0:00:02 > 0:00:03The nation's favourite celebrities...
0:00:03 > 0:00:05We are special then, are we?
0:00:05 > 0:00:06Oh, that's excellent.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08..paired up with an expert...
0:00:08 > 0:00:09We're a very good team, you and me.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11..and a classic car.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14Their mission - to scour Britain for antiques.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15I've no idea what it is.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Ooh, go on, have a stroke.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21Yes!
0:00:21 > 0:00:23- But it's no easy ride. - THEY GASP
0:00:23 > 0:00:25There's no accounting for taste!
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Who will find a hidden gem?
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Who will take the biggest risks?
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Will anybody follow expert advice?
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- D'you like them?- No.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40- Are you happy? Promise? - Yes, ecstatic.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Time to put your pedal to the metal,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45this is Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Yeah!
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Today we're taking a magical mystery tour
0:00:54 > 0:00:57with two of our finest TV journalists
0:00:57 > 0:00:58and one silver Beetle.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Well, every time I see a Morris Minor, I just think...
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- No, this is a Herbie! - Is this a Herbie?
0:01:05 > 0:01:08- This is a Herbie, darling. This is a Volkswagen Beetle!- Oh, right!
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Yes! This is Herbie with a haircut, cos we've got...
0:01:11 > 0:01:13The bottom line is, I do not like gears.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16See, I see no point in a geared car.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18No, you see, I love gears, cos I think you've got
0:01:18 > 0:01:21much more control over the car than you have with an automatic.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23But you're a control freak, Angela, you like it! THEY LAUGH
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Yes, our strong female leads - and friends -
0:01:26 > 0:01:29are Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon.
0:01:29 > 0:01:30Thank you!
0:01:30 > 0:01:32We're like Thelma and Louise in this, aren't we?
0:01:32 > 0:01:34We are. We might never come back off this programme.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37They started out reading the news in the '70s
0:01:37 > 0:01:40and have gone on to have long and venerable careers in television,
0:01:40 > 0:01:44trying their hand at everything from antiques to ballroom dancing.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- BRUCE FORSYTH: - Thank you, Darren and Gloria.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Yes, Angela can certainly cut a rug too
0:01:53 > 0:01:55and she used to present Top Gear.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58It was when we joined the EEC, the common market,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00that the rumpus really started.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Gloria, I'm slightly worried the way you keep
0:02:02 > 0:02:04putting your feet to the floor...
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I know, I know, I keep doing that instinctively, don't I?
0:02:07 > 0:02:10But these days, Angela and Gloria
0:02:10 > 0:02:13are regularly to be found writing wrongs on Rip-Off Britain.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Today's experts - dealer David Harper and auctioneer Paul Laidlaw -
0:02:18 > 0:02:21have mixed feelings about working with consumer champions.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24We've got two icons, haven't we, today?
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- Mind you, I can't help but feel we're being infiltrated.- Why?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Well, this thing that they do - Rip-Off Britain.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34- "The sordid underbelly of the antiques world..."- Yeah!
0:02:34 > 0:02:36"We picked up on this pair of likely lads."
0:02:36 > 0:02:37"Look at the way they negotiate!"
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Celebrities and experts have £400 each,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and they're driving through the Sussex countryside
0:02:43 > 0:02:47in a 1970s Volkswagen and a 1960s MG Midget,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49or at least that's the plan. Standby!
0:02:50 > 0:02:53- It's losing all power.- Has it gone?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55ENGINE RATTLES AND SPLUTTERS
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Ah, it's died!
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Get out and get under then, chaps.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03You'll want somebody obviously at the helm, as it were.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Crikey, our jalopies usually last a bit longer than this!
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Give it a whirl.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- HE REVS ENGINE - Oh, it's a steam engine?!
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Ha-ha, now, quickly!
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Go, baby! Yeah, you can do it, come on!
0:03:14 > 0:03:18DAVID LAUGHS It's got nothing!
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Oh, hang on! Rescue could be at hand.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23- Having trouble, boys? - DAVID: Yes.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25GLORIA: Aren't you lucky?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- I am very good. I bet you're glad to see us.- Lovely to see you.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29- You too. - You've no idea, life-saver!
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- David, hello! - Really lovely to see you.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33What d'you reckon, do we give them a lift?
0:03:33 > 0:03:35- GLORIA: They're good-looking boys. - Are they?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37DAVID: Really? GLORIA: Very well turned out.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39DAVID: Never been told that before!
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Gloria, I think we've scored, darling. Get in the back!
0:03:42 > 0:03:45So, the celebrities get them out of there.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Our trip starts out at Lewis, in the South Downs,
0:03:49 > 0:03:52and then heads north and east towards Kent,
0:03:52 > 0:03:55before making for the capital and an auction at Chiswick.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58GLORIA: I would say this is rather cosy in the back, wouldn't you?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00DAVID: We're getting very cosy here, aren't we?
0:04:00 > 0:04:04- GLORIA: Yeah, I know! - Well, don't get too cosy! Not with my expert!
0:04:04 > 0:04:06THEY LAUGH DAVID: Are we together, Angela?
0:04:06 > 0:04:07I think we are, yes.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09GLORIA: Ah! Well, I guess we're together then?
0:04:09 > 0:04:12- Yeah.- Well, you know, I like big, handsome men.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13And you ended up with me, unfortunately!
0:04:13 > 0:04:15GLORIA LAUGHS
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Lewis, the county town of East Sussex,
0:04:18 > 0:04:22sits within Britain's newest national park.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Ah, now, there's an encouraging sign.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26This is where we're going?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Angela and David are the first to squeeze from the Beetle into a shop.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31- Hello!- Morning.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Hi, I'm Angela.- Michelle.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35- Hello, Michelle.- Hello, Michelle. David, nice to see you.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36- Hi, David.- Hi, there.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- This looks very exciting, can we dive in?- Yeah.- All right.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- Where do we start?- We'll shout you when we want a deal doing.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Now, this is normally where our celebrity and experts
0:04:47 > 0:04:49set about doing a little bonding.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Well, I love beautiful Georgian furniture
0:04:51 > 0:04:52cos it's so beautifully made.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- Oh, yes! - When did you last see a drawer
0:04:55 > 0:04:57that had tongue and groove on the doors?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00You know what? This is my kind of woman, this is perfect!
0:05:00 > 0:05:01THEY LAUGH
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Going well, but then with a CV like Angela's,
0:05:04 > 0:05:06she's almost an expert herself.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- That's a cake stand.- Yeah, I know.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09- It's heavily carved.- Yeah.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12It's probably Indian, from the days of the Raj.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Oh, don't be silly, it's modern. - Yeah! Is it?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Of course it is.- No, don't think so. Let's have a look.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- I don't think that's terribly old. - Let's see.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- I bet you that's not very old. - Let's have a look.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24No, I think you're actually probably quite right.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26OK, delete that! THEY LAUGH
0:05:26 > 0:05:29I think we already know who's in charge here, don't we?
0:05:29 > 0:05:34- Please can I handle that? - Which...thing?- This one.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- Isn't that lovely? Look at that. - Oh, my gosh.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Look at that.- Isn't that delicious?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41How much is this? Ah, £215?!
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- You know, actually, that's not that bad.- That's not bad.- No.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46It's not bad. Is it actually a Liberty piece?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48- Turn it over on the other side. - It is, it's a Liberty & Co.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- There may have been a pair. - Definitely would have been a pair.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52It wouldn't have been one on its own.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Is it marked Tudric on the base?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Tudric, there it is.- There you go. OK, let me have a look at the number.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01So, Tudric is a design purely made for Liberty.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Save your breath, David, Angela already knows.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- I would guess that's First World War-ish.- That's lovely, isn't it?
0:06:07 > 0:06:101915, the latter end of the Art Nouveau,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12but look at the shapes, oh!
0:06:12 > 0:06:16There's no profit to be had, however, nice though it is.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17I would have that in my home.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21I wouldn't just have it on display, I would handle that and...
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Tactile, isn't it? - It's a touchy piece.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- Oh!- Yeah, have a stroke.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- Oh, go on, have a stroke. - Ooh, I say! Missus!
0:06:27 > 0:06:29THEY LAUGH
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- I'm just going to hold on to it. - That's like a teddy bear.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35This is all very well, you two, but what are you actually going to buy?
0:06:35 > 0:06:39You see, this is very cool and trendy now, look at that nest of tables.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- Very G Plan that, isn't it? - Very G Plan...
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Ten or 15 years ago it would have been put into a skip, now it's...
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Oh, it is G Plan! There we are, it's vintage G Plan.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- Goodness me.- Look at that.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51It's bang on trend - 1970s.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54G Plan sticker's still on the bottom.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- But what's nice about this, Angela, it's well-made.- It is.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Unlike modern furniture today,
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- it was made to last for a very long time.- It's nice.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04The distinctive, but affordable designs of the range,
0:07:04 > 0:07:08were first produced in the '50s by the Gomme company of High Wycombe
0:07:08 > 0:07:10and cleverly branded as G Plan.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12- Where we selling?- London?
0:07:12 > 0:07:13- London?- Yes.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15So we've got to bear that in mind, haven't we?
0:07:15 > 0:07:20Sounds like Chiswick might have that little nest coming its way.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25What about Gloria and Paul, bit more room in the Beetle now?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29When I was very young, my mum, you know, she would haggle on everything.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32She would say, "Is that the best you can do?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33"Could you not take a bit off for that?"
0:07:33 > 0:07:35And I used to be so embarrassed I had to walk away.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39But now, of course, you know, ever since I became an adult,
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I've always haggled, but then my children are embarrassed,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43and so it sort of goes on.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Those two could make a formidable team, you know.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- Gypsy caravan on the right-hand side. - It is!
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- Hello. Hi, how are you? - Hello there, how are you doing?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55No, we're just loving the caravans, gorgeous.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57It looks like you live in an idyll there!
0:07:57 > 0:08:01- Well, today we do! - How long will you stay in this spot?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Well, we've been here probably four days,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06we're off tomorrow because we worked for a theatre company last year
0:08:06 > 0:08:10pulling their set with the horses.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Oh, yeah.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13And they are doing two shows on Romney Marsh.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16How long will it take you to get from here to Romney Marsh?
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- To get to that part of Kent would be a week, wouldn't it? - WOMAN:- Yeah.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20- A week?- Yeah.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23What a wonderful way though to amble along the road at your own leisure.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26It's lovely when you can stop in a spot like this.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Fantastic.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31While Gloria and Paul are enjoying a chance encounter,
0:08:31 > 0:08:34their rivals are having their first difference of opinion. Stand-by.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- Oh, it's a jolly nice ginger jar that, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Actually, I like that.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- Maybe a bit traditional. - Oh, I don't know.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- I love Poole, but for me, that's just too traditional.- Really?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46For me, it is.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48I think he's got a point, Angela.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I like it.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52It's beautifully made, there's not a mark on it.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- It's really good quality and I think...- OK.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- Can I pop it with the G Plan thingies?- Yeah, do.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Cos I think that's rather nice there.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00- Like that.- OK, put them aside.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- So what have we got so far? We've got 75 and 35.- OK.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Angela gets her way, of course.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08What else is there then?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- Oh, look at that for the bathroom! - Absolutely.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- There is a market for that.- Really?!
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- Yeah.- Needs a bit of a clean.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Does a bit, it's held a lot of wet, damp towels in its time.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20- It's a towel rail.- Yeah, I know.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21I mean, that would come off, wouldn't it?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- But look at its shape, Angela. - I know.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27- Look at that shape. Is that nice? - It's very 1950s, isn't it?
0:09:27 > 0:09:28It is, isn't it?
0:09:28 > 0:09:32- You're right, I think this is second generation Art Deco.- It is.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Because Deco comes to an end
0:09:33 > 0:09:36at the beginning of the Second World War really,
0:09:36 > 0:09:41kicks off again after the war when they're reinventing the style.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Shall we put that with the table and the pot?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Well, I think we're going in the right direction.- What is it, 18 quid? - Yeah.- £18.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Am I allowed to clean that up beforehand?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I think we could sneak it, give it a bath.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52I'd like to clean that up cos that could be quite nice.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54OK, put that aside as well, then.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- We're going very 20th century, aren't we?- We are, aren't we?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00That's right. It's all of at least 14 years old!
0:10:00 > 0:10:01Now for a chat with Michelle.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04- So, we've got the nest of G Plan tables.- Right.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08And we've got the Poole Pottery ginger jar, right?
0:10:08 > 0:10:12What is your best price on that and that?
0:10:12 > 0:10:16The normal trade price would be 65 on the tables
0:10:16 > 0:10:18and 33 on the ginger jar.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Oh, I'm not interested in that, I had a much lower price than that in mind.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23That would be the normal trade price.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27- I'm not interested in normal trade! - We're not normal. - No, you're not, are you?!
0:10:27 > 0:10:28- Oh, no!- No! No...
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Not even going to think about that. - What are you thinking?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Ooh, now, be careful here.- 50 and 25.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Yeah, that's OK.
0:10:36 > 0:10:3875... You gave in too easily!
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Yes, it sounds like you could have pitched a little lower, Angela.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- I think we've got a chance, I do. - So we're going to go 50 for that...
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- 50 for that.- 25 for that or should...20 for that?- I can't do 20.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- You can't do 20? All right, 25 then. - Yeah, that's fine.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52All right, 75 for the two.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54OK, so I think, basically, you've done a deal.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56But what about this?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59OK, now, Michelle, you're really, really going to have to help us out on this.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01What's your best price on that?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02- How much is on it?- It's 18.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05- I could probably do 15. - Oh, Michelle!- How about a tenner?
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- That's what I thought you were going to say.- Yeah, tenner for that.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11She means business. Good luck, Michelle.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Let's do 12.- No, tenner.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16And then that makes it a nice round 85 for the three things.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- OK. OK.- Have we done it?
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Angela has, ha!
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Three items for £85.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29So, what's it like trying to keep up with the indomitable Angela Rippon?
0:11:29 > 0:11:35She knows exactly what she wants, goes for it, and he gets it.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37There is no mucking about.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Impressive stuff. Time for the other two to get started...
0:11:41 > 0:11:44..on the edge of the Ashdown Forest at Nutley.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45- Morning.- Hello.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47- How are you? Gloria.- Welcome.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48- Lovely to see you.- How are you?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- Welcome.- Yeah, very good. - Likewise.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53That's terrific, so you've got all sorts of little niches
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- and shops and...- Lots of different people.- Yeah, lovely.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59And where's yours, Maureen, what do you specialise in?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00I just have a mix of everything.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03That is EXACTLY what they'd like to hear, I'm sure, Maureen.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Paul is his usual thorough self, of course,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09and Gloria knows a thing or two about antiques.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Am I right in saying that this is a majolica?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- Indeed, we could go with that. - What do you think?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17It wants to be English and it wants to be 1860s or 1880s,
0:12:17 > 0:12:22but more importantly, it wants to be nicer than that and fine.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24I mean, this is loosely decorative. Yeah, so it's...
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Is it like cabbage leaves?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31I don't know, but the glazes aren't particularly finely applied.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- This isn't the majolica we were looking for, sadly.- Yeah.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37That's what he's here for, keep looking.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39A pair of lampposts, perhaps?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- So they're just reproduction ones, are they?- Yes, and...
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Also, the ticket says, what? PAUL LAUGHS
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- 495!- 495 each!
0:12:46 > 0:12:48We haven't got the money anyway!
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Foiled again!
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Can Paul come up with anything better though?
0:12:52 > 0:12:56This is...a money box.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57You could tell me that,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00but it's the distinctive little stamped brass plaque
0:13:00 > 0:13:03that caused me to ask to see it.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05And it says in this instance,
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- "From the decking of the Mauretania..."- Whoa!
0:13:09 > 0:13:10"..the Old Lady of the Atlantic."
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Now, what happened is, early 20th century
0:13:12 > 0:13:15when these great battleships and liners were being broken up,
0:13:15 > 0:13:20the teak from the decks was turned into little collectables.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23My problem is, one - they're never that valuable.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27And I must admit, I would like us to spend some money here,
0:13:27 > 0:13:29show some oomph.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Two - it's not in the best of condition, is it?
0:13:34 > 0:13:35- No.- It's a tad tired.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37The ticket price is £14,
0:13:37 > 0:13:41but Paul's also spotted a Wemyss pot.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46Wemyss Ware, founded in Scotland in the late 19th century...
0:13:46 > 0:13:48The colours are lovely, aren't they?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Well, d'you know, the patterns that we recognise first and foremost,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53and I'm sure you'll have seen them,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- are the pigs with the big cabbage roses on?- Of course.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Yes, by Karl Nekola, that's what we recognise as Wemyss.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02- Identified with the Queen Mum? - Famously collected by.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03- Right.- Yeah.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Now, there's nothing like the royal warrant or its equivalent...
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- Yes.- ..to bring you an audience.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I thought you came with that? PAUL LAUGHS
0:14:10 > 0:14:12There may be a warrant out for me...
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I thought that halo was above your head!
0:14:14 > 0:14:15Let me just have a look at it.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Now, do you see any cracks or chips which would be fatal?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Without my glasses? No.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Tell you what, give it a little tap because if there is no resonance...
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- If it's got a crack, you'll get a real resonance.- Mm-hm.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- Do you like that?- I do.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30- It's pretty. - There may be a problem...
0:14:30 > 0:14:32What?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- What is in?- I guess you would put...
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Well, you're either going to have a very warm cup of tea or coffee
0:14:38 > 0:14:41in your hand, or you might use it to store pencil and pens,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44things like that, but that would be an awful waste, wouldn't it?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- There's a possibility that that's only...- Jam?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Ah, that's where we're going,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- but what would it need if it were for jam?- A lid.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I suspect it may have had a cover,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57possibly even with a little aperture for your preserve spoon.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00- Right, what price is on that one? - It is priced up at £65.
0:15:00 > 0:15:0165, yeah.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05I wonder what Maureen makes of the lid question?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Well, it hasn't got any damage round there though, has it?
0:15:07 > 0:15:10We get that, but many a thing lived in a china cabinet
0:15:10 > 0:15:11and never got put to its...
0:15:11 > 0:15:14- True.- So, do you think, Maureen, if it had had a lid on it,
0:15:14 > 0:15:18- there would be a bit of damage here? - I think there might have been, yes.
0:15:18 > 0:15:23- Is there a margin in there that you could erode to our benefit?- May I?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Of course.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27- How is 50? - Still a bit too high, isn't it?
0:15:27 > 0:15:31For our purposes, I don't think it's a trade purchase.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35- Right, I think we can go for 40. - Could we settle on 35?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Bite the bullet.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41- Let's stick at 40 at the moment. - She's a hard woman.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Oh, she's good, she's good, she's good!
0:15:43 > 0:15:45D'oh! We've met our match!
0:15:45 > 0:15:47At the risk of walking out empty-handed...
0:15:49 > 0:15:52We're thinking 35, we are hoping that maybe you'll meet us there?
0:15:52 > 0:15:56- Could we do 13 each?- I'll give you three quid.- I'm tempted not...
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Yeah, why would we quibble over a few pounds? We're not that hard!
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- Have we just done a deal? - We've done a deal.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- We've broken our duck!- £38!
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- OK?- I financed it. - Thank you very much, Maureen,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08thank you for meeting us in the middle there.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10You're not getting your two quid back.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Hell, yes, I'm getting my £2 back! I would wrestle for £2.
0:16:13 > 0:16:14Well, we have to!
0:16:14 > 0:16:20Phew, that was a titanic struggle! Now, where are Angela and David?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Taking a well-earned rest from all of that it seems...
0:16:23 > 0:16:28just outside Lewis, in the tranquil village of Rodmell,
0:16:28 > 0:16:30where Angela's come to see the country home
0:16:30 > 0:16:32of novelist Virginia Woolf.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Monk's House, now owned by the National Trust,
0:16:35 > 0:16:36is preserved exactly as it was
0:16:36 > 0:16:39when Virginia wrote many of her great works here,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43taking inspiration from the Sussex countryside and the South Downs.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Look at that!
0:16:45 > 0:16:46- Hi!- I'm Angela.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Hi, I'm Vicky, nice to meet you. - Hello, Vicky.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Hi, Vicky, I'm David. Nice to see you.- Ah, this is heaven!- Isn't it?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Look at it, it's so stunning!
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Virginia's sister and fellow Bloomsbury Group member,
0:16:58 > 0:17:02the artist Vanessa Bell, acquired a house nearby in 1916,
0:17:02 > 0:17:06followed a few years later by the writer and her husband, Leonard.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Oh, lovely beams, look.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11The sitting room is furnished with many items by Bell
0:17:11 > 0:17:13and her partner Duncan Grant.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17In London, she was very much part of the Bloomsbury set, wasn't she?
0:17:17 > 0:17:20- Yes, yeah.- With lots of very famous friends.- Mm-hm.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Did they come here and if so, who used to come into this room?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26The whole Bloomsbury Group kind of almost relocated,
0:17:26 > 0:17:28so, you know, round this table you would have had
0:17:28 > 0:17:32the likes of EM Forster, TS Eliot, Lytton Strachey, Vita Sackville-West...
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Oh, gosh.- I mean, it is...- They're big names, aren't they?- Big names.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- Incredibly creative people. - They sat in these chairs? - Mm, they would have, yeah,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41there are photographs of the likes of TS Eliot and EM Forster.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44The energy that must have been in this room with those names...
0:17:44 > 0:17:49- Wouldn't you love to have been a fly on the wall and listened to the conversations?- Ah, yes!- Exactly.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Sometimes, don't you just wish you could go back...?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- If these beams could talk!- Yes!
0:17:53 > 0:17:56But a writer's life is by necessity a mostly solitary one
0:17:56 > 0:18:00and for Virginia Woolf, that meant many hours spent in this annexe,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03which served as both writing room and bedroom.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Oh, what a pretty little room. Where would she have written in here?
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- The chair that you see in the corner...- This one?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14She would have put a board across the arms of that.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- She would have written on her lap.- My gosh.- So, yeah...
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- By hand, of course?- By hand. - No typewriter?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- She did have a typewriter, yeah... - But not here?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Well, she was quite keen to write things by hand.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25She'd also recite a lot of what she'd written,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28make sure the rhythm was right and she'd do that in the bath.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30What are those books with the bindings on the back?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Yeah, so these, it's a complete collection
0:18:32 > 0:18:36- of Arden Shakespeare...she was given in the 1930s as a gift...- Ah!
0:18:36 > 0:18:40And Virginia suffered frequently with issues of mental health
0:18:40 > 0:18:43and also, you know, migraines, bad headaches,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46and when she went through a period like that, she would find cathartic,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49repetitive tasks to undertake,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51and one of them was covering books.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54We've got Antony and Cleopatra, Henry V...
0:18:54 > 0:18:58- And what are they actually covered in?- It is actually marbled paper.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01We don't know whether it was something she produced herself
0:19:01 > 0:19:04or something she purchased, but she was really keen on marbled paper.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07And you can see there, she's also just put hand labels
0:19:07 > 0:19:09on there as well and hand written on them.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11So it's the only manuscript we have of hers in the house.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15There's a reminder of one of Virginia's most famous novels
0:19:15 > 0:19:18in the fireplace with tiles painted by her sister.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21To The Lighthouse, published in 1927,
0:19:21 > 0:19:25was soon followed by the more accessible Orlando -
0:19:25 > 0:19:29much of that book written in Virginia's garden hideaway.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Well, she had a lovely walk to work every day, didn't she? - She did, yeah.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36- Not a bad commute!- Sun shining like today, you can't moan, can you?- Ah!
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Leonard had a saying for it, didn't he?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40He would basically say that she had
0:19:40 > 0:19:42the regularity of a stockbroker on a commute to work
0:19:42 > 0:19:45and it was a very regular lifestyle that she led,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48so she'd be down here every morning, 10am on the dot,
0:19:48 > 0:19:50and then she would go back in for lunch.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Then she'd go on a walk, you know, through the Downs,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55get some more inspiration, come back, work on her writings.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- So these are her glasses? - They are her glasses, yeah.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01- Her pencil?- I'm not sure about the pencil, I can't, you know...
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Yeah, I don't know the history of the pencil,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06but the desk was definitely hers, not that she actually used
0:20:06 > 0:20:10a desk to write, it just used to be somewhere to store papers.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14No, that was done in this chair with a view of her husband's
0:20:14 > 0:20:16beautiful garden outside.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18But it wasn't all hard work for the troubled writer,
0:20:18 > 0:20:22because the Woolfs and their Bloomsbury Group friends
0:20:22 > 0:20:24were very fond of a game of bowls.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27And at Monk's House, you can get on the green yourself.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30There's the jack... Well, we have to put the jack out first, don't we?
0:20:30 > 0:20:31OK.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- Ooh!- Oh, that's close.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40ALL: Oh! ALL LAUGH
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Come on, baby.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45- Rubbish!- Yeah!- Oh!
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Nothing like a couple of vigorous ends after crafting another
0:20:48 > 0:20:50modernist masterpiece.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Oh, I can't believe it, she's knocked you further forward!
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- I'm even closer!- Right, come on. ANGELA LAUGHS
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- Three, four...- No. - ..five, six...- No!
0:20:58 > 0:21:00- I'm closer! - DAVID LAUGHS
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Oh, I do like a happy ending.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04- Girl power, eh? - That's it, girl power.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06You are in the right place for girl power.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Yeah, that's true, that's true.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10It's today's theme, all right. Night-night, then.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12See you soon.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Another day, another motor.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19It's probably better that I drive today
0:21:19 > 0:21:23- because you don't have a great track record with old cars, do you?- Oh-ho!
0:21:23 > 0:21:25How very dare you, Harper!
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Well, I mean, yesterday... MG, you driving,
0:21:27 > 0:21:31doesn't get a mile before the car gives up the ghost!
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- PAUL LAUGHS - It wasn't only the Midget that barely got off the grid
0:21:35 > 0:21:36yesterday though,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40because Gloria and Paul managed just one pot for £38.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42D'oh! We've met our match.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Leaving Gloria feeling more than a tad frustrated.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- ANGELA:- Where are your negotiating skills?
0:21:48 > 0:21:52- GLORIA: Well, we didn't have anything to negotiate. - But you got to sharpen them up.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55It's all very well, if you've got something that you're haggling over.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59Angela and David, however, are practically in the home straight,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01after acquiring a nest of tables, a Poole Pottery jar
0:22:01 > 0:22:04and a towel rail for £85...
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Give it a bit of a clean and that could be quite nice.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11..leaving them with just over £300 to spend today.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12David and I were very lucky
0:22:12 > 0:22:15because we went into a shop that was an absolute Aladdin's cave.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17It was chock-a-block.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19I was thinking about it overnight. I thought,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22- "At least if we don't spend anything, we haven't lost anything."- Exactly!
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Don't worry, Gloria, you'll be fine.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27We're in the same first shop.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29It could be handbags at dawn, can you imagine?
0:22:29 > 0:22:33We've got Gloria and Angela, who have been friends for about 30 years,
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- fighting to get in the door first. - Consummate professionals...
0:22:37 > 0:22:40THEY SNARL AND GRUNT
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Later, they'll be heading into London for an auction in Chiswick,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46but our next stop is the Kent village of Otford.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Back in 776,
0:22:53 > 0:22:57there was a battle fought around here between King Offa's Mercians
0:22:57 > 0:22:59and the Jutes of Kent,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02but as you can, things have calmed down quite a bit since then.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- A rather comfortable bench. - It's very nice here.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Leafy place, very nice indeed.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08What do you reckon?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Where are they?- A-ha!
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- They've got a new car today. - They have.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Well, the Healey has already gone further than the Midget, at least.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19What time do you call this, then? A lie in, was it?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21We've got work to do, have we not?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23We've got two shops to go to today, haven't we?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Two shops and two things.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29A man who boasts like that - there's something wrong.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30- Shall we stop? - Let's do it.- Let's shop.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32GLORIA: We're going to the same shop, aren't we?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34DAVID: Lead the way, madam.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Gloria's been to Otford before,
0:23:35 > 0:23:39but she seems content to let Angela and David lead the way.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42- Are we sharing this shop, then? - I think we are, aren't we?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Is it first one in bags the bargains?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48GLORIA: Tell you what, there's another one down here.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Ah, I see. Something up her sleeve, eh? Cunning.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52- David Harper.- Wendy.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Hello, I'm Angela.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56- Good morning, Grace.- Hello, Grace.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Good morning, Grace.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- Angie.- And another name I don't have to remember!
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Angie? Oh, this makes my life much easier.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Hello, nice to see you.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07So an awful lot of names and an awful lot of antiques too.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12All to yourselves, though, since Gloria craftily swerved elsewhere.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16This is rather interesting, cos this actually is a charity shop.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Right.- It's a charity shop that stocks a lot of antiques.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Good morning. Lynn? The manager, I can see from your badge.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- I'm Gloria and this is Paul, who's our expert.- Hi, Paul.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- I was just saying - I love the idea this is a charity shop.- Yes, it is.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30We rely heavily on donations.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32We do buy things from auctions,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35but we have to buy very, very cheaply,
0:24:35 > 0:24:39obviously to generate as much profit as we can.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Interesting.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44I wonder what Gloria and Paul can do to swell the charity's coffers.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46- May we have a look in the cabinet? - Of course.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48There's a lovely little stick pin here.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49We actually reduced it
0:24:49 > 0:24:52because we didn't seem to have a lot of interest in it at 45,
0:24:52 > 0:24:55because it doesn't appear to be hallmarked,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- yet it seems as though... - And it's got its original box.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00That's what I like about it.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05- Oh, lovely.- Charles Packer, Regent Street retailer of London.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07A little gentleman's stick pin.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Now, albeit unmarked,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13I'd be surprised if that wasn't,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17in fairness the terminal only, not the pin,
0:25:17 > 0:25:19high-carat gold.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Legally, if it's unassayed, un-hallmarked,
0:25:22 > 0:25:24we can't describe it as gold,
0:25:24 > 0:25:28but the convention at auction is to describe it
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- as "precious yellow metal." - Could that be a little sapphire?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34It could be. I think it's got a touch of the aquamarine,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36rather than the sapphire, I believe.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38And the price is £25.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40- I adore. What do you think? - I love it.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42And the truth of the matter is,
0:25:42 > 0:25:45under no circumstances would I haggle in a charity shop.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46Not in a charity shop.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Keep it in your hand or put it back in the case?
0:25:48 > 0:25:52I don't think we're going to risk snaffling our pin.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Well played, you two. Any news from the other shop, though?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57- Lordy, what's she seen now?- Ha!
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Ah!
0:25:59 > 0:26:04- They are definitely period.- They are period, yes!- They are Art Deco.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- They're very Busby Berkeley. - Aren't they? Yes, exactly.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- And we have a pair.- Yes.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13They're about 1930, 1935.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15They're not in very good condition, though, that's the trouble.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- They're not.- She's missing the fan! Look, it's there.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21There's a lump on the top where there should be one of those.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23I know, but be forgiving, Angela.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Proving a bit of a hard sell, eh, David?
0:26:25 > 0:26:30- They're not doing it for me.- You put them about 15 feet away, squint,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33and you're thinking, "Wow, there's a pair of beauties over there."
0:26:33 > 0:26:37The closer you get to them, it all goes terribly wrong.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38But I'm thinking, online,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41these are the kind of things that people fall for.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Why should we foist them on someone?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47WHISPERING: Because that's what we do. That's our job.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Oh, dear. It's not a consumer show, Angela.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Would you like to put them in a dark corner somewhere
0:26:52 > 0:26:54while I think about it?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56- I think I know what that means.- Ha.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58That's him told, then.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Meanwhile, Paul and Gloria have got something else in mind.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Does that do anything for you?
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Hmm, erm, quite like it.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- It's this whole cupcake thing. - Yes, yes.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Ladies sitting down to tea.- Yes.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14You've got a typical folding three-stage affair, yeah?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16And would these be hand painted?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18This is why I'm drawn to it.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21It is lacquered in this rather subtle tone,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23but look at the decoration here.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Got these little finches,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27character marks, the artist has actually signed it.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- Beautiful.- It's going to date to 1920, 1930 in Japan.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34That, purely in terms of decoration,
0:27:34 > 0:27:37is an extremely uncommon object.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Very good.- £25!
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Whoa!
0:27:43 > 0:27:44It's lovely.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48- Look at that!- Actually, I would serve you tea on that, Paul.- Yep.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51- Is that an invitation?- A few fairy cakes on that, absolutely, yes.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Will I hide it just in case Angela and David come in?
0:27:54 > 0:27:57I never even thought of that. Absolutely, do.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59That's got David Harper written all over it, by the way.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- Definitely.- Normally, Paul,
0:28:01 > 0:28:05but right now he's considering a much more youthful item.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- It's a wine rack, isn't it? - It's a wine rack/table.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10It's got no great age...
0:28:10 > 0:28:11- No age at all!- No, I know.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14- I've got shoes older than that! - All right, it was made yesterday.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- If you're interested in that, that's actually mine.- Is it?- Oh, is it?
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- Ah.- When did you make it?
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Cheeky! Let's get it out of the window, shall we?
0:28:24 > 0:28:27First of all, Angela, do you like it?
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Um, in a conservatory, it would look good.
0:28:30 > 0:28:31- It needs a good clean.- Yep.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- You could varnish the top, couldn't you?- You know what?
0:28:33 > 0:28:36I think our next stop has got to be to a supermarket.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39I've got to get the rubber gloves and the cleaning stuff
0:28:39 > 0:28:41- and get at this.- Thanks to Angela,
0:28:41 > 0:28:43we're going to have the cleanest antiques ever this time.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45What's the best you can do on it?
0:28:45 > 0:28:4735.
0:28:47 > 0:28:4835.
0:28:48 > 0:28:5030 quid?
0:28:50 > 0:28:52- I'd be happy at 30. - I'd be happy at 30.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54I'd be delighted at 30.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55Do you think Angie will be at 30?
0:28:55 > 0:28:58- Angie's going to absolutely snap our hands off.- Snap it up?
0:28:58 > 0:29:01She's going to have such a good day, she's going to lock up and go home.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02- Is she?- Yeah.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Yeah, 30.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Yay!
0:29:07 > 0:29:10They're having a very nice time - quite the double act, in fact.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13- Thank you very much.- Thanks very much indeed, Angie. Great pleasure.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15Thank you, nice to see you.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18Down the street, Gloria could be about to turn over a new leaf.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21You may think I'm mad,
0:29:21 > 0:29:22but I love this lectern.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25I think I'm a bit bonded to a lectern anyway,
0:29:25 > 0:29:28because we do so many talks from a lectern,
0:29:28 > 0:29:31but I think... I mean, that's got a Bible on it at the moment,
0:29:31 > 0:29:33but there's a recipe book here.
0:29:33 > 0:29:34Imagine, you could use it in your kitchen
0:29:34 > 0:29:36if you had a big enough kitchen.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39- I'd love the kitchen big enough for this!- I know.- Quite, Paul.
0:29:39 > 0:29:40Look at the base of it, look.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43- Strange structure. It's almost like a rocket.- Yeah.
0:29:43 > 0:29:44It's a Victorian piece,
0:29:44 > 0:29:46it's in a blondish oak.
0:29:46 > 0:29:50If it were desperately dark, I'd maybe have an issue with that.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53It's actually on a sale price here - was 125.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57- Fair.- It's now 70, which is a real good sale reduction.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00- Tempting me now!- How do you think we would do with that at auction?
0:30:00 > 0:30:03Um, do you know?
0:30:03 > 0:30:05I could estimate that north of £80.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07It's going to be the only one in auction.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09It's in fantastic condition.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12- It's all right, isn't it? - So can we have it?
0:30:12 > 0:30:13I think we must have it!
0:30:13 > 0:30:17So with no haggling required, those three items will cost £120.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21- Isn't that great?- It feels good.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25Suddenly, Gloria and Paul have almost all they need
0:30:25 > 0:30:26for the auction.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Meanwhile, the others are enjoying life back on the road.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34David's quite a classic car enthusiast
0:30:34 > 0:30:37and Angela, of course, was on that motoring programme.
0:30:37 > 0:30:38What's it called again?
0:30:38 > 0:30:40"TOP GEAR" THEME
0:30:40 > 0:30:44I literally drove everything from Harley Davidson motorbikes
0:30:44 > 0:30:47to an articulated lorry and everything and anything
0:30:47 > 0:30:50you can imagine in between, including 1910 vintage cars.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52Have they had you on Top Gear?
0:30:52 > 0:30:55No, I don't think they will because I don't think Mr Clarkson
0:30:55 > 0:30:59- likes admitting that I was actually the first presenter!- Really?
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Those two are taking the relatively short road from Otford
0:31:02 > 0:31:04to the village of Brasted.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07- How about that, then, David? - It's ideal.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09And an even shorter walk.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12- Hello, I'm Angela. - How do you do? I'm Hugh.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14- Hello, Hugh. - Hello, Hugh, David Harper.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16My gosh, this is a real antiques shop.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21Yes, there are several fine things to be found in here.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25Everywhere you look! Look at that mirror.
0:31:25 > 0:31:26Almost all of it is older
0:31:26 > 0:31:29and perhaps better quality than they've purchased so far.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33- That is a fab, fab table. - It is, yep.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36They have money to spend as well, close to £300.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39- What do you think of its shape and design.- It's Arts and Crafts.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40Definitely.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42It's light, it's pewter.
0:31:42 > 0:31:43I love the shape.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46- Isn't it interesting?- It's a good shape. What do you think?
0:31:46 > 0:31:48It's an interesting piece.
0:31:48 > 0:31:49How heavy is it? Can I have a feel?
0:31:49 > 0:31:52Yeah. It's off-centre in the middle.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Oh, it is very wonky-wonky.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56Very winky-wonky, but maybe it's supposed to be,
0:31:56 > 0:31:57because how would you...
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Because it is Arts and Crafts...
0:31:59 > 0:32:02- Hand-done.- ..it's totally hand-done. - How much do you think at auction?
0:32:02 > 0:32:0350-90 at auction.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- They want 88 for it.- 88, OK.
0:32:08 > 0:32:09Meanwhile, back in Otford,
0:32:09 > 0:32:12Gloria and Paul are shopping around.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14Where do you want to start?
0:32:14 > 0:32:16You know, I am very systematic.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19Obsessively, compulsively so. I'm going to start at the door
0:32:19 > 0:32:21- and we're going to have a wee mooch.- Right!
0:32:21 > 0:32:22Familiar territory,
0:32:22 > 0:32:24but apart from the table the others grabbed earlier,
0:32:24 > 0:32:26it should all be in order.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29Paul, I found something to keep you in check.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32I might just keep this by my side.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34They seem a bit more relaxed
0:32:34 > 0:32:36now that they've got a few things in the old bag.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38I actually was awake last night through the night,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41thinking this'll be the first time in this programme
0:32:41 > 0:32:44when I'll go to auction and we've only got one small item,
0:32:44 > 0:32:48but today I feel happy, cos we've found something we like.
0:32:48 > 0:32:49Which is good.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Even better is that Gloria's now doing more of the finding.
0:32:53 > 0:32:57I must say, Wendy, I absolutely love this sewing box.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59- Look at it - it's in beautiful condition.- Lovely condition, yes.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Just imagine all the threads and everything in there.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05Paul, what do you think of this? I've fallen in love with this sowing box.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07I walked past this previously.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09It's very me, I adore it.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11I shouldn't say that before we start!
0:33:11 > 0:33:14Have you seen the condition of it? Look.
0:33:14 > 0:33:15It's not sat in front of a window.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17The colour is strong,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20- the figure's all there. - The ticket price is 245.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22I'll be absolutely honest with you upfront,
0:33:22 > 0:33:25we haven't got that much money left to play with.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27I think I know what she will accept for it,
0:33:27 > 0:33:30- if you'd like me to tell you? - Oh, tenterhooks!
0:33:30 > 0:33:33She will take 180.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38Now, see if I had my positive auctioneer's hat on,
0:33:38 > 0:33:40I'd say that's worth 250.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45- At 250, we would make a little profit on that.- We would.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47Could we take chance, do you think?
0:33:48 > 0:33:53Looking at your face, I think you're up for a bit of a punt, are you not?
0:33:53 > 0:33:55You know you've got a sale here, don't you?
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Do me one last favour.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02Go and ask and say, "They really want it, but it's 170."
0:34:02 > 0:34:04That's not a big ask, another tenner.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09I should say no, but I'll try.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12Imagine if it came down to the last tenner
0:34:12 > 0:34:14and we won it over that. You'd go,
0:34:14 > 0:34:16"Whoa!"
0:34:16 > 0:34:19- OK...- Wendy, she's come back.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Are you smiling, Wendy, widely?
0:34:21 > 0:34:22Half smiling.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25- Half smiling?- How about 175? - A fiver, isn't it?
0:34:25 > 0:34:28How about we shake Wendy's hand?
0:34:28 > 0:34:29Magic!
0:34:29 > 0:34:32- Thank you. - You're a smoother talker, Wendy.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Come here, you. Come here a minute.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- I've got to give you a kiss for that one.- But you discovered it, Gloria.
0:34:37 > 0:34:41Anyway, now Angela's finally found a bit of quality.
0:34:41 > 0:34:42Watch out.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44What do you think...
0:34:44 > 0:34:46- of this?- Oh, my gosh.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49- It's a little Mappin & Webb...- Oh!
0:34:49 > 0:34:52It's marked on the bottom, silver.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56- ..champagne flute.- Oh, my gosh.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58I like that.
0:34:58 > 0:34:59Can I have a look at the hallmarks,
0:34:59 > 0:35:02let me find the hallmarks on this thing.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05Here we are, up here. Look at how crisp they are!
0:35:05 > 0:35:08- We've got a mark for Sheffield.- Yeah.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12The lion passant and then the T for 1934.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16- 1934.- So that is kind of mid-period Art Deco, isn't it?- Yes.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20One solid-silver champagne glass.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23- It's not a glass, what do you call it?- A flute!
0:35:23 > 0:35:24Is it a flute, I don't know!
0:35:25 > 0:35:27I don't know, it's for drinking champagne.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29It's for drinking champagne.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32- My tipple, darling. - It's a coupe, actually.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35The ticket price is £85, but they can certainly afford it.
0:35:35 > 0:35:39We could make a bit of money on it or we might lose heavily on it.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43But you know what? I think it's one of those things that is so beautiful
0:35:43 > 0:35:44that if we were to put it in auction,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47whoever bought it would be buying something so beautiful
0:35:47 > 0:35:50and passing it on to someone else as a gift,
0:35:50 > 0:35:53how nice to think that we made that possible for them.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Aw, you're too nice.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56- Now, Hugh.- Yes.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00Everybody, surely, must own a Mappin & Webb solid silver champagne coupe.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03I don't think they do. I think they're reasonably rare.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05They're very common, aren't they, Angela?
0:36:05 > 0:36:06All over the place, darling.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08- Yes.- What kind of money can we do that for?
0:36:09 > 0:36:1173.
0:36:11 > 0:36:12No!
0:36:12 > 0:36:16- Can we make it a nice...? I like noughts.- So do I.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19- What are you thinking, 60? - At the most.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23- Could you do 60?- No, but I tell you what...- That was a quick answer!
0:36:23 > 0:36:26That's right, but I tell you what, we'll do 70 for you.
0:36:26 > 0:36:3170. Do you pay £70 for a solid-silver Mappin & Webb champagne coupe?
0:36:32 > 0:36:35- I think yes. - It's very you, Angela Rippon.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38I think we're going to have to have it, aren't we?
0:36:38 > 0:36:39- Can we take it that it's sold? - It is!
0:36:39 > 0:36:42- Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:36:42 > 0:36:43Cheers, everyone.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45There's 80.
0:36:45 > 0:36:46- Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:36:48 > 0:36:52- That means there's £10 coming back to me.- Yes!- Sorry, sorry!
0:36:52 > 0:36:55Thank you. A bit of a pause there, I didn't like it.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58So their shopping's now complete.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00But what about their rivals,
0:37:00 > 0:37:03storming towards the ramparts of Leeds Castle?
0:37:04 > 0:37:07Is this our lucky day, or what?
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Oh, my goodness, talk about a feel-good factor.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13- There's the castle.- What a prospect.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16The shopping's done too, and they're ready to explore.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19The stonework on the castle looks really clean, doesn't it?
0:37:19 > 0:37:22- Joyous, isn't it?- Beautiful. - Could be a movie set.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25There's a been castle on this site, definitely in Kent,
0:37:25 > 0:37:29despite its somewhat confusing name, for over 900 years.
0:37:29 > 0:37:30Thank you very much.
0:37:30 > 0:37:34Gloria's come to learn more about the kings and queens
0:37:34 > 0:37:35who spent time here.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38- Hello.- Hello, there.- Are you Tori?
0:37:38 > 0:37:42- I am Tori.- The castle looks magnificent on this gorgeous day.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Beautiful, really beautiful.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47Once described as the loveliest castle in the world,
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Leeds has been associated with the monarchy
0:37:49 > 0:37:53since the medieval Queen Eleanor of Castile.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Here we are in the beautiful courtyard.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59- Beautiful.- I suppose you're wondering why it's called Leeds Castle.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02- Absolutely.- Well, it's named after the little village of Leeds,
0:38:02 > 0:38:05which is just here on the outskirts of the castle,
0:38:05 > 0:38:07and not after the Leeds in Yorkshire.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11It was built in about 1119 by a Norman soldier
0:38:11 > 0:38:15and then passed in the 12th century into royal ownership.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18How many kings would have lived here over the years?
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Gosh, I would have to use quite a lot of fingers to count that up.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24It's easier if I say how many queens there were -
0:38:24 > 0:38:28six queens that we know resided here or visited here
0:38:28 > 0:38:32during 300 years of occupation from about the 1270s,
0:38:32 > 0:38:35and that takes us right up to Henry VIII.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37In the early 16th century,
0:38:37 > 0:38:40King Henry transformed the Norman stronghold
0:38:40 > 0:38:43into a Tudor palace for the use of his first wife,
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Catherine of Aragon.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47On one visit in 1520,
0:38:47 > 0:38:485,000 people stayed here
0:38:48 > 0:38:52en route to the famous Field of the Cloth of Gold
0:38:52 > 0:38:55for a meeting with the French king in Calais.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59The Maiden's Tower was built to house the queen's maids of honour
0:38:59 > 0:39:03and one of those was Henry's next wife, Anne Boleyn.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06There's no doubt about the history the place has seen,
0:39:06 > 0:39:09but appearances can be a bit deceptive.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13It says this particular fireplace was installed in Henry VIII's time.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17You're right, it does contain Catherine of Aragon's motifs
0:39:17 > 0:39:23here, the dragon motif and her coat of arms, and over here we have a
0:39:23 > 0:39:27tiny little castle motif, which is very sweet, and Tudor rose.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30So although it may not have been in this location,
0:39:30 > 0:39:34this room looks very medieval, but in fact it dates to 1927...
0:39:34 > 0:39:36- No?- ..when Lady Bailey came in
0:39:36 > 0:39:39and did a wholesale renovation of the place.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45Lady Bailey was an American heiress who bought the castle in 1925
0:39:45 > 0:39:48and set about creating her own version of history.
0:39:48 > 0:39:49HE CHUCKLES
0:39:49 > 0:39:51A sort of medieval meets Art Deco,
0:39:51 > 0:39:55adding several 20th-century comforts including up-to-date plumbing.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59- That's amazing, isn't it? - No planning consent, I suspect!
0:39:59 > 0:40:02- No.- Well, no, not such strict rules...
0:40:02 > 0:40:05All these beams would be from late 1920s?
0:40:05 > 0:40:07They are, and they're carved by Venetian craftsman
0:40:07 > 0:40:10and they're hollow, so you can run cabling through them,
0:40:10 > 0:40:12so it's all very, very practical.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16The last queen of the castle even installed
0:40:16 > 0:40:18a dance floor in Henry VIII's banqueting hall,
0:40:18 > 0:40:22as well as preserving the treasures of previous rulers.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Over here we have a couple of objects relating to
0:40:24 > 0:40:26two of Henry VIII's wives.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30We have here a missal said to belong to Catherine of Aragon.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31Now, what exactly is a missal?
0:40:31 > 0:40:35A missal is a book that records all the liturgical texts
0:40:35 > 0:40:38and sermons for the religious year.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41It's got this leather-panelled binding,
0:40:41 > 0:40:44and you can see the stamped portraits of the saints there.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Then if you have a look on the inside, you can see...
0:40:48 > 0:40:49it's got a very beautiful,
0:40:49 > 0:40:52albeit rather damaged, frontispiece there.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56- This book dates to 1527. - Beautifully done.
0:40:56 > 0:40:57It is, it's very crisp.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00Apart from the edges, the actual text is very crisp.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03And the colour, look at the red, the colour's actually
0:41:03 > 0:41:07- very vibrant, isn't it?- Yes. - Rubricated text.- Yes, that's it!
0:41:07 > 0:41:09- You know the words.- And the box?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Well, this box is Anne Boleyn's missal box,
0:41:11 > 0:41:15and of course she was the second wife of Henry VIII.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Slightly less fortunate, I think, than his first wife.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21We have here this beautiful little box. It was designed
0:41:21 > 0:41:24for carrying a very small version of the missal that we've just seen.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27- A VERY small version.- Very small.
0:41:27 > 0:41:31And it includes these hooks here that you can see, which would be
0:41:31 > 0:41:35used to tie ribbon so that you would carry it around on your waist.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39It's a wooden construction and has been upholstered in brown velvet.
0:41:39 > 0:41:44It has these iron bindings, which at some later point have been gilded.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47So originally it would have been a lot plainer than you see today.
0:41:47 > 0:41:51We could have done with that box to take to our auction, couldn't we?
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Yes, I think it's not for sale.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57The thing is, they do do B&B here, so you can check in.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59THEY LAUGH
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Thank you so much. - It's a pleasure to have you here,
0:42:02 > 0:42:04- and good luck with the auction. - Thanks.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07Now, I'm not sure many of their purchases would get
0:42:07 > 0:42:10house room in a castle, but let's have a butcher's anyway.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12- Shall we go for it?- Let's go for it.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15- As long as I don't break anything that's on it.- Da-da!
0:42:15 > 0:42:19Well, I see there's a towel rail, rather different.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24- Very nice ginger jar.- Portmeirion? - No, it's Poole Pottery.
0:42:24 > 0:42:30Table, which will take... Is it 10 or 12 bottles of wine underneath?
0:42:30 > 0:42:34- And classic... Why are you laughing? - What are you laughing at?!
0:42:35 > 0:42:38- And classic G Plan furniture. - What are you laughing at?!
0:42:38 > 0:42:43- I'm not mad on that. - Tell me what you paid for this?
0:42:43 > 0:42:45- 50. - You were robbed.
0:42:45 > 0:42:4750 pence?!
0:42:47 > 0:42:49- 50 Great British pounds. - How much did you...?
0:42:49 > 0:42:51HIS VOICE GOES HOARSE
0:42:51 > 0:42:53Sorry, was that German he was speaking?
0:42:53 > 0:42:55That's the piece.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58It is the piece, this is our favourite piece, isn't it?
0:42:58 > 0:43:00GLORIA: This is beautiful, I love that.
0:43:00 > 0:43:05That is Mappin & Webb, 1934, solid-silver champagne coupe.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09That's a champagne coupe? The decadence of it!
0:43:09 > 0:43:13- I thought it was Holy Communion! - With champagne?
0:43:13 > 0:43:16But that's our favourite piece, I think we agree.
0:43:16 > 0:43:21- In fairness, it's not got a lot of competition.- Oh, thanks(!)
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Well, come on, then, shall we be as impressed?
0:43:26 > 0:43:30Yeah, follow that, you two, I'm sure Angela and David won't hold back.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34Got a Victorian lady's sewing table.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36We looked at that in one of the shops, and I said...
0:43:36 > 0:43:38- We did.- ..what a very pretty piece of furniture,
0:43:38 > 0:43:40but it'll never sell for that at auction.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43What did we say? We thought it might sell for about £50.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Oh, look, they've been to a cafe and had a cup of coffee
0:43:46 > 0:43:48and forgot to take the mug back.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51It just shows how little you know about Scottish pottery.
0:43:51 > 0:43:55- David Harper knows.- I actually don't, is it Wemyss?- Wemyss Ware.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59The cat makers? Give me a Wemyss cat any day!
0:43:59 > 0:44:02The cake stand is very trendy...
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Actually, it's got beautiful hand-painting on it.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07- Character marks...- Yeah, Japanese.
0:44:07 > 0:44:10- I think that's got something going on there.- Potential.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13And the converted birdbath or something?
0:44:13 > 0:44:16It's a bird house, not a birdbath.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20I'd hang peanut things off the side of that
0:44:20 > 0:44:23and put it out in the garden. It would look lovely in my garden.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26- Oh, how little you know, Miss Rippon. - Is it a pulpit?
0:44:26 > 0:44:30- Lectern. - You've stood at many of those.
0:44:30 > 0:44:35- I've stood at many in my life, none quite like that.- OK, interesting.
0:44:35 > 0:44:37- So what's in the little box? - This is rather sweet.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41- A little Victorian stick pin. - Oh, that's pretty.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43High-carat wishbone-form terminal,
0:44:43 > 0:44:46set with an aquamarine-coloured stone in what...
0:44:46 > 0:44:49"Made by Charles Packer and Co, Regent Street."
0:44:49 > 0:44:52Run through some figures then, so, 40 on the table.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55George IV sewing table...175.
0:44:55 > 0:44:58HE SPLUTTERS
0:44:59 > 0:45:04- We've nailed this one. - 50 quid! 50 quid!
0:45:04 > 0:45:08The auction's going to be a riot. It's going to be out of this world.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11- It's going to be brill. - You can't call this.
0:45:11 > 0:45:15We hardly need to inquire what they really thought after that lot.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19Seriously, the two tables, many an auctioneer would just reject them.
0:45:19 > 0:45:23"We don't do that, there's a charity shop nearby that does!"
0:45:23 > 0:45:25I think they were laughing at ours
0:45:25 > 0:45:27because everything we've got is very saleable.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29And that's the line I'm sticking to.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32- Nothing you'd swap, is there?- No. Would you?
0:45:32 > 0:45:34Never in a million years!
0:45:34 > 0:45:39- I think we'll do all right, I really do.- Exciting.- You've chosen well.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41And so have you. Good team!
0:45:41 > 0:45:43What a team!
0:45:43 > 0:45:45Nothing left to chance, though.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48Let's see if this is going to work, I hope it is.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51- Look, that muck's coming off there. - Ah-ha.
0:45:51 > 0:45:55- Look at you, you're a domestic goddess, you really are.- I know.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58- What shall I do, the towel rail? - You have a go at that.
0:45:58 > 0:46:02A few minutes of preparation make all the difference to a sale.
0:46:02 > 0:46:06Going to lend us a hand, darling? No.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Oh, look, it's coming up terrific.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11We could go on one of those shows where you go into people's homes,
0:46:11 > 0:46:12couldn't we?
0:46:12 > 0:46:16We've got all the kit, haven't we? We could top-to-toe a house.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19There's a show - Clean The Nation With Angela Rippon.
0:46:19 > 0:46:20ANGELA LAUGHS
0:46:20 > 0:46:22A must see.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24After starting out in Sussex,
0:46:24 > 0:46:25at Lewes, our celebrities
0:46:25 > 0:46:27and experts have motored into London
0:46:27 > 0:46:28for an auction in Chiswick.
0:46:28 > 0:46:32Well, Gloria, you and I have worked together for many years,
0:46:32 > 0:46:34but I think this time I'm going to get the better of you.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37I haven't forgiven you yet for calling
0:46:37 > 0:46:39my lovely lectern a bird table. THEY LAUGH
0:46:39 > 0:46:42I think they might be taking this a bit too seriously.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45And there are the boys. Hi!
0:46:45 > 0:46:50- How are you doing, Gloria? - Are you not even mobile today?
0:46:50 > 0:46:53- Lovely to see you. Are we raring to go?- I think we are.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56I think we are, I'm feeling quite confident.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59We're going to win, so there we go.
0:46:59 > 0:47:03They have an auction every week here, a very big range too,
0:47:03 > 0:47:07so hopefully almost all our purchases will fit right in.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11I wonder what auctioneer Matt Caddick rates most highly.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13Pretty keen on the William IV work table, it's a good, old-fashioned
0:47:13 > 0:47:16antique and a very clean example, so that should do OK.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19The Poole Pottery - this is a pretty boring pattern, in my opinion.
0:47:19 > 0:47:23Transfer decorated. Even to achieve the estimate, it might struggle.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26I think it's going to be a fight between the Poole Pottery
0:47:26 > 0:47:29and the cake stand as to what's going to make the least money.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32Practically and decoratively they're just both a bit lacklustre.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36Angela and David bought five auction lots for a total of just £185,
0:47:36 > 0:47:42while Gloria and Paul spent £333 on their five lots.
0:47:42 > 0:47:46- Now, enter the gladiators. - Ooh, I say, posh seats as well.
0:47:46 > 0:47:49- Could you not have got us a better seat, Angela?- I don't think so, dear.
0:47:49 > 0:47:53- We needed your influence, Gloria. - Too posh for us, I think!
0:47:54 > 0:47:57Yeah, you're lucky they let you in.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00And they're lucky they let their nest of tables in.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03I'm going to admit to you now, I LOVE the nest of tables,
0:48:03 > 0:48:05and if I was allowed to bid I would buy them.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09Hang on, I'm confused - what tactic is Gloria playing?
0:48:09 > 0:48:13I'm not allowed to buy today, otherwise I would buy them.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16She's got her competitive face on.
0:48:16 > 0:48:21- And is there £50 to start me?- Got to be.- Nest of tables at £50, start me.
0:48:21 > 0:48:24- Go on.- £40. Shall we start at 20 and see where we go?
0:48:24 > 0:48:28- They're starting at 20!- 20...
0:48:28 > 0:48:31- Go on.- Blood from a stone, at £20 I'm bid.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34Oh, miraculous!
0:48:34 > 0:48:38For £20 only, a maiden bid, down in the dumps at £20,
0:48:38 > 0:48:40I can't ask any more times.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43- Give it another five minutes! - All done?
0:48:43 > 0:48:45- It's a bargain. - So much for that plan.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49- Obviously in London they have no style.- Exactly.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51It's just the wrong room.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54I think someone paid £20 too much for them, frankly!
0:48:54 > 0:48:58Next it's Gloria and Paul's wee Scottish pot.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02We paid 38 quid for it and they've only put it down at 15 to 20!
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Well, some would call that a come-hither estimate,
0:49:04 > 0:49:05a come-buy-me estimate.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07A come-hither estimate?
0:49:07 > 0:49:10Start me at £10, £10 for the Wemyss?
0:49:10 > 0:49:12I'll let you catch me up, start me.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15£10 I'm bid, we're off at 10, and 12 I'll take.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18You do know that the Queen Mum collects this pottery?
0:49:18 > 0:49:19She's not here today, though.
0:49:19 > 0:49:20LAUGHTER
0:49:20 > 0:49:2312, you've done enough, £12 I'm bid.
0:49:23 > 0:49:27At £12... 14, 16, 18...
0:49:27 > 0:49:29- Oh, that's got it away. - At £20...
0:49:29 > 0:49:32Injecting a bit of class has done the job,
0:49:32 > 0:49:34£20 on the back wall then...
0:49:34 > 0:49:36We finished? 20...
0:49:36 > 0:49:39- It's worth more than that, come on.- £20.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43Well, you just doubled the value, I can't believe it.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46Chiswick seemed less than impressed, I'd say.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49I just think £20 for a tooth mug is over the top.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51- Well, it is. - A very nice tooth mug though.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53It depends on your teeth, you see.
0:49:53 > 0:49:55Your teeth would have looked good in that mug.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Now for Angela's jar.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02For ginger, or anything you fancy, really.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05Moderately estimated, start me at £20 for it.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07The Poole Pottery, £20 for it.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09I think it was collected by the King of Siam.
0:50:09 > 0:50:12King of Siam collected this, there you go.
0:50:12 > 0:50:15£10 for it, give me £10, start me at 10.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18You're going to make me really work - £5 for it.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20Oh, gosh.
0:50:20 > 0:50:26- £5, start me.- Go on.- I'm going to go up in ones now. £5, and 6 I'll take.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28£5 only.
0:50:28 > 0:50:29ANGELA GASPS
0:50:29 > 0:50:31That's a serious bargain.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33We're going to sell it, all done, for five.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36Oh, I am so sorry about that.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38- Are you? - Oh, I really am(!)
0:50:40 > 0:50:42The auctioneer had that one right.
0:50:44 > 0:50:48- Now up comes the absolutely delicious lectern.- Bird table.- Bird...
0:50:48 > 0:50:50Sorry, I did get that wrong.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54- I'm going to strangle both of you on the spot.- I think she means it.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58- Well, at least this thing's antique. - £50 to start me.- PLEASE, somebody.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01£40 for it?
0:51:01 > 0:51:03It's going in the wrong direction, Gloria.
0:51:03 > 0:51:07- It is, I'm very disappointed. - Start me at £10.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09Now you're being really mean.
0:51:09 > 0:51:13- Now I'm bid... You've got a tenner.- That's good wood.
0:51:13 > 0:51:17Cheaper than lumpwood for your fire at £10. Start me at 12 now.
0:51:17 > 0:51:20- At £12 I'm bid. - ANGELA:- £12, there we are.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23Saying no, unbelievably.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26At £12... In the room then at £12, I can't believe it.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29We'll sell it at £12, shall we? £12.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31- No! - Excellent news.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33We was robbed.
0:51:33 > 0:51:37Not quite free speech for some lucky lecturer - huh! - but close.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39When I arrived here today I loved you.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42Now I'm beginning to think you're really mean at heart.
0:51:42 > 0:51:45- You're getting to the real me, Gloria, yeah.- Oh.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47Next, this little treasure from Angela
0:51:47 > 0:51:49and David's bathroom collection.
0:51:49 > 0:51:53£10, start me. For the towel rail at £10.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Ten, thank you.
0:51:55 > 0:52:00- 14? 16, 18... - GLORIA: 16! ANGELA:- Excuse me? Yes?
0:52:00 > 0:52:03At £20, in the red chair at 20, is there any more now?
0:52:03 > 0:52:05Double bubble.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08If you knew how much time... She's been at it!
0:52:08 > 0:52:11If you knew how long I spent cleaning that
0:52:11 > 0:52:14so that it looks absolutely beautiful, you would know
0:52:14 > 0:52:18it's worth every penny of whatever you're prepared to pay for it.
0:52:18 > 0:52:19£100.
0:52:19 > 0:52:23So just to clarify, the patina's gone from the Deco period...
0:52:23 > 0:52:27- £22 is bid.- Oh, that's more like it.- 24...
0:52:27 > 0:52:34- In the red chair at 24.- That's good. - If only it was left original.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37Are we done and out, then? 24, it's stylish enough and goes.
0:52:37 > 0:52:41Oh, well done, fabulous. First profit, yeah.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Yes, dreams come true,
0:52:43 > 0:52:47but then, Angela and David did only spend half their cash.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49Now for Gloria and Paul's precious yellow metal pin.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53Start me at £20 for it. £20 for it.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59£10 for it. 10 I'm bid,
0:52:59 > 0:53:0212, 14, 16...18, 20...
0:53:02 > 0:53:05£20, the lady's bid at 20.
0:53:05 > 0:53:11We're going to sell it. All done for 20, 22? 24...
0:53:11 > 0:53:14Shake of the head. £24 then, still in the stripes.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17We're going to sell it... £24.
0:53:17 > 0:53:21- One below.- A Regent Street pin for a very good price.
0:53:22 > 0:53:27Who'd like a shiny wine table of dubious vintage?
0:53:27 > 0:53:30What part of ANTIQUES Road Trip did you fail to get
0:53:30 > 0:53:31when you bought this?
0:53:31 > 0:53:35- Future.- You've got some stiff competition, I'm bid already at £10.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37There you go, £10.
0:53:37 > 0:53:4112 I'll take. For this wine table, then, at £10.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45- ANGELA:- It's very nice. I cleaned it. I cleaned it!
0:53:45 > 0:53:46LOUD: Cleaned it!
0:53:46 > 0:53:50For £10... No-one drinks any more, it's a sad age, I know, it's crazy.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52Are they all teetotallers?
0:53:52 > 0:53:55- They drink it too fast, there's no need to store it. £10...- Oh, go on.
0:53:55 > 0:53:59No-one else going to come in? We've got to sell it. £10.
0:53:59 > 0:54:03After she put all that hard work in too(!)
0:54:03 > 0:54:06Will Gloria and Paul's cake stand fare any better?
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Edwardian, folding cake stand, Japanese lacquer decoration...
0:54:09 > 0:54:11He's not liking it. Telling the truth.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13- Start me at...- It's actually signed.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15- It's Japanese decorated. - Signed by the birds?
0:54:15 > 0:54:17- I could clean it for you.- Hang on.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19- Oh, no, here we go. - No, excuse me.
0:54:19 > 0:54:21It is signed, specially signed.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24Got Japanese decoration on and it does fold flat.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26Yeah, that's the way it goes. See?
0:54:26 > 0:54:27It's beautiful.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30I did mean to bring cakes for you all to eat and I forgot. I'm so sorry.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Oh, that would have been lovely.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34So, the much-talked-about signed cake stand.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Start me £30 for it.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40£30 for it. Vintage tea parties are all the rage. £20 for it.
0:54:40 > 0:54:41- £30.- What?
0:54:41 > 0:54:43On the internet? Good heavens above.
0:54:43 > 0:54:44Two I'll take.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48- They've made a profit. - On the internet?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50A maiden bid from the World wide Web.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53- At £30.- Yes.- All done and out. 30.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55- Profit.- Well done. Profit.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Another profit. Good work, team.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Time for Angela's champagne moment.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02- It is.- This is our big, big spend.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04It's our big spend and whoever gets it...
0:55:05 > 0:55:08it'll bring real pleasure to their lives, I think.
0:55:08 > 0:55:11- That will make me happy.- It will. It'll make me happy.- Yeah.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13- It may not make a profit but it'll make us happy.- Yeah.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15We'll be happy because you're happy.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18- If only she meant it. - What's it worth? Is it worth £30?
0:55:18 > 0:55:20Of course it is.
0:55:20 > 0:55:21£30 I'm bid.
0:55:21 > 0:55:22It's worth at least £30.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24At £30. 32 I'll take.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26- 32.- You're off.
0:55:26 > 0:55:2735. 38...
0:55:27 > 0:55:29There, you see?
0:55:29 > 0:55:31- ..40. 2. - Excuse me.
0:55:31 > 0:55:32£42. 45.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34- Go on.- Yes.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36- £45 in the doorway. - It's worth a bit more.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39- Go on!- Are we done, then? For £45. - Think of the pleasure.
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Worth more than that!
0:55:40 > 0:55:42All out at £45. All done. And it sells.
0:55:42 > 0:55:43All that silver?!
0:55:43 > 0:55:45- 48.- 48 online. That's more like it.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48- Shaking your head? - No, don't shake your head.- At £48.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51The internet's come in at £48. We're done.
0:55:51 > 0:55:55Angela's still slightly ahead though with just one big lot to go -
0:55:55 > 0:55:57Gloria's greatest gamble.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59The sewing table will decide it.
0:55:59 > 0:56:00What's your bet, then?
0:56:00 > 0:56:02Thank the Lord we didn't spend a whole
0:56:02 > 0:56:04load of money on Victorian brown furniture.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06Oh, wait a minute...
0:56:06 > 0:56:08It's the sort of thing which,
0:56:08 > 0:56:12perhaps at a different auction with a different group of people...
0:56:12 > 0:56:14- Yeah, about 15 years ago. - ..50 years ago...- Yeah.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17- ..would've done REALLY, really well.- They are so mean.
0:56:17 > 0:56:18They're not the price they used to be.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20A bid at £90 to help me on the book.
0:56:20 > 0:56:21They've got 90 quid.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24One, two, three bids. And I'll take 100 in the room now.
0:56:24 > 0:56:25£90 here with me.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27- 90.- Oh...
0:56:27 > 0:56:28On the book at £90.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31Is that it? It's such a shame, isn't it? At £90.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33- They don't make old money at 90. - It's beautiful.
0:56:33 > 0:56:35Going to sell at 90. All done.
0:56:35 > 0:56:36- 90.- Too soon!
0:56:36 > 0:56:39- Oh...- £90.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41Oh, it always was a tad optimistic.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44- Ready? One, two, three. - BOTH: Told you so.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48Oh, and they're supposed to be friends!
0:56:48 > 0:56:49Just think of the fun they'd have had
0:56:49 > 0:56:51if they'd actually made some money.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53Now, Gloria and Paul began with £400
0:56:53 > 0:56:55and after paying auction costs,
0:56:55 > 0:56:58made a loss of £188.68,
0:56:58 > 0:56:59leaving them with...
0:57:02 > 0:57:06Whilst Angela and David, who also started out with £400, made,
0:57:06 > 0:57:12after paying auction costs, a slightly smaller loss of £97.26.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14So they are today's winners with...
0:57:16 > 0:57:21- Well...- Well, into the sunshine. - ..that was... That was hot.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24- It was hot but it was GREAT! - It was great.- I loved it.
0:57:24 > 0:57:25It was good fun, wasn't it?
0:57:25 > 0:57:27It was great fun. I really have enjoyed it.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28- And I love Paul. - Aw!
0:57:28 > 0:57:31- Do you?- I do.- How much do you think you'd get for him, then?
0:57:31 > 0:57:34I seriously thought of putting him up for auction.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37- Why not?- Cos the make-up girl was at him all the time.- Was she?- She was.
0:57:37 > 0:57:38Well, I tell you what,
0:57:38 > 0:57:41I don't know how we can have so much fun by losing so much money.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43- So deal us the figures, then. - OK, here we go.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46- We've done incredibly well... - Yes.- ..by losing.
0:57:46 > 0:57:49The B team, over here, have lost almost £200.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51- Well done. - Hey!
0:57:51 > 0:57:53Seriously. Seriously, well done.
0:57:53 > 0:57:59- Well done.- And we have actually won by losing almost £100!
0:57:59 > 0:58:00THEY CHEER GLORIA: Very good.
0:58:00 > 0:58:03- It's been the most wonderful journey. Angela...- Oh, we've had fun.
0:58:03 > 0:58:04..thank you.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06- Thank you so much.- Very good.
0:58:06 > 0:58:07Lovely working with you.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10- Really.- I'm going to recommend you two to everybody.
0:58:10 > 0:58:13Really? You can't hire us out, you know.
0:58:13 > 0:58:16- You never know.- But what are you going to recommend them for?
0:58:16 > 0:58:20I'm going to have a new programme called Who Was The Best Loser?.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23We'd be good at that. We're going to celebrate now.
0:58:23 > 0:58:24- Bye.- Bye.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26- GLORIA: I've got an idea, actually. - What's that?
0:58:26 > 0:58:30Why don't we just do the programme again and again, until we win.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32- Until we make money. - Now, there's a thought.
0:58:32 > 0:58:35You'd be welcome back any time.