VO: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts...

I don't know what to do.

VO: ..with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal: to scour Britain for antiques.

What a little diamond.

VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.

Back in the game.

Charlie!

VO: There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Oh!

VO: So, will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?

Oh!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah.

VO: It's the final leg of the Road Trip for debonair David Harper and the queen of the auction room, Anita Manning.

(DAVID LAUGHS) DAVID: We are in your neck of the woods.

ANITA: We are in my neck of the woods.

DAVID: Good buying venues in these parts, Anita Manning?

ANITA: Oh yeah.

VO: We are indeed just outside Glasgow.

It's been a fun old Road Trip.

Time for a bit of nostalgic reflection, perhaps.

Well, it's been a lark, it's been a great lark.

ANITA: Yep, yep and it has been so much fun and we've seen wonderful places.

DAVID: We have, yeah.

I will miss you, Anita, it has been a really great adventure.

VO: David has a bit of a soft spot for his travel companion.

But our bonny auctioneer, Anita Manning, has already set her sights on someone else.

I quite fancy him.

VO: Ha!

David Harper has his heart set firmly on winning the final auction.

But could he be about to fall for the wrong thing?

Oh John, here I am, looking at a pair of oriental vases.

I can sense myself getting into all sorts of trouble here.

VO: Our lovestruck antiquers have been steadily eating up the miles north in their sturdy little 1965 Morris Minor convertible.

And our little car has just behaved like a dream.

She has been a little buzzer, hasn't she?

I am going to miss her, I might even miss you.

VO: Ah, so sweet.

Our lovable duo started this trip with £200 each.

On this final stretch, David has £429.84 to spend.

VO: Anita, however, has soared ahead so she goes into this last leg in the lead with £565.25 for the trip ahead.

And the competition is heating up.

I am wee bit ahead of you, David.

Stop it.

A wee bit ahead.

A wee bit?

You are miles ahead, it is ridiculous and should be actually illegal.

VO: Quite right.

Speaking of miles, David and Anita have been travelling over 700 of them all the way from Ramsbottom, Lancashire, snaking their way up through Yorkshire to bonny Scotland ending up in Paisley.

Today's journey is commencing just outside the old weaving village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire and finishes at this week's final auction in Paisley.

VO: David's first shop of this leg is Gardner's Antiques, where he is meeting a dealer also called David.

Standby.

Keep it nice and simple, two Davids together.

Nice to meet you.

VO: And he's quick to spot something of interest.

And that's that big lump of glass screaming the 1960s.

So cool and so stylish, very organic, in its twisty shape.

Look at the light fitting itself, that is not a recent addition, that is original contemporary to the glass.

That flying fish mark is a Strathearn glass mark.

VO: Strathearn glass was manufactured from 1965 to 1980.

Aside from the leaping salmon, it's also recognizable by bold bright colors, similar to the hugely collectable Italian Murano glass.

Something that has a real continental stylish Italian look was actually made probably no more than two hours from where we are standing right now.

It's bang on trend and I want it so badly.

It's unbelievable.

VO: Its ticket price is £95 but will the other David be willing to do a deal?

David, do you love 20th century design?

Or not?

Not really my thing but I can appreciate that it is attractive.

Right.

That's bringing the price down then.

(THEY LAUGH) No, not at all.

No!

(LAUGHS) I didn't think so.

VO: Not looking too hopeful on that discount.

Maybe use some of that Harper charm.

I love it, I've got taste.

You hate it.

VO: Not quite what I had in mind.

What is the best on that for me?

Trade.

That would be £80.

£80.

So that is it, as we say, the death.

It is the death.

DAVID: OK.

OWNER: £80.

Well I think I've got to have it.

David, thank you very much.

VO: David's spent big on his first item, heading boldly towards the final auction.

VO: Anita is 10 miles south in the town of Kilbirnie.

VO: Back in Ayrshire and her old stomping ground, Anita is catching up with girlfriend Greta.

Hi Greta.

Anita, how are you?

It is lovely to see you again.

Lovely to see you again.

And to be back in the Stirrup Cup.

VO: Anita has just over £565 burning a hole in her pocket.

Can she spend some of it in here?

Tell me a bit about this?

GRETA: It was made by this enthusiast, this chap who has completely built it himself with its working steam engine inside.

VO: This boat has been painstakingly made but with a £250 ticket price will thrifty Anita think it's worth the financial risk?

I do like it.

I am sorely tempted.

GRETA: You can't lose money on that.

I know that I quite possibly could.

It's a substantial buy.

It's not a modest buy.

I know, I know.

You wanted to come in and spent 30.

VO: Clearly Greta has dealt with Anita before.

However, the fact that it's been made by an amateur could decrease its value at auction significantly.

What is the very bottom that you would take for it?

220.

I thought you were going to say 150.

No, no, no, no no.

I can't be that much in loss.

Would you take the 200 for it?

I will.

200, that's lovely.

Thank you very much, Greta.

That's a great boat.

VO: Brave move, Anita.

She's risking her lead by spending a huge chunk of her cash on a bit of a gamble item.

Perhaps time to get back to some familiar ground, Anita.

Jewelry.

ANITA: I was looking at this little brooch here.

GRETA: Isn't it sweet?

ANITA: That's nice.

GRETA: Just a pity there's not a name on it.

Is there no mark or hallmark?

I don't see a sculptor's name on it.

ANITA: I think this is quite a nice thing.

Art nouveau and I love that period.

It is a piece of costume jewelry and I think it is very, it is very sweet.

VO: Ticket price is £45.

Looking at a reasonable price that will give me a chance... is 25?

I mean...

It's a bit low.

Yeah, because I was thinking nearer 40.

Well, if I could get even 32.

Could you go to 30 for it?

OK then.

Could we go to 30?

Yeah.

VO: For £230, Anita has picked up two items in this shop and is on her merry way.

Well, I hope my purchases will keep my profit afloat.

And good luck to you.

ANITA: Bye bye.

GRETA: Thank you very much.

VO: David is taking the 35 minute ferry ride across the Firth of Clyde, to the beautiful Isle of Bute.

VO: He is here to visit Mount Stuart, one of the most spectacular gothic revival buildings in Britain.

VO: David is meeting head of collections, Alice Martin.

Lucky old Alice.

Hello Alice.

Hi, welcome to Mount Stuart.

VO: To learn more about this beautiful building and the incredible history surrounding the family who created it.

Alice, this is some entrance hall.

Is it not?

This is a house.

It is a house, yes.

Sort of climbs to about 89 feet.

Every house should have one.

And shows the stars in the northern hemisphere.

VO: The house is the hereditary seat of the Crichton-Stuart family who share common ancestry with the Scottish monarchy.

So how many generations then do the family go back here?

The family's involvement in the island goes right back to the 1300s.

The family were intertwined with the earliest of the Stuart's kings.

So, Walter, high steward to the Scottish king married Robert the Bruce's daughter, Marjorie.

So this family share common ancestry with Bonnie Prince Charlie, Mary Queen of Scots, all of those great figures from Stuart royal history.

VO: The house was originally built in the 1700s but burnt down in 1877.

The third marquis thought at the time to be the richest man in Britain, re-built it in the 1880s.

Unsurprisingly, no expense was spared.

This house is actually a sort of phoenix that arose out of the ashes and is estimated to have cost around £89 million in today's money.

Well you would if you could, wouldn't you?

You would if you could, yes.

VO: When it was re-built, the finest craftsmen of the time were brought in to replicate architectural marvels from around the world.

ALICE: Our floor in the marble chapel is a direct influence from the Sistine chapel, for example.

These banisters that you see around the gallery, they are all exact replicas of Charlemagne's palace in Aachen in Germany.

All of the marble that you see around here is Italian and Sicilian.

He actually built a railway to bring all of the marble from the pier down below the house up to the house and built a workers village for the people that it took.

It sounds like a movie, doesn't it?

It is, it is incredible, yeah.

Such a great script.

VO: The house also comes equipped with some great historical characters.

The third earl of Bute, who lived here in the 18th century was the first Scottish prime minister of the UK.

He was also one of the founders of Kew Gardens and his love of botany is believed to have stemmed from the spectacular grounds here.

OK, so this is our grand dining room.

Grand dining room indeed.

My gosh.

Where did the money come from?

A lot of the money that built this house comes from Wales and coal.

The second marquis inherited through his grandmother, Charlotte Jane Windsor, huge tracks of land in Wales and he being an entrepreneur, the second marquis, actually developed Cardiff from quite a small fishing village into one of the largest coal exporting cities in the world and by building massive docks which were known as the Bute docks.

VO: With unlimited resources, the house was equipped with all mod-cons such as ceiling lights and claims to have the first indoor heated pool in the world.

It was the most modern house in Britain.

Gosh, Alice, I suppose this is a snap shot of absolute modern living for the very rich late 19th century family.

Yeah, if you had imagination and a lot of money, you built one of these and of course, being the first that we know of in the world to be heated in the private home, this is pretty unique and it is just fascinating because this is obviously one of the parts of the house that didn't get finished when the third marquis died in 1900.

Sorry, the house was never finished?

It is still a work in progress.

VO: Whilst the family no longer live in Mount Stuart, they are still dedicated to preserving the Crichton-Stuart family history and the building is now managed by the Mount Stuart Trust.

Thanks to them, and not unlike Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, work on this incredible building still continues today based on its original designs.

VO: Across the water, Anita is in the traditional Scottish holiday resort of Largs.

VO: The last sea going paddle steamer in the world, the Waverly makes regular trips from here in the summer.

VO: Anita is catching up with yet another old pal at Narducci antiques.

VO: In spite of spending big in her first shop, she's still got just over £335 left to spend.

Stand by everyone.

I quite like this little desk piece here.

It's a wee desk accessory and I suppose you would put your papers and envelopes in there.

FRANCO: Letters and envelopes, uh-huh.

And this would be where you would put your inkwells and a little... FRANCO: For your nibs.

ANITA: Nibs or stamps or whatever.

Probably, what would you say, turn of the century?

Turn of the last century, yes, uh-huh.

Edwardian.

And these wee chookey birdies... Sweet aren't they?

They are lovely.

VO: This piece is fresh in today, so no ticket price.

Chance of a bargain perhaps?

I'd like to be paying probably about £20 for it.

I was thinking more around about the 45 mark.

Could you come further down?

Could you come to 25?

30, how does 30 sound?

30 is sounding better, do you know Franco, we're getting there.

(THEY LAUGH) I see you winning this one, do you know that?

VO: Do you know, I do too.

FRANCO: 28 Anita, how is that?

ANITA: We are going to go for that.

It's good at 28.

But can I show you something else which is a wee bit mad and you might just want to... Give you it?

..get rid of it.

VO: Another dealer who knows our wily Anita's ways.

So, that's one item down and another one still to play for.

Franco, I know this is a bit crazy but my eye was taken to this, for me it is a little piece of sculpture.

Uh-huh, yes it is, it is.

Quite an unusual piece, wee center piece for a table.

Uh-huh, for your candles.

For your candles, yes, uh-huh.

When I looked at it I thought, 'is it brand new?

Where does it come from?

'Is it just a piece of nothing really?'

In the end I didn't care because I liked it.

It reminds me of space travel and space ships and surface of the moon and Sputniks and all that sort of stuff.

VO: This looks like a Christofle piece to me which could make it rather sought after.

For you I'll do that for £25.

VO: 25?!

Come on Franco, you must know what you are selling here.

I would really like to be buying it, oh, for a tenner.

Try again, try me again.

Go on.

I'll throw a cuddle in, try again.

I'll throw a cuddle in if you say yes.

FRANCO: 15?

Let's go for both of them.

Thank you, thank you.

OK, thank you.

Oh Franco.

Mwah.

VO: I say, Franco definitely deserves a kiss, he's been incredibly generous as Anita is about to find out.

ANITA: It turns out that this is Christofle which is a good French make.

And Franco has just pointed that out to me.

He has also supplied me with the box for it and if I had known that beforehand, Franco... You'd have paid me fortunes.

You would have paid me fortunes.

I would have paid you another £3.

(LAUGHS) Put it there before you change your mind.

No I am not changing my mind, a deal's a deal.

VO: That's unbelievably kind of you, Franco.

For £43, Anita walks away with a French centerpiece and a fruit wood letter rack.

And that wraps up day one.

Night night.

VO: It's the final day's shopping for our adventurous treasure hunters and we're in Anita's home town of Glasgow.

ANITA: In to bonny Glasgow.

DAVID: In to bonny Glasgow.

Certainly got much warmer when we crossed the border, didn't it?

ANITA: That's right.

DAVID: Palm trees up here and everything.

ANITA: It is always Mediterranean climate in central Scotland.

VO: Ha.

Anita had a great day shopping yesterday.

She took a massive gamble on a working model of the Titanic and also picked up an art nouveau brooch, a fruit wood letter rack and got a Christofle center piece for a bargain, leaving her with just under £300 to spend.

VO: David, however, bought just one item - a Strathearn lamp.

This means he has nearly £350 to splash today.

VO: David's first shop this morning is in Glasgow's Finnieston area, home to a wealth of trendy bars and restaurants.

He is visiting Real Deal Antiques, wonder where that name came from?

VO: Bit of a tight squeeze in here.

Oops.

I've broken one.

Gosh, so tight.

See, the good thing with the antiques business is you can use and abuse stuff and when you do damage, it just adds a bit of character, isn't that right, Michael?

Certainly.

VO: I'm not sure Michael's convinced.

A bit more care needed I think, David.

A little tea caddie.

It is quite unusual to find these things with their original little canisters in there.

This is a tea caddy dated to about 1820 just after the Napoleonic wars.

I mean tea used to cost a fortune, didn't it?

MICHAEL: Really, yeah.

DAVID: I mean 300 years ago, one tea spoon would equate to the average wage of a servant girl, so that is pretty expensive stuff.

VO: Tea first became popular in Britain in the 17th century when Portuguese princess Catherine De Braganza married Charles II.

Known as something of a trend setter, her taste for tea soon caught on.

DAVID: This one is 1820, regency, mahogany, sarcophagus shape.

VO: Ticket price £25.

Looks rough to me.

But those things 20 years ago in mint condition was £300.

In worn out condition like that, a restoration piece was 100.

Now it's a tenner's worth, isn't it?

What is it?

15.

Go on then, let's have that.

It is a good start, £15 for a regency, 140 year old thereabouts tea caddy.

It is absolutely ridiculous in the best possible way.

VO: And if he can avoid knocking anything else over there's plenty more to see.

What have we got here?

MICHAEL: That's bowling trophies.

I know this stand is silver plate.

Let's have a look, engraved, 1975.

William Prout, I think, was a trophy maker in Glasgow.

VO: Ticket price is £35.

On a silver plated stand, could it be re-used as a trophy for someone else?

It is nice to have a Glasgow piece when you are in Glasgow, isn't it?

OK, well it's silver, but it's filled, so it is very thin silver on a stand.

Is that 15?

Let me see.

OK, we'll do that for £15.

VO: Michael's obviously feeling generous and that's another swift deal for the silver trophy.

Any more hidden treasure?

Now that I imagine is a Henry Moore.

Is it?

(THEY LAUGH) Well, if that was a Henry Moore, you and I would be retired, I think.

VO: Well, in my view it has got nothing to do with Henry Moore.

Anyway, the ticket price is £22.

I've had that about nine months, I couldn't really tell you where that came from.

It has been in the cabinet for nine months and nobody has spotted it as a Henry Moore yet?

Ha, no, no.

It's quite good fun actually.

It's not bronze, it's just metal, isn't it?

It's a bit mad.

Is that a £5 note?

That is a good tenner's worth.

Go on then, I'll give you 10 quid for a Henry Moore.

Marvelous.

I'm done, brilliant, I bought three things.

Right, OK.

Thank you very much, let's get out before I smash something.

VO: Quite right.

That's a total of £40 for three lots.

Good job.

Thank you very much.

VO: Anita is also in Glasgow.

She's going to learn about famous Scottish comedian and singer Harry Lauder, one of the greatest performers and best-selling recording artists of his generation.

VO: She's meeting Paul Maloney.

Hello Paul!

Anita!

Hello, nice to meet you.

It is lovely to meet you.

VO: They're at Glasgow university library, home to one of the largest collections of Harry Lauder memorabilia in the world.

Would you like to come in and see the collection?

Yes!

ANITA: Who was Harry Lauder?

What was his background?

Did he come from Glasgow?

No, he was born in Portobello, which is the seaside town outside Edinburgh, and his father was a potter.

VO: The family moved briefly to England, but following the tragic death of Harry's father, moved back to Scotland, finally settling in Hamilton just outside Glasgow.

This meant that Harry had to become effectively the breadwinner very early on in his life.

VO: Harry started working in the flax mills and eventually ended up in the mines.

Lauder claimed it was here that he learned to be a comic, while working grueling 12-hour shifts with no natural light.

ANITA: It seems an unlikely background for a theater performer.

He was always interested in singing and performing, and in fact about the time he started work as a sort of boy worker in a way, he began entering competitions.

He was very successful, he was obviously very good at it and by the time we get to the 1890s, he begins to get offers of work, what were called semi- professional offers of work.

VO: Lauder received his big break in 1892, when he had an offer to tour the country with a concert party.

And so he goes off on a 14 week tour with a concert party, all over Scotland, and it's a fantastic sort of apprenticeship for him.

VO: Despite Glasgow being at the heart of the heyday of Scottish variety theater, it wasn't until Lauder moved to London that his career really took off.

In 1900, he decided to go to London, what was in some ways a sort of make or break exercise.

And he got lucky.

A performer went off ill, and he was asked at very short notice by telegram to come and go on that night.

He charmed the audience, he sang his Scotch comic material, and after that, offers of work flooded in.

Paul, tell me a wee bit about the kind of act that he would have done in those first days.

He would sing a succession of comic songs, each with a different character.

And sometimes he'd drag up and play a woman or he'd play a whole range of people.

VO: Lauder's arrival on the scene coincided with the rise of the gramophone.

In 1902, he cut his first track, and was the first British artist to sell one million records.

ANITA: When I think of Harry Lauder songs, "Roamin' in the Gloamin'", "I Love a Lassie", I mean, people are still singing these songs today.

Yeah.

VO: After a successful stint in panto in 1907, Lauder decided to take his act to the United States.

Again, with unbelievable results.

PAUL: He was hugely successful there.

By 1908, he was earning $5,000 a week playing in America, and at the height of his success, which came slightly later in the States, he would have his own trains to travel with his company called Lauder Express.

ANITA: He was a superstar.

He was a superstar.

VO: Hugely influential throughout his career, Lauder met with five American presidents.

He had the world at his feet when World War I broke out.

1917 he got a telegram, the dreaded telegram, saying that his son had been killed in action.

VO: Following this devastating news, Lauder's focus moved from showbusiness to the war effort.

Against the advice of the War Office, he took his show to the troops in the trenches to boost morale.

He even tried to enlist himself, but was too old.

PAUL: He was very concerned about the troops, about what would happen to all the wounded, what's going to happen to these people after, how are they going to survive?

VO: Lauder went on to establish the Million Pound Fund to help injured soldiers.

He also made a short film with close friend Charlie Chaplin to help raise funds.

PAUL: He was a hugely energetic man, and clearly poured all his energy into doing this.

VO: In 1919, Lauder was knighted for his work during the war.

In the 1930s, he retired from the stage but continued to do the odd performance and fundraise during the Second World War.

In a career spanning four decades, he touched the lives of countless people with his generosity, gentle humor and catchy tunes.

VO: David is nearby, visiting Glasgow City Antiques.

He's got just under £310 left to spend.

So this is my last chance on this whole trip to pull it back.

One more purchase, and I can't go the safe route.

VO: Can dealer, John, help him find that winning item?

Oh, John, here I am, looking at a pair of oriental vases.

I can sense myself getting into all sorts of trouble here.

Do you love them?

JOHN: No.

DAVID: You don't?!

No!

Seriously?

Why?

What is wrong with you?!

The amount of damage.

VO: That doesn't seem to be putting David off.

Neither does the ticket price of £220.

I can't help be drawn to them.

I mean, there you have a pair of monumental Japanese late 19th century Meiji period Satsuma vases.

A pair, John!

What's wrong with you?!

VO: It's make or break.

David needs to seriously think about this.

They're beautiful vases, but severely damaged.

Can I buy them for sub-£100?

JOHN: 100 quid cash.

That's not sub-100.

No, 100 quid, cash.

OK, I'm probably the only person in the world that is very happy to buy a pair of smashed Satsuma vases.

I'm going to have to have them, I love them so much, I don't care.

£100.

Wish me all the luck.

I certainly do, yes.

VO: Wow, I don't believe it.

He's got an incredible 50% off his final item, but it's still a bit of a gamble to buy something so badly damaged for the all-important last auction.

VO: Anita has crossed over to the south bank of the River Clyde, and the district of Govan.

She's visiting the eclectic Love Salvage with just under £300 in her pocket.

Go Anita.

Go girl.

Harley Davidson.

Brm-brm, brm-brm!

Five foot four.

I've grown.

It's a big adventure playground.

VO: And speaking of adventurers... (ANITA LAUGHS) It's a laughing policeman.

John, where did this come from?

You've got to tell me.

We got it a while back from another private dealer.

It's paper mache, some sort of fairground attraction.

Uh-huh.

Not got a lot of origin information about it.

ANITA: I know, but it's such a hoot.

JOHN: Yeah, it brightens up the place as well, you know.

I quite fancy him.

VO: Yes.

Does she love him enough to fork out some serious cash?

Remember, you've already taken a titanic-sized risk on this leg, Anita.

Is this guy for sale?

He is indeed.

Everything's for sale?

Everything's for sale.

OK, darling.

VO: But for what price?

JOHN: Should be OK there.

VO: Anita is way in the lead, but one wrong buy could cost her dearly.

Tell me what you might look for him?

He's priced about £60 just now.

60?

Yeah.

He is just such great fun.

Would you take £40 for him?

I think we could do 45 probably the best, I'd be sad to see him go, but he has been here a wee while.

Well, I think maybe he's got a new home then, at 45.

Fantastic.

Put it there, John!

Thank you very much, Anita.

Thank you.

You're coming home with me.

(JOHN LAUGHS) And he's still smiling!

Aye, he's still smiling!

VO: And so is Anita.

Thank you very much, John.

Thank you for your custom.

Thanks for your visit.

VO: That last purchase for £45 wraps up this trip's shopping.

Anita added the policeman's head to her giant risk of the model of the Titanic and her potentially valuable Christofle centerpiece.

She also bought an art nouveau brooch and a letter rack.

Anita spent a total of £318.

VO: David, for once, has spent less than Anita - just £220.

For this, he picked up a Strathearn lamp, a circa 1820s tea caddy, a silver bowls trophy, a modernist golf trophy and also took a bit of a gamble on a pair of Meiji Japanese Satsuma vases.

Which are bust.

But what do they think of each other's final purchases?

Now this is where it starts to get serious - the Titanic model.

It's got bigness, it's a big baby.

That could make her a bit, but I'm hoping - please - it's going to lose her a bit.

The vases!

These are massive, they are immense.

The damage is going to make a difference.

He's taken a chance, he's been brave.

But well done, David.

VO: The last auction is finally upon us, and our dazzling duo are just outside Glasgow in the town of Paisley.

VO: With a lot of catching up to do, are you feeling a bit nervous, David?

Our very, very last auction.

Stop it!

I'm far too nervous to talk about it!

We've both got potential for profits, David.

Yeah, we do, actually.

We do.

ANITA: And we've also got potential for loses.

You have taken some chances, and I love you for it, I really do.

It makes it very exciting.

VO: The auction today is online and in the room, and is taking place at Collins & Paterson auctioneers.

Wielding the gavel this morning is Stephen Maxwell.

The Titanic should sell really well, I think.

It's in fantastic condition and I believe it is in working order as well, so I'm very confident it should sail off at a good price.

The pair of tall Japanese vases do have extensive damage, so I have my doubts as to whether they might sell particularly well.

VO: Only time will tell.

So let the auction commence.

Ooh, so exciting, eh?

You're up first.

I'm up first.

VO: Calm yourself, David.

First up, Anita's brooch.

Straight in at £12.

£12... Oh, going to get excited there.

18.

At 20 now, it's your bid, sir, at £20 has it.

We need a wee bit more.

Selling it at £20.

Gone to number 289.

Hm.

Not brilliant, not brilliant.

VO: A disappointing start there for Anita, and that was her safe item.

I feel fantastic.

Absolute - I'm ecstatic.

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

VO: Not graceful of you, David.

Will he be quite so smug after his first lot, the silver bowls trophy?

At 15 then, at 15, 15 I have here.

You bidding?

£18.

20.

And two.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

Any advance?

We will sell it then at £22.

Gone.

£7, on paper, profit.

VO: Not a bad start for David, though he is going to need to do better than that to catch his rival.

I'm getting there, Anita, I'm catching you.

I'm catching you up.

VO: Can his tea caddy shrink Anita's lead even more?

How do you feel about that?

Very confident.

It should double its money.

Yeah.

Really, it should.

I'm going for the 100%, I'm going double bubble.

It's a wee bit tired, David.

I know but aren't we all?

If you've been around since 1820, you'd be a bit tired.

Any tea drinkers in today?

Come on now, £30 surely?

At 20 then.

Come on get it started.

£20, thank you madam, £20 we have.

We have 22?

22 at the back.

25.

No, you are out sir.

With the lady at 25.

Come on!

25, still at 25.

We will sell it then at 25.

A bit more!

Gone there is 309.

It's not double bubble so I'm not happy.

VO: Still, not a bad profit though, David.

Next, it's Anita's letter rack.

Thank you sir, 25 I have straight in, 28, £30.

ANITA: 30.

DAVID: You're in.

38, at the back it's with the gent now at £38.

Gone there 216, £38.

That's alright, are you pleased with that?

I'm happy.

You've made back the loss.

I'm delirious.

Are you?

I'm delirious.

Doesn't take much, does it?

VO: Apparently not.

Another nice little profit.

I'm very happy for you.

Are you very, very happy?

Yeah.

Delighted.

Ecstatic.

Let's see a big smile then.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Next up it's David's Strathearn lamp that he fell in love with and rated so highly.

Good Scottish glass lamp this one, start me in at 20 surely?

20, thank you sir, £20 we have.

20 bid, do we have - 22 at the back.

25, no you are out madam, with the gent at 25, do we have 28?

With the gent then, we are selling to the room.

It is going to be horrible.

Gone, 338.

£25.

Terrible.

I knew it, I knew it but I loved it, what can you do?

What can you do?

VO: Well, bad luck David, it's a big loss.

Just not what he needed in this all important last auction.

I'd buy it again.

Would you?

(DAVID LAUGHS) I bet you wouldn't.

VO: Probably not.

Next up it's Anita's accidental great find.

A Christofle center piece.

She got this for a steal but will it live up to its potential?

I love it.

It is modernist, it is French, it is ooh la la, it has got everything going for it.

I'll start here on commission, straight in at £20, £20 I have here.

Unbelievable.

22, the gentleman, 25?

28.

30.

And two.

Now it is your bid, sir, it is in the room at 32 has it.

35 new bidder.

38.

40.

Well, I never.

It's taking off.

50, five.

60 and five.

70 and five.

80 and five.

90 and five.

£100?

And 10.

120, 130.

VO: Crikey and it's still going.

160.

170.

180.

190.

200?

And 10.

220.

230.

240.

250.

260.

270.

I thought it sold for a fiver.

280.

290.

The bid is with the gentleman in grey, we are selling to the room, fair warning to you, at £290.

Gone, it's yours sir, 290.

Yes!

That's my Titanic then, isn't it?

Never mind that thing.

That is unbelievable.

VO: Unbelievable, it really was an incredible buy.

That amazing profit has now pushed Anita even further into the lead.

I must say I am quite happy about that.

Happy?

You should be doing the blinking can-can.

The highland fling.

Do that if you like.

VO: Well, David, you have really got your work cut out now.

It's your modernist golf trophy up next.

£10 for the trophy.

£10, surely the trophy?

£5 for the trophy.

Ugh, goodness sake.

Any advance on £5?

Eight, the lady now.

£10.

A lady of taste.

You back in at 12?

No?

Yes, £12.

15.

Still with the gentleman.

We are selling at £15.

Gone there at £15.

Disaster zone.

You've made a profit.

Oh, fiver.

I need a lot more than that to catch you.

VO: Anita's laughing policeman's head was an unusual pick.

Let's see how he does this morning.

It is a paper mache fairground head of a laughing policeman, no less.

ANITA: Beautiful.

I never thought I would say those words in an auction room.

Interesting lot, what can we say about it?

Where would you start?

I have no idea.

£20?

Yes, thank you sir, straight in at 20.

£20 we have.

Do we have 22?

22.

25.

28.

30.

And two.

35.

With the same gent at 35.

Any advance?

We are selling then at £35.

Gone amazingly 140, £35.

VO: It was love at first sight for Anita but clearly not to the people of Paisley.

But her last item was the big gamble.

Time for Anita's Titanic model.

ANITA: Will it sink or will it soar?

Lovely item this.

I'm hoping it will sail away to somewhere nice shortly.

Hopefully profit.

£100?

Thank you sir.

Gentleman has the bid at £100.

110 bid.

120.

130.

140.

150.

160.

The room is going quiet now.

170.

The bid is here at 180.

Bidding sir in white?

190.

200.

You're out.

The bid is still in black, it is to my left with the gentleman.

Selling at £200.

Gone number 67.

£200 for the Titanic.

VO: Wiped its face.

Now Anita must be massively relieved with that result.

Next it's the final lot of the competition, and it all rest on David's beloved Meiji vases.

David might be behind, but could this all be about to change?

I could make a bit of profit but I'm not going to catch up to you, am I?

VO: Come on David, where is your fighting spirit?

Stiffen up, man.

Who will start me at £100?

DAVID: Go on.

£100 surely for the pair?

Large vases, £100?

DAVID: Go on!

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

Yeah.

I will start then on commission, I have £50 to start.

DAVID: Argh!

Just a starting point.

50 is with me.

Do we have five?

55.

Bid £60.

65.

70.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

75.

80?

You're out.

Still with me, 80.

On commission at 80, do we have 85?

Still with me at 80, selling then... You won't, don't sell them, don't sell them.

Gone.

Oh no!

(LAUGHS) Unbelievable.

ANITA: Awww.

VO: Crikey, someone has got those for a bargain.

Bad luck, David.

I don't care what you say, you have absolutely thrashed me within an inch of my life.

So I think we should go and... cup of tea, cake, re-group and do the figures.

VO: So at the end of five incredible auctions the results are as follows: David started this leg with £429.84.

After auction costs are deducted, he made a loss of £83.06, meaning he ends this competition with a respectable £346.78.

VO: Anita started out with £565.25.

She's had another great auction today making, after costs, a profit of £160.06.

This means she is not just today's winner but also the victor of this Road Trip with a spectacular final figure of £725.31.

Well done, Anita.

And all profits go to Children in Need.

DAVID: So you know what?

That's one each.

Several years ago you and I hit the road and I beat you.

So I am going to give you two or three years off and I am going to re-challenge you.

Be it on your own head.

VO: It's been a memorable old road trip.

Wooooo!

ANITA: The sun is shining, the sky is blue.

And the roof is off!

(DAVID LAUGHS) VO: With some big big wins.

Whoa!

VO: And some serious blows.

(BLOWS HORN) # ..to Dundee # Do you like men in uniform?

LADY: I do.

Quite fancy him.

VO: But above all, an unbreakable bond has been fought.

ANITA: I've got on a Marks and Spencer's silk vest.

DAVID: Oh, hello.

VO: Next week, a brand new pair of experts hit the road.

When wisdom meets youth.

(SHE LAUGHS) With Philip Serrell and Natasha Raskin.

How old are you?

Shut up.

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