hunt: Charlie Ross searches for royal treasures

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