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Cold, clear water drips from yellowing leaves.
A thin mist hangs over fields still silvery with last nights frost.
When they inevitably do, the man, also inevitably, bursts into tears.
The show began in an early-evening slot on BBC2, the state broadcasters secondary channel.
EvenThe Great British Baking Showhas winners and losers.
The Repair Shophas none of that.
It doesnt need that kind of manufactured drama.
But merely being a televisual warm blanket would explain only a little of the shows broad appeal.
Nobody likes this situation.
One of Britains best-loved writers tackled this exact problem usingboots as an example.
The first visitors to the shop are sisters bringing their fathers pump organ in for repair.
Recently, thegovernment destroyedthe documentation that proved they had entered the country legally, and many were deported.
Because whatThe Repair Shopis really about is death.
