VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts... Alright viewers?

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

I'm on fire!

Yes!

Sold!

Going, going, gone.

VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

50p!

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

You've had it a while, haven't you?

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

Ooh!

Oh no!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

VO: On this road trip, we're traveling with two auctioneering aces that are also the best of pals.

ANITA: James, this is our last leg, and I'll be awful sad to finish it, because we have had a few laughs, haven't we?

VO: Anita Manning is a glamorous Glasgow girl who has had her fair share of surprises on this trip.

JAMES: There.

ANITA: Ah!

Ah!

ANITA: I still don't like spiders.

JAMES: Ha!

Well, hopefully we won't find any on the last leg.

Or maybe on the last eight legs!

Don't... VO: Very good, James.

Whilst James Lewis is a Derbyshire lad who's really displayed the Midas touch.

Give him a wee clap.

VO: They both began this trip with £200.

On previous legs, Anita has managed to swell her coffers to a healthy £466.32.

VO: But James is currently Mr Moneybags, having accumulated a cash pot of an extraordinary £1,204.54.

VO: Today our twosome are driving a swinging sixties sweetheart: the 1969 Volkswagen Beetle.

ANITA: We've seen some wonderful counties in England.

JAMES: We've been to Herefordshire.

No, Hertfordshire... VO: Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire, where hurricanes hardly ever happen!

Ha!

They started this whole road trip actually in Oxfordshire, and have toured the stately southern counties of England, heading for auction in London.

On this last leg of their journey, they'll begin in Dorchester, with all eyes on their final auction in our nation's capital.

JAMES: Oxfordshire, Devon, Dorset... VO: Hm.

Yes, they've been all over.

But this morning, they are indeed in Dorset - look at that!

- and driving towards Dorchester, where they're both beginning their day's shopping.

Ooh.

They've driven straight into the middle of a classic motorcycle meet - look.

VO: Ha!

Trust you two!

Probably try and buy one, James!

JAMES: Wow, look at this.

ANITA: Oh, James!

Oh, wow!

An old Norton!

ANITA: Wow!

JAMES: (LAUGHS) JAMES: This is very much your era, isn't it?

Yeah...oh... 1930s and all that.

ANITA: ..watch it!

Watch it!

JAMES: Oh, dear.

These are wonderful.

JAMES: Golly.

OK. Oh, James... JAMES: Anyway, less about the old bikes - more about antiques.

ANITA: OK. VO: Indeed.

They're splitting up to wander to their first shops.

VO: James is strolling off into De Dannan Antiques, where he's meeting dealer John.

JAMES: Hello there.

JOHN: Alright?

JAMES: Is it John?

JOHN: Yeah.

James.

Nice to see you.

Thank you.

Hi.

Golly, you've got a big place!

VO: No need to be personal.

It's a sizeable antiques center, so he'll need to use his head if he's gonna root out a bargain.

Hello.

VO: Hello!

He's shortly spotted another couple of animal-themed items.

JAMES: Crufts dog show.

They look early.

A pair of - electroplated base metal - cups, commemorating the Crufts dog show.

When did Crufts start?

VO: 1891, as it happens.

VO: These possibly date from the early years of the event.

Ticket price is £45 for the pair.

Not much.

The style of them, this is very much in what we called the rococo style.

JAMES: Very Victorian, embossed with flowers and these giant C scrolls.

JAMES: It says they're a pair, but they're not, because if you hold them together, one is about half an inch longer than the other, and also different makers.

So I reckon they'd've been different years.

VO: He's noting them and browsing on.

VO: Soon he's spied something else, which really speaks of its own history.

That's quite interesting.

JAMES: Lieutenant W. Batty, of the Royal Signals.

So we've got an engineer's tool cabinet, with precision instruments and chisels.

VO: I don't see any precision instruments, but the Royal Corps of Signals is a branch of the armed forces dedicated to telecommunications.

This toolkit dates from the early 20th century.

VO: Well, maybe.

Ticket price £60.

It's mahogany lined as well, which is nice, and brass locks and hinges.

John?

JOHN: Alright there?

JAMES: Could I..?

JOHN: Yeah.

JAMES: Thank you.

JOHN: Oop... Doobee-doobee-do... Got a couple of things I'm looking at up here.

JAMES: I thought they're quite interesting.

JOHN: Yeah, Crufts.

And I thought they might be quite early Crufts trophies, but they're not a pair though.

Look, one's slightly bigger than the other.

JOHN: Good Lord.

One for one year and one for another?

Yeah, that's what I think, probably.

Eh...25.

25.

OK. VO: And what about the signalman's toolkit?

JOHN: That could be 40.

40.

F...forty...65.

JOHN: 60 for the two.

50 the two?

55?

JAMES: There you go.

55.

Thank you.

VO: Excellent!

A great deal done, with military efficiency, and James has the Crufts vases and the toolkit for £55 the lot.

VO: Now, Anita's nearby, at Dorchester Curiosity Center, where she's meeting dealer Martin.

Stand by, Martin.

Ah, hello.

How are you?

How are you?

I'm Anita.

Hi, I'm Martin, nice to meet you.

VO: Anita's full of childlike wonder this morning.

I love this type of place.

It's a big warehouse and there's thousands and thousands of items of every type and every fashion.

VO: And she's soon spotted something outside that she'd like to take for a ride.

What's this wee soul doing out here, all alone?

He's a black beauty.

VO: Certainly is.

It's a metal, spring-mounted rocking horse.

Ticket price is £65.

He's a tin toy.

He's from the 1940s, so he has a bit of age.

He's a vintage item.

He's resting on these springs, and it's a fairly tough and substantial toy.

VO: Of course, she's going to test that theory.

Stand by.

It'd probably take my weight.

VO: Careful!

Oh, my..!

My legs are too long.

But he's a good, strong creature.

I think I'll have a go at him.

VO: Mm.

Better get Martin.

ANITA: Why has he been tethered outside?

He likes the fresh air.

ANITA: What I'd be looking to buy him for is round about £25.

MARTIN: Right.

I'd like to look at...at 30.

ANITA: At 30?

MARTIN: Yeah.

ANITA: Uh-huh.

Could you come a wee bit sort of halfway between the two?

MARTIN: Let's go £28, then.

How's that?

ANITA: £28.

That sounds absolutely wonderful.

Good.

Thank you very much.

VO: One item safely stabled, and she's soon toying with the idea of another playful buy.

ANITA: Oh, we've got a whole army there.

I'm not sure which army!

VO: I think it's second childhood, you know.

100 lead toy soldiers, not all originating from the same set.

Ticket price on the whole assortment is £108.

Is she going gaga?

ANITA: I think we have Confederates, so it might be something to do, or some of them might be something to do with the American Civil War.

I'm going to ask the dealer about them.

VO: The dealer who owns them is called Gary.

ANITA: Excuse me, hello.

GARY: Hello there.

ANITA: I'm Anita.

Hello, Anita.

Gary.

ANITA: What I do like about this is that you've got quite a quantity.

You can have a good wee war there.

Good wee battle, yeah.

Yeah.

And if all else fails, you've got these four Scotsmen with kilts on, who will come down and win the battle.

VO: And all this chat about brave Scots warriors has whetted Anita's appetite for a serious haggle.

Look out, Gary!

ANITA: Can they be bought for, in the region...of, say 30, £35?

I think the best I could do, really, is 55.

ANITA: 55 on that?

GARY: Yeah.

Could you take another tenner off of it?

I'll meet you halfway.

50.

Shall we go for it?

If you're happy.

ANITA: Let's go.

That's lovely.

GARY: Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Gary.

That's smashing.

You're very welcome.

I'm in a playful mood today.

VO: You certainly seem to be.

So, she's got the rocking horse and the lead soldiers for a total of £78.

And now she's trotting off to find a sandpit to play in, perhaps.

VO: Now, James is still in his first shop.

That's ominous.

JAMES: That's quite interesting.

It's a shot flask for...or powder flask, for an 18th century musket.

So made from one whole cow horn.

VO: Mm.

It's designed to hold shot or gunpowder.

Ticket price is £18, and James is impressed with its quality.

JAMES: Cuz, just look at the way that that's been heated and flattened - very subtly done - into these panels, and then spiraled.

JAMES: £18.

Well, it's not expensive at that.

JAMES: I'll just see what he can do on it, see what his best price is.

VO: Go for it.

JAMES: Hi.

JOHN: Oh, hi.

What could you do on that for me?

JOHN: Nine.

JAMES: Nine?

JOHN: Yeah.

JAMES: Deal.

JOHN: Alright.

JAMES: Thank you very much.

JOHN: Thank you.

JAMES: That's grand.

VO: Golly, that deal was over like a shot!

Swift work, chaps.

VO: And his magpie eye is soon caught by something shiny elsewhere in the shop.

I'm thinking about useful things for the dining table.

And there we've got a pair of Victorian Sheffield plate bottle coasters.

VO: Sheffield plate is clever stuff.

It looks like just like the real solid silver except it's silver on top of a layer of copper, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

VO: Two pairs of the coasters priced up at £30 each, so £60 the lot.

But it's the damage, and the damage is...is key.

We've got a boss missing off that one, in the center, and we've got woodworm in the base there.

VO: Best see what John can do then.

Those, John.

What could they be?

40 the lot.

JAMES: How about 35, then?

JOHN: 35, yeah?

JAMES: Is 35 alright?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

JAMES: You've got a deal.

JOHN: OK?

JAMES: Thank you very much.

JOHN: Thank you.

JAMES: Thank you.

VO: Smashing.

After a bumper browse in this shop, James has secured a whopping four items.

Thank you, John!

VO: Now Anita is also still in Dorchester.

Continuing the playful theme she started this morning's shopping with, she's now wandered on to the town's Teddy Bear Museum...

Fancy a hug?

(BELL RINGS) VO: ..where she's meeting the proprietor, Jackie Ridley.

ANITA: Hello, it's lovely to be here.

My name's Anita.

I'm Jackie.

And I'm a teddy bear girl.

Oh, I'm so glad!

Well, you've come to the right place!

VO: This enchanting museum grew out of Jackie's own enormous and quirky collection of teddy bears.

VO: Collecting bears is a personal passion that she's had since childhood.

ANITA: Do you still have your first bear?

I do, and he's here today.

Is he?

Oh!

Can I have a wee cuddle?

JACKIE: Oh, yes.

ANITA: Aw, he's very sweet.

He's very sweet.

ANITA: Jackie, I can't wait to see the rest of the collection.

JACKIE: Oh, do come... Well, come and have a look.

VO: Teddy bears are named after US President Theodore or "Teddy" Roosevelt.

The story goes that Roosevelt spared the life of a bear when on a hunting trip, and this inspired a couple who owned a Brooklyn candy store to create a toy, in tribute.

JACKIE: The wife, Rose, would act...Rose Michtom, would actually make a little tiny "Teddy's bear", so she makes a "Teddy's bear" and pops it in her husband's shop window.

ANITA: And that's how they started?

That's how it all started.

Yes... VO: Though the teddy is as American as apple pie in its origins, it was a German company - Steiff - that really popularized it, and remains the key name in collectable bears to this day.

JACKIE: Well, Margarete Steiff was... had the capacity to key into this "Teddy's bear".

She had a huge factory and she was able to suddenly manufacture them in quantity.

And by 1903, the Germans had virtually taken over the market for this new phenomenon, which everyone wanted, which was a "teddy bear".

So they had the capacity.

They did it.

They got in first.

VO: The Steiff company has remained synonymous with valuable and collectable bears.

VO: Jackie's taking Anita to see a copy of the most valuable teddy in the world - a Steiff bear that sold at auction for an astonishing £110,000.

In the museum, what we wanted to do was we wanted to show people what someone has bought for that kind of money.

ANITA: What are we looking for in an early Steiff bear?

ANITA: What are the characteristics that we need to look for?

Look at the length of the arms.

ANITA: Mm-hm.

Look at this lovely hump.

Look at the way the stitching is done, the way the nose is made, and the eyes.

JACKIE: The eyes are glass eyes.

They're not plastic eyes.

JACKIE: I don't think it's only that, but it's the fact that this is just a gorgeous thing.

ANITA: Oh, well, I think this will send us all searching in the attics for our old teddy bear.

Absolutely, but it would have to be a very, very special teddy bear.

VO: It would.

It's nearly time for Anita to hit the road, but first she's going to have a last look round Jackie's collection.

VO: Look out, Anita - some of the locals are taking an interest in you.

They want an autograph.

VO: And with that, it's the end of a jolly packed first day.

Night night, chaps.

VO: But the fresh morning air greets them back in the car, and as competitive as ever.

JAMES: I bought some really wonderful things.

ANITA: Oh, no!

JAMES: I mean wonderful.

Oh, no!

I mean... VO: Don't despair, Anita.

So far, James has spent £99 on four lots: the army engineer's toolbox; the Crufts vases; the 18th century shot flask; and the bottle coasters.

VO: Whilst Anita has spent only £78, on two lots: the rocking horse and the job lot of toy soldiers.

What I want to do today, James, is to find something that's going to make me £3,000!

VO: Don't we all, Anita?!

Let's hope your luck's in, girl.

VO: They're driving to the city of Portsmouth, in Hampshire.

VO: Portsmouth has for centuries been one of Britain's most vital naval ports.

Its history is commemorated by the city's modern Spinnaker Tower.

They're pulling up beside a naval hero.

JAMES: Ah, there we go.

Well done, James.

Who is that?

JAMES: It's Nelson, of course.

Oh, yeah.

Good looking guy from the back.

VO: Hey, Anita!

Stop ogling the statue!

She's gonna drive onwards though, but James is going to his first shop.

JAMES: Have fun.

ANITA: Bye bye, darling.

Bye bye.

VO: He's marching off towards the Antiques Storehouse, which is located right in the heart of Portsmouth's historic docks.

James has been here before, so already knows dealer Andrew.

Hi, Andrew, how are you?

Hi, James.

JAMES: Good to see you again.

Got to find something that has got a chance of making a profit.

VO: Yep, that's the general idea.

But he's just been something with real historic interest - look.

One thing that almost everybody finds when they're doing a house clearance, stuck at the back of the bureau, is granny's death certificate or granddad's death certificate, but...this one is slightly different.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.

I mean that...is an incredible thing to see - Churchill's death certificate.

There would be more than one.

JAMES: You would have to prove to the tax office, to the Inland Revenue, but also you would have copies made for the family as well, for the family records.

VO: Yeah, there could be lots of copies knocking about.

It's priced at £1,100.

Ha!

So James isn't sure he could make a profit on it.

VO: But he's visited this shop on a previous road trip, and he's remembered some stock of Andrew's he'd like to revisit.

One of the things that you pointed out, very kindly, were two very thick boxes, blue boxes... Yeah.

..of William Wylie sketches.

I haven't moved them since!

JAMES: Haven't you?!

VO: Andrew has two boxes, crammed full of works that came from the studio of popular artist William Lionel Wyllie, who painted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

ANDRFEW: There you go.

JAMES: Ah, brilliant.

Where shall we go with these?

VO: James did rather well from the last Wyllie sketch he bought here.

Can he repeat the trick?

JAMES: Here we have a whole mass of prints and watercolors, and sketches, by William Wyllie.

And William Wyllie was really known for his etchings of yachts and ships.

And there's the man himself, there he is, that's William Wyllie, painting a large-scale oil.

VO: James has found one unusual sketch that he really likes.

JAMES: See, I think that's quite smart.

And there's a bird, sitting on a cat's head, sharing a bowl of milk with mice.

"United Happy Family", he's called it!

JAMES: That's bonkers.

Love it.

VO: He's going to speak to Andrew about that one.

That be 10?

Yeah, that's fine.

10 VO: And he's also selected another piece.

And there's a yacht.

Yeah.

Which I thought would be more his sort of thing, so, I mean, what would you want for that?

I mean, that's going to be getting...well, certainly £50 for that.

50.

OK. Take 50 the two?

I'll do them for 60, I think.

I think... That was 50 and that was 10 anyway.

Oh, was it?

I thought I said 20.

No.

OK, 50's fine.

Yeah!

You got a deal.

Absolutely.

That is really nice, actually.

VO: It is.

James gets his "Wyllie" way with his Wyllie pictures for £50, and he's sailing onwards.

Hopefully upwards.

VO: Ha!

Now, Anita's driven on to the town of Fareham, Hampshire where she's visiting Antiques of Fareham.

VO: Proprietor Nick has his stock in a rather unusual setting.

Hello.

Hello.

I'm Anita Manning.

Hi, I'm Nick.

I'm looking to buy some antiques.

Am I right..?

Am I in the right place?

Yes, you are.

I tell you what, if you just stand over there, I'll open up the door and reveal all to you.

OK?

Sounds interesting.

VO: It does.

VO: What are you up to, Anita?

Hello again.

Hello!

VO: Nick and his wife used to have a shop in town but now mainly deal online and at antique fairs, so they've generously allowed Anita into their garage - Ha!

- where they keep their stock.

Best behavior now, Anita.

ANITA: Ah, terrific.

Can I have a wee look around?

You can.

VO: And she's soon unearthed something that she likes the look of.

ANITA: I rather like this little purse.

Late 19th, early 20th century.

ANITA: If you open it up, it's in absolutely perfect condition.

But it has a faintly art deco look about it - as if it was blowing a kiss to the art deco period.

VO: Mm.

You do have a way with words, Anita.

Ticket price is £35.

VO: The purse is made of ivory, but of course it's illegal to trade in ivory items made after 1947.

But this little purse here was made well before that time.

VO: And there's something else from a similar period that's also caught her fancy.

ANITA: I like this.

I find it very appealing.

It's a little evening purse.

Now, the body of the purse is made of the finest kid leather.

It's very soft.

So there's a sort of slight art deco look about that.

This is probably the type of purse that a fine, stylish lady would have carried on a night out, the turn of the century, in Shanghai.

VO: Oh.

Ticket price on the leather purse is £18.

She's going to ask Nick about both her Art Deco-influenced items.

ANITA: What they've both got is probably more style...

Yes.

..than quality, would you agree with me on that?

NICK: Yes, absolutely.

ANITA: Uh-huh?

Made for...at the turn-of-the-century, when the style was at its height, really.

VO: What will Anita offer on the ivory purse?

ANITA: I would be thinking of that probably in the region of £12-£15.

VO: And what about the leather one?

ANITA: I'd be maybe in the region of £8.

Round about that.

Mm.

ANITA: Am I anywhere near where it may be possible to buy these?

I think we might be able to do something.

I don't know if I can do it quite as low as that, but for me, to cover my costs and just make a little bit, I think what I'd be looking at would be about 25, 27 for the pair.

ANITA: Is there any possibility of coming near 20 on it?

Um...I think just to...make it the little bit in it for me, if I said 22.

Would that be it?

That's absolutely fine with me.

NICK: Yeah?

ANITA: I'm happy with that.

VO: So Anita's got her stylish buys and she's off.

VO: Now James has driven on to the Southsea area of Portsmouth.

He's going to spend the afternoon visiting the area's Royal Marines Museum, where he's going to learn the dashing, eccentric and terribly British story of one Royal Marine who served in World War II and put his artistic skills to use us as a spy.

He is meeting the museum's curator, Ian Maine.

JAMES: Ian?

IAN: Welcome to the Royal Marines Museum.

Thank you very much.

What a spot!

JAMES: I'd love to see more, shall we go in and have a look?

Let's go and have a look.

After you.

VO: Ian's taking James into the museum's medal room, which houses their vast collection of decorations awarded to Royal Marines.

The stories of over 2,500 brave servicemen are celebrated here, but James has come to learn about one particular charismatic Marines officer.

IAN: So, huge number of stories represented in the museum.

IAN: A lot of them quite unexpected.

This chap here is Major Guy Griffiths, and he was actually a Royal Marines pilot, just before the Second World War.

VO: Guy Griffiths served in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Marines, a flying unit deployed at sea.

IAN: Guy Griffiths was actually on board the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1939.

He was one of the very first Fleet Air Arm pilots to attempt to sink a submarine.

VO: In September 1939, Griffiths, along with his observer colleague, took off from the Ark Royal, on a mission to bomb a German U-boat.

IAN: He caught sight of the U-boat and he released his bombs onto the U-boat, and unfortunately he was actually too close, and as the bombs went off, they actually blew the tailplane off of his aircraft.

IAN: He ditched in the sea, his observer had been killed, and he had the rather embarrassing prospect of actually being rescued by the people that he had tried to sink.

He was actually one of the first people...

Very early.

..to become a POW during the Second World War.

VO: As this amazing cine footage shows, the early days in POW camps could actually be quite civilized for the officer class.

IAN: But of course he ended up in one of the most sort of more well-known camps, which was Stalag Luft III.

JAMES: Oh, blimey!

Which of course was the one that was made famous in the film 'The Great Escape'.

JAMES: 'Great Escape'.

VO: And the real-life story also inspired a specific character in the famous film.

IAN: Griffiths was actually a very keen artist and illustrator, and so what Griffiths actually did during his time in captivity was he did a lot of drawing and painting.

But he was also involved in the forging team, so the character that's played by Donald Pleasance...

Yes.

..he was actually part of that... Faking the passports and things, and then their travel documents.

Yeah.

VO: As well as forging documents and creating cartoons with which to amuse his fellow internees, the dashing Griffiths also put his artistic skills to good use in a rather more cunning way.

IAN: He actually started drawing types of aircraft that didn't exist, and then sending them in letters - which, of course, he knew would be opened - and describing the latest, you know, newfangled invention, which, of course, didn't exist, but, of course, it got the German intelligence machine working overtime.

VO: And he acted as a spy for British Military Intelligence whilst inside the camp.

IAN: So, through the sort of simple expedient of a few drawings and watercolors, he started to create confusion and havoc.

How fantastic.

Now, what Griffiths did was a very, very clever use of his talent.

VO: Near the end of the war, Griffiths led his fellow POWs out of the camp, to freedom.

He went on to be a test pilot, the first Marine ever to fly a helicopter, and served in the Korean War.

IAN: I think my favorite piece, which goes back to my own sort of childhood, is that he ends up running a tea shop in Chichester, and I just love the idea of going into a tea shop in Chichester, in the sort of 1970s, and you know, you're there with this guy that's done all this remarkable stuff.

VO: Cor, that is an incredible story!

And only one of thousands that could be told in this room.

But it's time for James to fly.

VO: Anita has also made her way to Southsea, where she is heading into Parmiters Antiques, to meet sharply dressed dealer Ian.

IAN: Hello.

Hello, I'm Anita.

Hello, Anita, welcome to Southsea.

VO: Oh, nice jacket, sir!

Ian's shop is stuffed to the gunwales with eye-catching and eccentric items, which plays right into Anita's wheelhouse.

ANITA: This is so visually exciting!

It all seems so...mad and unusual.

IAN: It's probably a bit like me.

ANITA: Is it?

VO: You two should get along swimmingly then.

Time for a browse, Anita.

VO: Shortly, she's fallen for something redolent of the great British seaside.

Isn't he adorable?

VO: Oh, not another one!

This is Puck the Magic Dragon.

VO: Ah.

Puff's brother, is he?

I think that this is a fairground animal.

ANITA: I think this is off one of the rides of maybe the 1940s or 1950s.

And it appeals to me, because it is so colorful.

I wonder how much it is.

VO: Best ask Ian.

ANITA: Ian.

IAN: Yes, Anita?

ANITA: I've fallen in love with Puck the Magic Dragon.

I suppose you want to know how much it is?

VO: She sure does.

IAN: Well, as I say, I'm asking 150, but I'm open to an offer on those?

ANITA: We can do a wee bit of bargaining.

IAN: Yeah, yeah.

Without falling out.

Yeah.

I won't fall out with you, Anita.

ANITA: That's good.

IAN: You're too nice.

Say I came in at...eh...£80.

How does that sound?

120.

100?

Go on, then.

Thank you very much.

VO: Cor, she's splashing her cash today!

But she'll have to be bold if she's gonna stand any chance against James.

Hello.

Not my type.

VO: No, but there's someone outside who take her fancy.

This is one of the things that I noticed when I came in at the beginning.

A footballer.

VO: It's a piece of a fairground attraction.

Ticket price is £120.

ANITA: I'm not the biggest of fans of football, but I'm a great fan of the fairground.

ANITA: I'm still feeling very, very playful.

I'm gonna have a go at that.

I think that's great.

ANITA: And he's get fabulous thighs.

VO: Yeah, footballer's.

ANITA: I want to ask you about something else.

OK. ANITA: What can you give him to me for?

IAN: Well, I'm...again, I'm asking... What am I asking?

120.

ANITA: 120.

Could I come in at 60?

IAN: Um...go on, give me 60 quid.

Oh, 60 quid?

That's wonderful.

Absolutely wonderful.

He can be my new boyfriend.

Yeah.

VO: Yes!

You've scored, Anita!

But she's got both her final items, and now everyone's all bought up.

VO: So it's time for both our auction aces to unveil their purchases.

I'm quite excited to see what you've got!

JAMES: OK, let's have a look.

Oops.

Right.

James, an interesting lot, but when I look at these drawings here, ANITA: I'm...I'm "drawn" to them!

JAMES: Well, have a look, have a look.

They look wonderful.

A Wyllie watercolor?

JAMES: Yeah.

It came from Wyllie's sketchbook.

ANITA: Wow.

JAMES: So they're...they're... You must've paid a lot of money for those, James.

JAMES: I got them for a very reasonable price.

ANITA: How much?

JAMES: £50 the two.

£50?!

James!

JAMES: For the two.

For a Wyllie watercolor?

JAMES: I know.

VO: She's impressed.

JAMES: That I loved, because it's so early.

How much?

What would you...what would you put on that?

80 quid?

Yeah 80/120, I thought.

Uh-huh.

Nine.

Oh!

You must've put on your very, very best smile.

It was a really cheap lot.

VO: Anita's turn now.

ANITA: I'm dying to show you my stuff!

You know James, we're on this wonderful south coast.

I've got this marvelous holiday, frivolous feeling.

JAMES: Oh, my goodness!

ANITA: But wait.

VO: And it continues.

JAMES: No way!

JAMES: Oh, my goodness!

ANITA: Colorful, James?

Holiday feeling?

You've lost it, completely.

VO: I think she has, you know.

How much?

ANITA: 28 for the wee horsey, so... That's cheap.

That's not bad.

60 for the footballer.

JAMES: Yeah.

ANITA: I paid 100 for him.

JAMES: Did you?!

ANITA: But I couldn't resist him.

Anita, that's brave.

VO: Or foolhardy.

James, it has been the most wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, fun.

I've enjoyed every minute.

I really have.

Come on, let's stroll into the sunset.

VO: You two are so sweet...when you're face to face.

Wyllie is just absolutely marvelous, on that type of marine drawing or watercolor or etching.

ANITA: So I think he'll do well on that.

No great surprises, no great thrills, but good solid work.

I think Anita's suffering from too much sun.

JAMES: What a mad lot!

ANITA: The little Night Rider horse, see them all the time.

ANITA: The little dragon, £100?

No.

VO: Don't mince your words, eh?!

VO: On this final leg of the road trip, Anita and James began in Dorchester, Dorset, and are now aiming for auction in grand old London town.

VO: Today's auction is in Wandsworth, on the banks of old father Thames, not too far from the iconic edifice of Battersea Power Station, which they passed earlier on this trip.

VO: They're driving to Criterion Auctions.

Hang on.

Something's different.

Have you changed your hair, Anita?

VO: Oh, no, silly me.

Unfortunately, James has been taken ill and won't be able to attend this auction.

ANITA: But fortunately I've got a stand-in!

He's a cracking guy and he looks a bit like James as well.

VO: He does a bit, actually.

VO: Our new friend is a bull mastiff, by the name of Nelson, but today he'll be playing the part of James Lewis.

At least Anita won't be lonely.

You never know what's going to happen until the hammer falls.

VO: And that's never been truer than today, Anita.

They're arriving at the auction house.

Look at that.

ANITA: Here we are, darling, here we are.

ANITA: OK, Jamesie - we've got stuff to sell.

ANITA: Here we go, kid, here we go.

Careful.

'Mon, darling.

There we are.

Hold on a sec, hold on a sec.

Right, wait a minute, wait a minute.

VO: He's keener than you are today, Anita!

VO: Today's auctioneer is Daniel Webster.

VO: Before this highly irregular sale kicks off, what does he make of Anita and James' buys?

ANITA: Good boy.

A few sort of fun pieces in there, with Puff the Magic Dragon and the footballer, so that should provide a bit of entertainment.

DANIEL: We've got a Wyllie painting in - a Wyllie sketch, rather.

Wyllie's always popular, so hopefully that should do OK. VO: Anita started this leg with £466.32.

She spent £260 exactly and has five lots in today's sale... VO: ..while James began with £1,204.54.

He spent £149 and also has five lots.

VO: The saleroom's looking a little sparse today but will be accepting bids over the telephone and online.

The sale's about to begin.

Sit!

There's a good girl.

VO: First up is James' 18th century shot flask.

Will it go off with a bang?

At £30, the money's with me at 30, and surely worth more.

DANIEL: At 30.

And five now.

At £35.

Are we all sure then at 35?

Yes!

VO: A tidy profit for James.

Who's a clever boy then?

Well done, darling, well done.

VO: Next, Anita's job lot of ivory purse and early 20th century leather bag.

At £30, are we sure?

35.

35, darling!

40.

You're not interested in this one.

VO: Course he's not - it's more of a lady's lot, to be fair.

£40.

Are we all sure for 40?

Yes!

VO: Anita's eye for vintage style sees her clear to a profit.

VO: Now it's James' set of four Sheffield plated bottle coasters.

We have 40.

And five got.

At 45, the money's here.

At 45.

DANIEL: All done and sure then at 45?

Well, that was short and sweet.

VO: Indeed it was.

Another £10 profit to James, whose attention seems to be wandering.

James!

James!

Hey, we listening?

You made a profit.

VO: Now it's Anita's job lot of toy soldiers.

Will they prove victorious?

At £30, someone, surely?

30 is bid.

And five.

40.

Come on, come on!

DANIEL: And five.

50.

50!

Ah!

Five.

60. five.

70.

75, back in.

80.

80's in the room.

£80!

85.

Are you listening?

DANIEL: 85.

Are we done for 85?

Yeah!

Did you hear that?

£85.

Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!

VO: I think he's jealous of your profit, Anita.

VO: Now it's James' Royal Signal Engineers toolbox.

We have 35.

40 now.

DANIEL: At £40 the money's with me.

And five, we're in the room.

DANIEL: At 45 and in the room, for a neat thing, at 45, are we done?

At 45, we'll sell then at 45.

VO: That manages to carve out a little profit for James.

See, you're getting all excited when it's your lots, and when it's my lots, you're lying down there and you don't give a damn.

I mean, what is this?

Don't you love me?

I'm cheering on your lots.

VO: Certainly are.

Next it is Anita's 1970s footballer, with the thighs.

50 if you like, surely.

50 is bid.

50 bid!

DANIEL: At 55.

60.

60 now.

At £60 we're away.

At £60... £60 and we're not away!

DANIEL: At 60 we'll sell.

Fair warning at 60.

Aw, £60.

£60.

VO: It makes what she paid for it.

But that's a loss, after auction costs are deducted, so a bit of an own goal.

VO: Let's hope Anita's next playful lot does better.

The tinplate rocking horse.

20 for the horse, someone, surely.

Rock away for £20.

20 is bid.

VO: You're the one that looks rocked, Anita.

At £20, and no money, are we done?

£20.

DANIEL: We'll sell then at 20.

VO: It refuses at the first fence.

Ha!

What a pity.

The bidders in this room today are not in a playful mood.

VO: Now it's James' vases, commemorating an early Crufts championship.

£50 for them?

At 50.

30 if you like.

At £30.

Oh... VO: Now you're interested.

Crufts!

DANIEL: 20 is bid.

At £20 now.

25, the internet.

DANIEL: 30, we're in the room.

DANIEL: £35, internet's money then.

£35 then.

£35.

That was a profit.

That was a profit, darling.

ANITA: That was a profit.

Well done.

Do you want a biscuit?

VO: You never offer me a biscuit!

Did you like that one?

Did you get excited?

VO: I don't think he's that fussed, actually.

VO: Now, all Anita's hopes rest on her dragon.

It was her bold buy, in attempt to chase James.

But will it pay off?

And £40 for it.

20?

Oh, 20!

DANIEL: 10 if you like someone, surely.

Oh, no!

10 is bid.

At £10 now.

ANITA: Oh, dear!

10, oh, no!

10!

DANIEL: At £10 now.

ANITA: He doesn't care!

DANIEL: At £10... VO: Oh, lordy!

DANIEL: We'll sell at £10 then.

ANITA: Oh... 10 quid!

Oh!

VO: Well, that went up in flames, didn't it!

That was that was tough to take.

Tough to take.

VO: Certainly on your own.

Now James' last lot of the day, his two William Wyllie pictures.

And 100's bid.

ANITA: 100's bid.

DANIEL: And 10.

He's doubled the money already.

20.

30.

40.

ANITA: 140 DANIEL: 50.

150... £150.00 DANIEL: 150.

Are we all done?

150, we'll sell then at 150.

The hammer's down.

£150.

£150, darling.

VO: They sail away.

Well done, James.

Well done, darling.

Well done.

VO: So a terrible pity that the real James had to miss his last auction but he ends this road trip triumphant and swimming in lashings of lolly nevertheless.

What a result, eh?

VO: Anita began this final leg with £466.32, and after auction costs she made an unfortunate loss of £83.70, leaving her with a total of £382.62.

Just lay off the dragons in future, Anita.

VO: But James has beaten all comers.

He began this leg with £1,204.54.

He made a smart profit of of £105.20 and ends the road trip high on the hog, with £1,309.74.

Well, I'm doggone!

VO: Anita may be Cinderella to James' Rockefeller, but if there's one thing this trip's proven it's that there's a lot of affection betwixt these two.

Aw!

VO: Anita's shown she buys with her romantic heart.

ANITA: Too exotic?

VO: While James has displayed his eagle eye for profit.

Give him a wee clap!

BOTH: Yes!

VO: But they've supported each other through all the highs and lows.

VO: Bon voyage you two.

Don't forget to write, eh?

VO: Next time on the Antiques Road Trip, we have two new traveling treasure hunters - Mark Stacey and Will Axon.

WILL: You're a man!

You're naughty man, Mr Stacey.

MARK: Am I a naughty man?

Oh.

WILL: You're a naughty man.

VO: Mark will be unveiling his new look.

MARK: But I don't think it's me, really, do you?

VO: And Will makes his Road Trip debut.

It all seems a lot easier when you're watching it on the telly.

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