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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Lydia Veljanovski

Delight for hairdresser's son as radio from 1970s barber's salon is restored by Repair Shop team

As a nine-year-old lad, Karl ­Williams would head to his parents’ hair salon after school with his three brothers.

He still remembers the lively ­atmosphere in the tiny space, which was affectionately known as the Sweatbox, in Hackney, East London.

More than 50 years later, Karl has sought out BBC One’s The Repair Shop to mend the tiny portable radio that provided the soundtrack of that time.

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