{"id":10166,"date":"2022-01-19T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1551204"},"modified":"2022-01-19T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T21:25:07","slug":"repair-shop-expert-says-fixing-radio-took-longer-than-usual-in-emotional-episode","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/repair-shop-expert-says-fixing-radio-took-longer-than-usual-in-emotional-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair Shop expert says fixing radio took longer than usual in \u201cemotional\u201d episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Grace Henry\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 19 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Repair Shop continued this week, with radio expert Mark Stuckey getting his hands on a radio, which had been mute for over 50 years.<\/p>\n

Brought to the workshop by Luigi Ciaburri, the radio was originally passed down to Luigi by his Italian father, who emigrated with his wife to Wales to begin a new life and raise their family.<\/p>\n

It held huge significance for Luigi, as his family would sit together and listen to it for hours, and it helped them all to integrate into life in the UK and to learn English.<\/p>\n

After dismantling the entire workings, Stuckey was able to bring the radio \u201cback to life\u201d, but it was no easy feat, with the expert telling RadioTimes.com<\/a> that it took much longer than his usual repairs as the radio restarted and \u201cfailed\u201d many times.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThis was a bit longer because after it came back to life and then failed, it took probably a couple of months or so trying to find a suitable donor, so I could get the parts. And that\u2019s literally going round and looking and talking to people, and hopefully somebody somewhere is going to have a similar type model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is we talk about mobile phones being changed \u2013 radio manufacturers are doing the same. They want us to constantly buy to keep their factories running. So a manufacturer may have seven or eight versions of different models out in a year. The older the item is \u2013 the radio in this particular case \u2013 the harder it is to source. Somebody somewhere will have one, it just takes time to locate it.\u201d<\/p>

Thankfully, Stuckey was able to restore the radio to its original glory, which led to a very \u201cemotional\u201d reveal for Luigi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get something like that working again \u2013 the family originally was using it to learn how to speak English \u2013 I am hearing the same sound coming out of that loudspeaker as the day he first heard it. So the past and the present are literally linked together. And then we\u2019ve breached that decade gap,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

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