VO: The nation's favorite celebrities... Oh, that is good.

VO: ..paired up with an expert...

I like that.

VO: ..and a classic car.

Feeling confident?

Er... VO: Their mission?

To scour Britain for antiques.

(GLASS SMASHES) Look at you.

You're really good!

The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.

(GASPS) Is it a find?

VO: But it's no easy ride.

XAND VAN TULLEKEN: Hey, come on!

VO: Who will find a hidden gem?

(MIMICS DUCK) Take me with you.

VO: Take the biggest risk?

Have you got a tow truck?

VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?

I might have bought rubbish.

Who knows?

VO: There will be worthy winners... Yay!

Whoo!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Come on.

Someone else!

Someone!

VO: Put your pedal to the metal!

Aah!

VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: Here's something to get your motor running.

Two stars.

One car.

SHAUN: What a fantastic day, Anne, for looking for antiques, eh?

What do you think?

It should be lovely, yes.

I mean, it's an even nicer day for just driving very slowly around, looking at the flowers.

VO: Yes, it's the battle of the brainiacs today, as we're joined by two of the feared Chasers from popular teatime quiz show, The Chase.

Anne "The Governess" Hegarty, and Shaun "The Dark Destroyer" Wallace.

SHAUN: What do you know about antiques, anyway, Governess?

Oh, not a great deal.

My knowledge of antiques, according to my brother, is to look in my wardrobe, you'll see a load of antiques in there, I tell ya!

VO: They're gliding through the countryside in a 1980 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II.

Nice!

SHAUN: This is the first time I've ever been in a Rolls-Royce.

ANNE: It's rather fabulous.

SHAUN: It's fantastic.

And to be honest, Anne's doing such a fantastic job.

I should actually be sitting in the back, snoozing, to be fair.

I don't know where her hat is.

Where's your hat?

VO: This pair's positively potty about quizzes.

Before turning pro, Anne was a journalist and regular on the TV quiz circuit, and has starred on The Chase since 2010.

ANNE: There you go, mate.

SHAUN: Oh, that is superb driving.

ROO: Are you sure you haven't driven a Roller before?

ANNE: I haven't.

SHAUN: No?

VO: As well as being one of the original Chasers since 2009, Shaun is a practicing barrister, and former Mastermind champion.

Well, the only thing I'm really worried about, you know, with my nickname the Dark Destroyer, that I don't go into the antique shop and destroy arts.

Yes.

You know, I've got two left hands sometimes, so I'll be a bit careful.

VO: Time to meet their opposite numbers.

Road trip grandees James Braxton and Margie Cooper.

MARGIE: You're driving very well, James.

You're not frightening me at all.

Thank you, Margie.

I'm merely here to serve.

VO: Ha ha!

These two are racing around in a 1970 4.2 liter Jaguar E-Type, en route to meeting their celebrity partners.

I watch them all the time.

JAMES: Do you?

MARGIE: Yeah.

They're amazing.

Well you're a lady of leisure, you see?

Excuse me, I'm just about to watch the news, and they are amazing.

I mean, their knowledge.

SHAUN: We're here to have a good time, but ultimately, I'm here to beat you, Governess.

Well, yeah, as long as I don't sort of actually make some really stupid decisions.

The Governess never makes stupid decisions.

Oh, yes, she does.

She just doesn't admit it.

MARGIE: I think, James, they're gonna be so competitive.

JAMES: They are.

It's gonna be about winning.

MARGIE: Battle.

JAMES: Anyway, we've just got to buy some really good stuff.

VO: That's the name of the game, James.

SHAUN: May the best competitor win, my dear.

Yes.

And may that be me.

SHAUN: Yeah.

See, see.

That's the Governess coming to the fore.

Told you.

VO: Fighting talk, eh?

That's what I like to hear.

This antiques escapade takes place mostly in the Home Counties, culminating with an auction in Lincolnshire.

First up, Wendover.

This picturesque Buckinghamshire town is known as the gateway to the Chilterns, and has held a weekly market since 1464.

After depositing her fellow quizzer, Anne's arrived at Antiques at Wendover.

Housed in a Grade II listed Tudor house, it's packed to its 16th century rafters with treasures, and there's even a resident ghost.

Anne's expert, James, has got here a bit earlier.

JAMES: Hello, Anne.

ANNE: James, hello.

JAMES: Very good to meet you.

ANNE: Lovely to meet you.

Do you collect any antiques, Anne?

Not especially, but I quite like, I quite like ceramics.

Yeah.

There's a little treasure trove of Moorcroft round the corner, I noticed.

JAMES: You spied it.

ANNE: I spotted it, yes.

So you've got your eye in already.

Well, yeah, it's sort of quite little pieces of Moorcroft.

JAMES: Yeah, yeah.

So what is our aim here?

The aim is to make a profit.

And to beat Shaun.

Exactly.

And as the Governess, I'd imagine some steely haggling from you.

I hope so.

I will give my coldest Governess stare.

JAMES: (LAUGHS) Excellent!

Good.

Come on, show me this Moorcroft.

Let's do that.

VO: Meanwhile, Shaun has made his way to Berkhamsted.

The red Jag out front means Margie is already here, and this shop, Home & Colonial, is the place he needs to be.

Established for over 25 years, and specializing in interiors, there are more than 35 specialist dealers displaying across five floors.

So it's big!

SHAUN: Margie, the antiques aficionado!

There you are.

How you doing?

The Dark Destroyer!

I'll try not to destroy anything whilst I'm here.

MARGIE: Don't, be careful.

SHAUN: I've got to be.

MARGIE: Are you into antiques?

I am.

But according to my brother, if you look at my wardrobe, there's loads of antiques in there.

VO: (CHUCKLES) I've heard that one before!

Well, we're not looking for vintage clothes.

No, we're not, actually.

We're not looking for vintage clothes.

We are looking for really good items, which you can sell at a profit, because I'm telling you now... MARGIE: Yeah?

The Governess, although we get on really well, she's out to beat me.

MARGIE: Is she?

And I'm telling you, I'm not having her put one over on me.

MARGIE: (GASPS) Pressure's on, then.

Let's start.

Let's go.

VO: Now, both our pairs are matched up.

It's worth mentioning they each have 400 smackeroos to spend.

SHAUN: Marge.

MARGIE: Yeah?

What about this?

Oh, I took a cursory glance at the price.

Look at it.

SHAUN: (GASPS) VO: £595.

You can't afford it.

Alright, forget it.

ANNE: (RINGS BELL) That was loud.

VO: Ding, ding.

Round one.

Anne, I've seen a Chinese item.

MARGIE: Mm-hm?

Can we have a closer look?

VO: An incense burner.

Bronze, I guess.

Dive in.

Dive in, Anne.

Indeed.

I think you would just want to pick it up.

Feel the weight first.

Does it feel heavy?

MARGIE: Ooh, it does.

It does feel heavy.

JAMES: Oh, that's a good thing.

It does feel heavy.

MARGIE: I'm assuming that's actual damage.

JAMES: What?

Where?

ANNE: There.

Oh, it could be foundry, because I think they're cast in sand.

JAMES: Aren't they?

ANNE: Are they?

OK. And then they're finished with a good old-fashioned file.

ANNE: Oh, right.

JAMES: Because brass is obviously softer than steel.

ANNE: Sure.

Yes.

JAMES: And I think the decoration may have been done quite rudimentarily.

MARGIE: Mm-hm.

JAMES: With a hammer and a sharp point.

ANNE: But the damage to the little feet doesn't show.

JAMES: I'll tell you what I like about it.

It's unusual for its shape.

I like the fact that it's a sphere.

JAMES: I don't think this is terribly early.

I think it's 19th century.

JAMES: It has a look of clutter about it, doesn't it?

JAMES: You know, every surface is worked, isn't it?

ANNE: Yes.

What's the price tag say on it?

88.

Now, with something at 88, go low, below the knees, OK?

I think that's a potential.

Shall we just pop it down for a bit... ANNE: OK. ..and shall we carry on looking around?

ANNE: Let's do that.

JAMES: You never know.

That could be £40, £50 for all we know.

ANNE: Ooft!

JAMES: That's a lovely thing about the antiques trade.

ANNE: Mm-hm.

JAMES: It has no fixed prices.

JAMES: Shall we carry on going around?

ANNE: Yeah.

I don't think we've been into that room.

ANNE: Let's do that.

VO: One for the Governess.

How's the Dark Destroyer getting on, 11 miles away in Berkhamsted?

MARGIE: Now, look at that.

Is that sweet?

Is that not great?

Look at that.

MARGIE: It's an antique... it's obviously a fire surround, but it's probably a salesman's sample.

OK.

So you would take that in, in an attempt to try and sell the real sized one.

Gorgeous little fire irons.

I mean, you try making those.

SHAUN: Mm.

MARGIE: Missing the poker.

Would that make a difference?

To be honest with you, I don't think that's that important.

I mean, that is the... That looks fantastic.

It's a good heavy weight.

SHAUN: Yeah.

It'll be 100 years old.

MARGIE: And, you know, it's just a really nice thing.

Somebody won't be able to resist that.

So what's the price on that?

75.

SHAUN: (INHALES SHARPLY) MARGIE: Which is... (LAUGHS) If we can get him down to around 60-odd.

Yeah.

Then I think it might be a purchase worth exploring.

MARGIE: Do you like it?

SHAUN: Yeah, I do.

MARGIE: I like it.

I'll have to use my powers as the Dark Destroyer.

MARGIE: I'm gonna put it back for the time being.

SHAUN: Yeah, OK. VO: That's one iron in the fire for both pairs now.

Have Anne and James found anything else?

James, have a look at this.

JAMES: What's the book on, Anne?

ANNE: It's about Queen Victoria.

Although there isn't exactly a date, there are enough clues that makes me think she'd literally just died.

JAMES: OK. And this had been produced to mark her death.

VO: Queen Victoria died on 22nd January, 1901, after 63 years and 216 days on the throne.

Only Queen Elizabeth II reigned Britain for longer.

What is the binding like, Anne?

JAMES: Because a lot is in the binding.

It doesn't look sort of particularly cracked or damaged.

It's a bit fluffy up here.

JAMES: So it looks as though you've got a red Morocco spine, doesn't it, there.

So it's not too cracked.

And then the faces, the covers, are in a gilt tooled linen cloth.

JAMES: That's linen.

ANNE: Mm-hm.

I like the gilt tooling.

JAMES: "Her Life and Empire."

ANNE: Mm-mm.

It's a rather nice looking book.

ANNE: It is.

JAMES: What's the price of it?

It says £15.

So by my calculation, that price is on the right side.

JAMES: What about the other item we saw?

The incense burner.

The incense, well, I'd like that too.

Can we have that too?

JAMES: Would you?

ANNE: Yeah.

Of course you can.

It's all about you, Anne, OK?

ANNE: Yeah!

The only thing I would caution, we can't do much on the price of that, but I think we could possibly do something on the orb.

JAMES: You like that?

ANNE: That's good, yeah.

Let's take it to the counter.

ANNE: Let's do that.

JAMES: You never know.

VO: Mike is the gentleman they need to speak to, in the rather snazzy shirt as well.

I'm intrigued by this.

There isn't anything...

There's not an actual date of publication.

I would think 1902, 1903.

Right.

Well, we'd be happy to have this at £15.

Yes.

We were also interested in the incense burner.

MIKE: Yeah.

ANNE: Weren't you, James?

JAMES: Yeah.

Hopefully we can do a deal on that, Mike, can we?

MARGIE: We'd be happy to do a good deal on that.

Could you do... would 40 show you a profit?

£40?

£40 shows a small profit, but that's OK, because we want you guys to win.

JAMES: Oh, isn't that kind?

ANNE: Oh, thank you!

Oh, I like you.

VO: Cracking stuff.

That's two lots in the bag for £55, leaving them £345 in the kitty.

JAMES: I think we've thrown the mantle down to Shaun, there.

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: Off we hopski.

JAMES: Don't want to take any loose sculptures or garden urns with us, do we?

VO: Ha-ha, indeed!

Watch the paint work.

Now back to Berko, and Shaun and Margie.

Now, this looks interesting.

Very interesting.

SHAUN: Let's have a look.

VO: What's that, then?

Now, this is more like it.

French wine glasses, four set, £65.

With my negotiating skills, I can get that down.

VO: Loving the confidence, Shaun.

Maybe we should get Margie over and see what she thinks.

Ah, a bit of glitter and glam.

No, I quite like the weight of this, actually, and I like the design.

Look, you've got the gold trimming around the edge.

MARGIE: Yeah, lovely.

So how much are they?

SHAUN: £65 for four.

MARGIE: Hmm.

SHAUN: What do you think?

You're not influenced by the lovely lighting, are you?

SHAUN: No, I'm not.

MARGIE: Are you sure?

I'm influenced by the design, I'm influenced by the sort of weight.

I must say, they are very nice.

SHAUN: Yeah.

MARGIE: Very, very nice.

What age do you reckon these are, Marge, without... What do you reckon?

Early part of the 20th century, I should think.

Well, I think that's gonna be quite attractive.

SHAUN: And let's see if we can actually, you know, get the price down.

MARGIE: Right, OK. SHAUN: Yeah?

MARGIE: Right.

SHAUN: OK. Let me just put this back, because although I'm known as the Dark Destroyer, I don't want to destroy it.

I just want to see you happy.

SHAUN: Oh, isn't that nice!

VO: Best track down Tony, the proprietor, and see if you can strike a deal.

SHAUN: Tony.

TONY: Shaun.

Can I call you Tone?

You can call me Tone if you want.

That's cool.

So, both Marge and I have made a decision.

TONY: A joint decision?

SHAUN: A joint decision, actually.

We've looked at some wonderful items, actually.

SHAUN: What we settled on, right, is the brass fender, which I think is fantastic.

VO: Ticket, £75.

SHAUN: And the wine glasses.

VO: Priced at 65.

So what I was hoping for... TONY: (INHALES) Ooh!

..is possibly, for the two items, a ton?

VO: £100, steep discount.

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to do like they do on most programs and say "because it's you", I'm gonna say because of me, 40, 60, 100 quid, we're fine.

Great.

TONY: And the dealers will be happy as well.

I think we've got a deal here, mate.

So what I'm gonna do... That's looking good.

I love cash.

SHAUN: Here's the old Johnny Cash.

VO: Well done, Shaun.

That leaves you with a nice round figure of £300 to go on with.

MARGIE: Yeah, OK. That's turned out OK. Yeah, that's not too bad.

I'm really happy with that.

MARGIE: Good.

VO: Let's scram - tout suite.

Back on the road, and James and the Roller are navigating the back lanes en route to their next stop.

JAMES: Thank you.

ANNE: Nice big place.

JAMES: Oh, lovely.

God bless you.

Lovely people, aren't they, here?

JAMES: I think the drivers are catching sight of you, and they're quickly engaging reverse.

I think...

I think the Governess extends beyond the studio.

I don't think they can even see me.

VO: They're making their way to Piccotts End.

A quaint village in the Hertfordshire countryside.

They're meeting Karen Murphy, a heritage preservationist at an unassuming cottage with a hidden past.

In the 1950s, former owner Arthur Lindley uncovered one of its 16th century secrets.

ANNE: Gosh.

JAMES: Wow.

JAMES: Very impressive, isn't it?

ANNE: Do we have any idea who painted this?

I mean, was it the people in this house?

What sort of people lived in this house?

Well, unfortunately, we don't have any surviving records of who exactly it was who built the house, but it would have been something like a wealthy merchant.

KAREN: To have painted such a highly Catholic painting at this time is indicative, really, of at least the view of one member of the middling classes at the time.

Although the Reformation was sort of forced on the people by Henry VIII's dictation, clearly not everybody was welcoming it.

And this is a very political propaganda statement of allegiance to the Catholic Church.

ANNE: Wow.

I've never seen anything like this before.

KAREN: No.

It's a unique survival.

VO: This house was once a hostel on an ancient route of pilgrimage, and the murals were created just before the Reformation, a time of unprecedented upheaval in Tudor England.

As King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, making himself head of a new Protestant church, the paintings here were condemned as Roman idolatry.

So you'll notice how the faces have been scratched off here.

Mm-Mm.

That would have been during the Reformation, and we have this sort of view of Henry VIII's marauding soldiers rampaging and destroying imagery.

But here it's just been a really gentle defacing.

KAREN: They've literally ticked the box of having defaced the paintings.

But it's interesting how, even though they've removed the power of the imagery by taking the face off, we can still identify who this is by the symbols which are attributed to each of the saints.

How can we date it to 1527?

Have you found a date or something?

KAREN: It's really fortunate, actually, because we carried out a dendrochronology survey.

ANNE: Oh, looking at the rings on the trees.

KAREN: Looking at the tree ring growth on this particular beam at the bottom.

ANNE: The beams, uh-huh.

And we know that this beam comes from an oak tree that was felled in the summer of 1527.

Right.

So we can be really close on that date.

We know it was 1527.

KAREN: We know it was painted then, and we know that it was only very shortly after, in the 1530s, that it would have been covered up, when the Reformation takes hold.

VO: The murals are the only complete pre-Reformation religious wall paintings in a domestic setting left surviving in the country.

Hiding them was a small but dangerous act of rebellion in Tudor England.

ANNE: How long have these paintings been known about?

Well, we were really fortunate that they were discovered by Arthur Lindley in 1953.

At that point there would have been a floor.

KAREN: So this would have been a little bedroom upstairs.

Right.

And Arthur Lindley and his friends had had a drink, and they were trying to decide what to do with the cottages, and he pulls at a little corner of the wallpaper... ANNE: As you do when you're a bit drunk.

KAREN: (LAUGHS) ..and the whole wall of paper came away in one piece... ANNE: Wow.

JAMES: Wow.

KAREN: ..to reveal these paintings behind.

They'd been covered up with a layer of linen, and six subsequent layers of wallpaper, and they'd been hidden there for over 400 years.

VO: Nobody knows who exactly painted the murals, but they were likely inspired by woodcut prints circulated at the time.

This technique of illustration can be replicated with modern materials, such as lino, to give us an insight into how they were made.

KAREN: That looks great.

ANNE: Is that enough?

It's interesting how even just putting the black ink on, the lines come out.

ANNE: Mm.

KAREN: Piece of paper?

Yes, please.

Thank you.

ANNE: OK. ANNE: And it's sort of a rose.

KAREN: That's a really good first effort.

Well done.

Thank you very much.

Definitely a Tudor rose.

In a smudgy, black-and-white sort of way!

ANNE: Great.

Well, you're welcome to take it as a souvenir of your day here.

Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

I've had a lovely time.

What a fascinating place.

Thank you.

It's been lovely having you here.

I've really appreciated it.

VO: Hidden in the dark for centuries, the murals can now be preserved for future generations and be in the light once more.

Several miles away, Shaun and Margie are in the Jag, making tracks to their next shop.

Well, Marge, the first thing I've got to apologize is for the choice of car.

I don't know what possessed me to choose an E-Type Jag.

My knees are up to my chin, you know what I mean?

MARGIE: Yes, they are not easy to get in and out of.

SHAUN: Oh, say that again.

SHAUN: There was a reason why I chose the Jaguar.

Because it was my winning question on Mastermind.

Was it really?

SHAUN: Yeah, they asked me, "In 1922, William Lyons founded which famous car company?"

And I remembered it was Jaguar.

So I do apologize.

Well I... Apology accepted.

SHAUN: You know, so as you're rubbing the ointment on your hip as we both get out... (MARGIE AND SHAUN LAUGH) ..you know the reason why I chose the jaguar, I'm sorry!

VO: Yes, lovely motor, but not known for its legroom.

These two are on their way to Markyate, where they'll find Retrovation.

MARGIE: (CHUCKLES) Oh, no!

I'm out!

SHAUN: Oh!

Ooh!

Ooh!

(MAKES CRACKING SOUNDS) MARGIE: (LAUGHS) Did you hear my knees there?

MARGIE: I did.

SHAUN: Eh?

VO: Open by appointment only and based on a working farm, shop owner Dawn has curated a regular cornucopia of collectables for our Chase celebrity, and his sidekick expert.

MARGIE: Ooh!

This looks interesting.

SHAUN: Yeah.

Retrovation.

MARGIE: Yeah.

SHAUN: Must be a portmanteau word.

SHAUN: What about this?

MARGIE: Well, that's my subject.

But...

..I don't wish to be unkind, they're silver, but they're ordinary.

SHAUN: OK. Where's the, you know, there's just...

I mean, there's 12, which is...

There's the sugar tongs.

A set of 12 is nice, but they're just... And who's using those these days?

In my posh house?

No?

VO: No ticket price.

Come on, chaps.

There's plenty more shop to explore.

SHAUN: More glassware, Marge.

Oh, look, two wooden legs.

I can get inside the E-Type Jag!

SHAUN: Marge, eureka!

MARGIE: You found something?

SHAUN: I think so.

This looks quite interesting.

SHAUN: Well, we're looking at some acts of parliament passed in the Tudor times.

First year of the reign of Edward VI, so that was 1547.

MARGIE: Yeah, that's the one who died.

SHAUN: Till the end of the reign of King Charles II, which was 1685.

This is up your street, innit?

It's up my street, but the whole purpose is to see if we can try and make a profit in relation to this, and I know it's a niche market, but I'm sure people would be really interested to know that... MARGIE: Mm.

SHAUN: ..you know, all the laws stretching back from 1547 to 1734.

Admittedly, the spine of this book isn't in great condition, a bit like my knees, but what would you say?

Yeah.

Er, they've got to be under 50 for the two.

MARGIE: I'm worried, but it's always a worry.

VO: No price tag on the books either, but could be worth a punt.

MARGIE: Right, I've given you long enough.

Have you got to the end yet?

SHAUN: Ha-ha-ha!

SHAUN: Look, there's a sentence in here by Edward VI, says that if you take the mickey out of a Chaser, it's hung, drawn and quartered, alright?

So I've got my eye on you.

Right, more spoons, yeah?

Hold on.

Weren't you dismissive about the spoons about 10 minutes ago?

12 spoons and sugar tongs, they could be 60, 70 quid, so that's no good to us.

But you've got another dozen here.

You've got two little golfing ones there.

If she does a parcel, and it's cheap enough, all of a sudden, I'm interested in spoons.

MARGIE: Yeah?

Now you're thinking like an expert.

MARGIE: Yeah.

VO: That's why they pay Margie the big bucks.

MARGIE: Now, they're not in the right box.

SHAUN: What type of spoons are they then?

MARGIE: These are little... these have been probably given as a prize.

And they've got lovely little...

They're really nice, nice finial, and they've got crossed golf clubs.

See the quality of that.

MARGIE: It's quality, and there's two of them.

But they did put... Ah... Is it different initials?

Different... Yeah, DDGC.

Don't know him.

Dark Destroyer.

MARGIE: DDGC.

SHAUN: Dark Destroyer.

MARGIE: Dark Destroyer... SHAUN: Great Chaser.

Hey-hey!

We'll have 'em.

It's destined in the stars, isn't it?

If she can give us a good price... SHAUN: OK. MARGIE: ..we'll have the lot.

If we get a good price, plus this?

Yeah, well, we'll just see what she says.

Alright, then.

OK. You're not sold on this, are you?

I'm just worried about the condition and, you know...

Ultimately, you're the expert.

Yeah.

SHAUN: If this was a quizzing competition, then I'd be in charge.

MARGIE: Yeah.

SHAUN: OK?

I know.

All you do is give me pressure.

You thrive on pressure, Marge.

No, I don't.

VO: Time to approach the front desk and see what Dawn can do.

MARGIE: Dawn.

DAWN: Hi.

You've got an interesting place here.

We're enjoying ourselves, aren't we?

We certainly are.

MARGIE: But he keeps on picking these spoons out, right?

DAWN: Right.

And, you know, I'm not that thrilled with them, but if we could get a little parcel... What's the best?

Erm, I'm not really a silver dealer.

Yeah.

So I've picked them up, and I really want you to win... MARGIE: Yeah.

DAWN: ..so I can do...

I can do them for 30 quid for all three.

MARGIE: That's...

Happy?

SHAUN: More than happy.

MARGIE: Yeah, right.

DAWN: Brilliant.

MARGIE: Thank you, Dawn.

Great, so we'll put the money down.

Right, but what about the books?

SHAUN: Now, I really love those books cuz, obviously, because of my legal training and things like that.

Would you do two for 40?

Because it's you, Shaun, yes.

Do you want them?

SHAUN: Yeah.

MARGIE: OK.

They are very special.

And I think they're gonna make us a profit.

I hope so.

I really want you to win.

VO: That's £70 in total.

Shaun and Margie will group all that silverware into one lot, leaving them with £230 still to spend.

SHAUN: Well done, my girl.

Anyway... MARGIE: With the wind behind us, we're in with a chance.

SHAUN: OK. Home, Marge!

SHAUN: Yeah, let's go.

(CHUCKLES) VO: It's been a fruitful day, but time to call it quits.

So, if you were a Chaser, what do you think your name would be?

Er, probably 3C, cos that was my academic prowess.

MARGIE: She's going quite well, this old girl, isn't she?

SHAUN: Yeah, she's not bad.

You know what I mean, eh?

It's the first time my chins and knees have had an intimate relationship, in a long time, since I was a little kid.

SHAUN: Wow, eh?

I'm never gonna choose a car like this again, eh?

VO: I'm sure it'll grow on you.

Why don't you sleep on it?

Nighty night.

VO: The second day of hunting antiques, and our Chasers are back in the Roller.

SHAUN: What lovely countryside, eh?

ANNE: It is nice.

SHAUN: Yeah.

I'm sort of concentrating on...

I know you are, I know you are.

..not running the Roller into anything.

"Argh!

We're in a ditch!"

ANNE: Yeah.

VO: Hold her steady, Anne.

So, did you have a good day yesterday?

I had a fantastic time.

Marge is brilliant.

SHAUN: The only downside with yesterday was the E-Type Jag, which, you know...

It's really tiny.

I saw my knees and my chin connect for the very first time.

ANNE: Yeah, yeah.

VO: Speaking of which...

Funny driving position today.

I'm not happy about this.

Careful!

MARGIE: Oh, God.

VO: Let's check in with the sporty red number and our two experts.

JAMES: It's like...it's like...

It's like trying to drive a car in a La-Z-Boy.

VO: Deary me.

It's a British motoring icon, you know.

JAMES: So, Margie, what is Shaun like?

Oh, he's absolutely... lovely man.

MARGIE: All the time, his mind is in quiz mode.

MARGIE: How's Anne?

JAMES: Yeah, very good.

She is a huge fount of knowledge, dates, everything.

They're very, very good friends, but they're naturally competitive.

JAMES: Yeah.

VO: Sounds like a good time to compare purchases.

OK, let's have a look.

Well, here it is, the big reveal.

SHAUN: Voila!

ANNE: Giant books.

ANNE: Why am I not surprised?

What are the books?

This book was printed in 1734... ANNE: OK. SHAUN: ..right, and it deals with all the acts... ANNE: It's upside down.

(LAUGHS) And it deals with all the acts of parliament... Oh, wow.

SHAUN: ..from... ANNE: Edward VI... SHAUN: ..Edward VI... ANNE: ..to Charles II.

SHAUN: ..to Charles II.

SHAUN: These are my sort of self-indulgent purchases... ANNE: Yeah, yeah.

SHAUN: Which, as I say, I managed to actually twist Marge's arm round to her neck.

VO: Shaun certainly wasn't holding back... SHAUN: If this was a quizzing competition, then I'd be in charge.

VO: ..splashing out £170.

He also bought a set of four mid-20th-century French wine glasses, a salesman's miniature brass fender and fire irons, and a job lot of silver cutlery... SHAUN: Hey-hey!

MARGIE: We'll have 'em.

VO: ..while Anne... Hello.

VO: ..purchased just two items, spending only £55 from her kitty.

SHAUN: So, Anne, what did you buy?

ANNE: Well, this is my self-indulgent purchase.

SHAUN: I like that.

ANNE: (GROANS) It's "VRI - Her Life and Empire."

No actual publication date, but we think it was maybe 1902-03.

ANNE: And then this, this was James's pick, and it's a really quite heavy bronze Chinese incense burner.

You can take the top off, and you kind of put the incense in there.

It's small enough to be really quite cute.

And how much did you buy that for?

ANNE: That was on for 88, and he offered them 40, and they said OK. SHAUN: Pretty good.

ANNE: So that's what we got.

Alright.

You know what I'm doing right now?

ANNE: What?

Up there's a white flag of surrender.

VO: Let's not be premature, Shaun.

There's plenty more shopping to do.

After dropping off Shaun and collecting Jimbo, Anne is heading to Hertford, the county seat of Hertfordshire.

It's where we'll find Rossi's Attic.

JAMES: Another shop, another dollar.

JAMES: Right, come on, Anne.

Get in there.

Let's have a look in here.

VO: Spread across two floors, this family-owned shop has trinkets and treasures galore.

JAMES: Lovely and warm.

ANNE: Yeah.

Hi.

Hello.

Lovely to meet you.

I'm Anne.

I'm Earle.

JAMES: Hello, Earle.

EARLE: Hello.

JAMES: Hi.

Shall we start at the back first?

ANNE: OK. JAMES: Let's see.

VO: Anne still has a decent wedge of cash to spend, but it's all about finding the right item to splash out on.

ANNE: Evolution of man.

I'm not gonna make any gags.

Too easy, too cheap.

VO: Now, that's what I call natural selection, heh-heh.

What else is there?

Oh, but is there a dead body inside?

Yes and no.

VO: Heh!

Moving swiftly on... What's this down the bottom?

"Japanese satsuma bowl".

ANNE: £42.

That's pretty.

I wouldn't mind having a closer look at that.

VO: Better track down your sidekick and get some expert advice.

ANNE: James?

JAMES: Yeah?

What do you think of this?

So, it's all about the age with these sort of things.

Mm-hm.

JAMES: So it looks like Japanese satsuma to me.

Yeah, that's what it says on here, yeah.

Can you turn it over for me?

Do you think it's got a bit of age?

ANNE: I mean, I don't know how to tell.

I notice there aren't any English words, which makes me think it wasn't meant for the export market.

JAMES: Yeah.

And it's got a sort of seal mark, hasn't it?

JAMES: It's been signed in a way.

Yes, I don't know what these mean.

JAMES: Yeah.

And what I'm also reassured by, do you see some of the gilding around the foot rim... ANNE: Sort of rubbed off a bit.

JAMES: ..has rubbed off.

ANNE: Yes.

JAMES: And wear is often an indicator... ANNE: Right, that it's real.

JAMES: ..of age, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, mm-hm.

And Anne, do you want to hold it in one hand and just tap it?

Is it sound?

You want to sort of ring it like a bell.

ANNE: (TAPS BOWL) That sounds alright, doesn't it?

ANNE: Hmm.

It doesn't sound dead, does it?

Yeah, it's not sort of going "dnng" like a cracked bell.

JAMES: And the figure's quite well painted.

I can see some of the reserves... ANNE: I think so.

Have a look.

JAMES: That's quite an interesting scene, isn't it?

What's the price on it?

ANNE: Er, it's... dub-a-dum... ..£42.

OK. Anne, well done.

Top, top marks.

You know, I've looked around here, and I haven't found anything to get my juices going, but that does.

Well, let's see if we can do a deal.

Let's do that, yeah.

JAMES: OK. Off we hop.

VO: Watch out, Earle.

Here comes the Governess.

ANNE: So, Earle, this is a pretty thing.

You didn't get it from Japan?

EARLE: No.

ANNE: No.

Someone brought it in?

EARLE: Yes, yes.

So, would you take 20 quid?

Oh, that's my lady!

Look, the Governess steaming in there!

JAMES: (CHUCKLES) We'll take 25.

25.

OK, 25.

ANNE: That seems reasonable.

Well done, you.

Well done, you.

VO: She learned from the best, James.

But that's still a generous discount from Earle.

Thank you.

JAMES: Well done, Anne.

ANNE: Thank you.

JAMES: Very good.

JAMES: Thank you, Earle.

EARLE: Thank you.

That little purchase leaves Anne with £320 in her locker.

JAMES: Well, well done, Anne.

ANNE: Hmm.

Thank you.

JAMES: Well done.

JAMES: A-plus for finding it, and an A-plus for haggling.

That was very impressive.

VO: She's a straight-A student, James.

Time to vamoose.

Shaun and Margie are taking a little detour.

The next stop for this pair is the Hertfordshire market town Hitchin.

They're here to find out how a local legend established the world's first football museum.

Matthew Platt, the museum's assistant curator, knows the score, and will explain more.

SHAUN: And this must be the main man, Matt.

MATT: Very nice to meet you, Shaun.

Nice to meet you, Margie.

MATT: I'm ready to show you some amazing football objects, if you want to come and follow me.

After you, Marge.

VO: Football memorabilia is a big business these days.

Diego Maradona's "hand of God" match-worn shirt recently sold for over £7 million.

Heh!

But that wasn't always the case.

In the 1950s, one man, Hitchin Town FC general secretary and superfan Vic Wayling, realized that a lot of footballing memorabilia was being lost or forgotten.

So Matt, this is a fantastic display, actually.

Tell me about the museum itself and its origins.

The Football Museum of Hitchin, known by various names, was formed by Vic Wayling, who was the secretary of Hitchin Town Football Club.

He came to his position in 1952 and set about looking for objects originally to do with the history of Hitchin Town.

What motivated him to actually begin a museum?

So Vic Wayling had both a love of football, and love of his team.

MATT: A well-connected man in the football world, he sent out these messages asking for objects.

He got Hitchin Town-related objects, like at the side of me here, and also objects from many other places.

He received lots of mail, and there is a letter talking about how his postman was weighted down with football objects, and in the end it ballooned out into what we think is the world's first football museum.

MATT: The earliest object behind me just here is 1873.

And the collection also ranges geographically.

So just near there is a pennant flag of Dynamo Moscow football team.

VO: Originally kept in a glass display cabinet, eventually Vic's collection grew to number over 1,000 artefacts and began to include items of such significance that a dedicated building was needed to house it all.

Matt, the pitch is in good nick, innit, eh?

Definitely.

Welcome to Top Field, the amazing home of Hitchin Town Football Club.

MATT: As you know, Shaun, they were participants in the first season of the FA Cup.

SHAUN: Yeah.

MATT: 1871.

So the reason I brought you both here wasn't just to soak up the rays, but this was the second location of the football museum, and it was here from '66 to about '75.

MATT: So just in time for the World Cup.

Vic Wayling, ever thinking ahead, got it exactly right.

SHAUN: Absolutely.

So, Shaun, you mentioned that the pitch looked quite inviting.

I think some of the players would quite like to have you over there.

What, with my two left feet?

MATT: Oh, yes.

SHAUN: Alright, we'll try.

MATT: Oh, yes.

VO: Vic passed away in 1975, but his legacy lives on.

He loved football, and wanted its history to be remembered, instead of discarded.

VO: Now, then, making his debut... (NOISE OF CHEERING CROWDS) VO: ..The Dark Destroyer, Shaun Wallace.

Bit of an unknown, this lad.

But they say he's a quick thinker with good feet.

Here we go.

He's taking him on.

MARGIE: Ooh!

VO: That's embarrassing.

Way-hey, and he scores!

MARGIE: Yay!

You wrong-footed the goalie, Shaun!

Brilliant.

VO: They think it's all over, but it isn't.

We still have more antiques to buy.

VO: Meanwhile, Anne and James are already on the way to their final retail opportunity.

So I got to see some of Shaun's purchases.

And were you impressed?

Um, reasonably so.

One thing I noticed, he's bought a couple of really interesting looking old law books from the early 18th century.

And what was his reaction to our purchases?

He liked them.

And we, we both laughed about the fact that for each of us, the self-indulgent purchase had been books... because this is so, this is so Chaser!

When we'd finished looking at everything, he mimicked running up a white flag.

ANNE: Which was encouraging.

VO: But it ain't over yet.

We're heading to Royston, and Wheeler's Antiques.

ANNE: Oh, excellent.

Whoa, whoa, stop, stop!

JAMES: Stop?

ANNE: Yep.

JAMES: We're there.

Well done.

ANNE: Good, good, good.

JAMES: So let's get in.

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: Ah... JAMES: Good.

Excellent.

I'm excited about this.

ANNE: Oh, yeah.

VO: This family-owned emporium has 60,000 pieces in stock, so there's an excellent chance to spend some of that £320 kitty.

The chap with the top knot is Miles.

He runs the place, with his brother, Michael.

But it's just Miles with us today.

Interesting.

The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.

Remember that.

VO: If you say so, old boy.

Now, looks like our other pair have turned up.

SHAUN: Right, Marge.

MARGIE: Come on, in we go!

VO: Shaun already has four lots, and has still got £230 in his wallet.

ANNE: (PLAYS ACCORDIAN) Anne, that is desperate tactics.

SHAUN: You really must be worried.

SHAUN: You've changed your tune, haven't you?

ANNE: Oh, yeah.

SHAUN: You feeling confident?

ANNE: Quietly so.

SHAUN: Yeah?

So what have you found?

SHAUN: You'll find out.

ANNE: Interesting things?

SHAUN: I certainly have.

ANNE: So have we.

We'll find out when we come to the auction.

ANNE: Absolutely.

SHAUN: Alright, Governess?

ANNE: Indeed.

SHAUN: (BLOWS HARSH NOTE) VO: So much for running up the white flag.

The Dark Destroyer means business.

You know you said you like boxes?

JAMES: Look at that.

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: Have a look at that one, Anne.

JAMES: These sort of bound... ANNE: With metal.

ANNE: That doesn't entirely make sense, because these are apparently tea boxes.

ANNE: I imagine that these.... JAMES: Yes, that's it.

JAMES: That's it.

ANNE: Yes.

ANNE: And then there are little boxes in there.

JAMES: So, nicely housed, aren't they?

ANNE: Yeah.

So they look like tea caddies to me.

ANNE: One of them says B, the other one says G?

Yeah, black and green tea.

ANNE: Yeah, black and green, of course.

JAMES: And so you make your blends, wouldn't you?

You get a black and a green tea, and then you blend them.

ANNE: Hmm.

It's quite a nice box, isn't it?

ANNE: It is.

And nice felt underneath.

Yeah.

But I think it is old.

But it's... That's come apart.

JAMES: That's sprung, has it?

ANNE: Yeah.

That bit there.

Whoa.

Whoops.

We call that, in the trade, springing.

Right.

Well, that seems to be the only damage.

And then, what about the box below it?

That looks even more splendid.

Doesn't it?

ANNE: It's a little chest.

ANNE: And that's station... And that's got this sort of moire silk... JAMES: Yes, that's nice, yes.

ANNE: ..lining.

JAMES: That would be a stationery box.

ANNE: Yes.

Looks like it.

JAMES: And it's casket-shaped.

ANNE: Yeah.

Sort of semi-barrel.

JAMES: Let's see if we can see anything else.

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: And then we'll ask Miles.

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: He's a man who knows his stock, I can assure you.

VO: Well, he'd better, because there's no ticket prices on either of those.

How are Shaun and Margie getting on?

No luck so far.

I wonder if the Governess has found anything else.

Come and have a look at this, James.

JAMES: Oh, what have you found?

ANNE: It's, um, some silver.

It's...

It's a sort of vanity case.

JAMES: That's some vanity case, isn't it?

ANNE: It is, there's brushes.

ANNE: I think there's a hallmark.

I can't find one on there, but... JAMES: It's got quite a nice hammered finish, hasn't it?

Yes.

It's been used, hasn't it?

JAMES: They're the hairbrushes.

ANNE: That's really shiny.

ANNE: And there is a hallmark, but I don't actually know what it means.

So you've got one there.

You normally had two of those.

ANNE: Yes.

JAMES: Matching pair, to the hairbrush.

Oh, hang on.

It's in here.

It's hiding.

Yes.

Because those two are worn, I would suggest that was given to a man.

JAMES: Ladies don't normally...

But men have less hair.

You've seen those films, haven't you?

Where they use the two brushes.

JAMES: There's quite a lot of silver there.

ANNE: Mm.

What's the price tag, Anne?

ANNE: Er...195.

JAMES: Yeah, well, we'll have to ask Miles.

JAMES: It's got to be a decent price, hasn't it?

ANNE: Yeah.

JAMES: It's a bit, it's a bit tatty.

Yes.

Yeah.

VO: Let's call over our man, shall we?

Miles?

MILES: Yep.

How are you getting on?

Alright?

Yeah, fine.

Anne's found this.

OK. Lots there, isn't there?

Yeah.

There's quite a bit missing.

Yeah, there's a few bits missing, yeah!

JAMES: (CHUCKLES) That doesn't actually match, does it?

MILES: No.

That's a nice little mirror, though.

ANNE: It is.

Yeah.

JAMES: It's probably done some good service over the years.

MILES: Yeah.

Someone's loved that.

That needs some TLC now.

ANNE: Mm.

JAMES: Yeah, yeah.

Could it be a decent price?

JAMES: You've got 195 on it, haven't you?

ANNE: Mm.

120 quid.

Could you do 100?

Yeah, go on.

I'll do 100 quid for you.

JAMES: That's very good.

Yeah.

JAMES: Thank you, Miles, that's really good.

Well, no problem, you're good.

VO: Oh, she's a tough cookie, the Governess.

But how's the Dark Destroyer doing in another part of the shop?

MARGIE: Shaun?

SHAUN: Yeah.

MARGIE: Come and have a look.

SHAUN: OK. You know, gold is doing OK. SHAUN: OK. Found that little parcel there.

SHAUN: Have you examined them?

MARGIE: Yeah.

MARGIE: You've got nine-carat pair of cufflinks.

MARGIE: They're a dead cert, aren't they?

MARGIE: You got a sweet little, it's a bit small... That's a child's, little girl's, gold, aquamarines in it.

Look.

Quite saleable.

Stones.

You got a little Edwardian shamrock brooch in nine-carat gold.

SHAUN: OK. MARGIE: But then you've got quite a nice ring there.

SHAUN: Is that real diamond?

MARGIE: Yeah, it's a diamond.

MARGIE: And it's probably... roughly third of a carat.

SHAUN: OK. MARGIE: In nine-carat gold.

SHAUN: You know what they say.

MARGIE: Yeah.

All that glistens is gold.

Yeah, so what do you think?

Yeah.

Why not?

MARGIE: See what he says.

SHAUN: OK.

There's no prices them.

Well listen, we've got a budget of 230.

If we can get him down to about 200... Yeah, OK.

I'll tell you what you do.

You take the lead on this one.

I'll take the lead.

OK, shall we go and find him?

MARGIE: Yeah, OK. SHAUN: Alright, let's go.

VO: You'll have to wait, though.

Looks like Anne and James are haggling on those boxes now.

MILES: The stationery one I can do for £60.

JAMES: OK.

MILES: The tea caddy would have to be 130.

ANNE: How much did you say for this?

JAMES: Go on, stare at him.

VO: Cripes, not the cold stare.

MILES: 50 quid.

ANNE: 50 quid.

40?

Meet me halfway.

45.

ANNE: 45.

MILES: Perfect.

ANNE: OK. 45 for that.

100 for the vanity case.

So shall we just go for those two, then?

JAMES: Yeah.

The 145.

JAMES: Oh, bringing out the money.

ANNE: Bringing out the money.

JAMES: Look at that!

JAMES: Have you got one of those fivers?

Take the £5 for luck.

JAMES: Oh, luck money.

MILES: Take the £5 for luck.

ANNE: I'll keep that, shall I?

MILES: Yeah.

Jolly good.

ANNE: 140, then, for the vanity case, and the... JAMES: Luck money.

ANNE: ..little box.

JAMES: Ooh!

MILES: Perfect.

Thank you, Miles.

No problem.

Good luck at the auction.

ANNE: Thank you very much.

JAMES: Thanks a lot.

VO: Very generous.

Thank you.

That's £100 for the traveling case, and £40 for the stationery casket.

And that's Anne and James all shopped up.

JAMES: Here we go.

VO: Back to the Roller, and on they roll.

Meanwhile, back inside, it's Shaun and Margie's turn to approach the till.

Oh, Miles.

So much to see.

So little time.

How are you doing?

Alright?

MARGIE: I'm alright.

You very kindly got that box of jewelry out.

So I've had a little root, because nothing's jumping out at us.

So we've come to an agreement, because we like what I've chosen, MARGIE: Shaun and I.

MILES: Yep.

MILES: Mm-hm.

So it's all down to you now, Miles.

If you could just give me a price that we want to pay.

Right.

You've got... MARGIE: Cuz you've not got any prices on them.

No, you've picked out some nice bits, though.

Nice little diamond ring.

I tell you what, one-off price, I'll do £200.

MARGIE: We're in.

SHAUN: We're in.

OK. That's very kind, Miles.

It's no problem.

Good luck at the auction.

VO: That's a savvy buy from Shaun and Margie.

They'll group it all into one lot for auction.

Before we go, well done, Marge.

SHAUN: Well done.

MARGIE: As long as you're happy.

I'm more than happy.

SHAUN: Here we go.

Let's go.

VO: And that's both our pairs all done and dusted.

Time for some shut-eye.

VO: Up and at 'em, chaps, it's auction day.

We're in Knebworth, a small village with a big reputation for world-class concerts.

On their way in a classic motor, two fearsome Chasers.

SHAUN: Well, here we are, Governess.

The day of reckoning.

The day of the auction.

Indeed.

SHAUN: Yeah.

Feeling confident?

Errr... A little bit.

What do you think?

I'm happy with what I bought, but we'll have to wait and see, actually.

I've had a great time competing with you.

We've had a great time, actually.

Yeah, it has been fun.

Here they come.

VO: Our destination is Tudor stately home Knebworth House.

How are you, Marge?

MARGIE: I'm very well, Shaun.

How are you?

Nice to see you.

How you doing, James?

Hello, Anne.

How are you?

Hello.

Lovely to see you again.

Good to see you.

VO: They've been bouncing around the Home Counties on their journey, and today the gang's assembled in Hertfordshire.

Meanwhile, the goodies have been sent to Bourne, Lincolnshire, home of auctioneers Golding, Young & Mawer.

Bidders are waiting keenly in the room, on the phone, and online, with gavel-basher Craig Bewick leading proceedings.

That's 5,004.

VO: Shaun was our big spender, splurging £370 on his five lots.

What does Craig think of his purchases?

Selection of jewelry.

It's a very, very good lot, that.

We've got people viewing it at the moment now, licking their lips.

It will make a lot of money, this.

It'll do really well.

VO: While Anne was slightly more conservative with her budget, only spending £220 on her five lots.

Craig?

Yeah, the dome-top casket, it's in good showroom condition, clean as a whistle, in terms of condition it's a really good thing.

Takes up no room.

People like dome-top cases.

It'll do well.

VO: Cracking stuff.

They'll be watching the action unfold on their fancy-Dan tablets.

Right.

So, this is it.

MARGIE: After all our hard work.

Yeah.

The final denouement.

SHAUN: Denouement.

SHAUN: Denouement.

Yeah, means to unravel.

It's French.

Does it?

Do you speak French?

Well, I got an O-Level.

MARGIE: Oh, have you?

SHAUN: Yeah.

MARGIE: That was a long time ago.

SHAUN: An awfully long time ago!

VO: First up, Shaun's job lot of silver spoons.

Shaun, if we can't make a profit on these, there's something horribly wrong.

80's bid.

Five's bid.

90's bid on my commission at 90.

CRAIG: At £90 bid.

Five, anywhere?

95 bid.

Very good.

CRAIG: 110, at 110 bid, online at 110.

110!

120.

Oh, good gracious.

They're doing better than I thought.

MARGIE: It is a good start.

Are you pleased?

SHAUN: Yeah, I'm very pleased.

At £130.

They flew, didn't they?

CRAIG: At 140.

MARGIE: (GASPS) 140, we'll sell at 140.

VO: Well, you couldn't hope for a better start than that.

Wow!

Very well done.

Well done, Marge, well done.

No, you're holding me hanging.

Keeping me hanging.

Don't leave me hanging, Marge!

VO: Yeah.

Well done, Shaun.

Fist bumps all round.

Now, Anne and James's turn next, with their walnut stationery box.

We like this, don't we?

The sort of brass strap work.

Yeah.

I think it looks very nice.

Margie, will you stop... SHAUN: But will it sell for a profit?

(LAUGHS) JAMES: I'm going flat.

CRAIG: £30 bid on my commission.

At £30 bid on my commission, 32, 35 bid.

CRAIG: At £35 bid, eight anywhere?

38 live bid, 40 is my commission.

Ah, you're in!

£42 is a live bid takes up my commission, at £42 bid.

CRAIG: Five anywhere now?

Profit, profit, Anne.

On the market at 42, I will sell at £42... MARGIE: Yeah.

SHAUN: Well done.

VO: Just enough to wash your face with that one.

JAMES: That's profit, Anne.

ANNE: Er, yes.

JAMES: Steaming in!

ANNE: Two quid.

With two quid!

(LAUGHS) OK. VO: Yes, team Anne will need to do better, but first, team Shaun again, with their job lot of jewelry.

Right, now let's see whether lady luck's with us, and somebody wants this little parcel.

150, we've got 100 bid.

110... MARGIE: (GASPS) 130.

140, 150, 160's bid.

CRAIG: At 160 bid... MARGIE: Oh, no.

CRAIG: 170 anywhere now?

MARGIE: Ah!

CRAIG: £160 bid, takes out the commission but it's live bidding at 170, takes out my commission.

MARGIE: Oh, come on!

£170 bid.

At £170... No!

CRAIG: 180.

190, 200, at 200.

Just about got our money back, Shaun.

CRAIG: At 220, 40 anywhere now?

At 220.

Go on, put the gavel down!

Goodness' sake!

We'll sell at £220.

VO: That's not bad.

Made your money back, and a little on top.

Anne, it could have been a lot worse.

It could... "Put the gavel down"?

That's not nice, is it?!

VO: It's a cut-throat business, alright.

Now, Anne's Japanese satsuma bowl is up next.

Is there damage to this bowl?

ANNE: No.

JAMES: No.

JAMES: How dare you?

MARGIE: Really?

How dare you?

MARGIE: No, I just thought I could see a few blemishes!

MARGIE: Can you see a few blemishes?

JAMES: What do you mean blemishes?

ANNE: I think it's just the light.

I thought me and Anne were competitive.

Wow!

At £30, my commission at £30.

CRAIG: £30 bid, two anywhere now?

CRAIG: At £30, 32, 35.

MARGIE: (GASPS) Oh!

CRAIG: 40 bid.

At 42, at 45.

Keep going, 50.

My commission takes you all out at 45.

CRAIG: At 45, at 45, on my commission at £45.

Oh, dear.

JAMES: Ooh.

VO: Well, it's practically doubled its money.

Can't say fairer than that.

Look, it's profit, innit?

JAMES: Profit's profit.

It's all about the profit.

It's all about profit.

They made 100 quid on those spoons.

SHAUN: Did we?

JAMES: Don't remind them!

VO: Well, it ain't over yet.

We've still plenty more lots to come.

Shaun's salesman's miniature brass fender and irons next.

A bit nervous of this.

Don't be nervous now, why are you nervous now?

Well, I am.

No, don't be nervous now... JAMES: Go on.

Keep with the faith.

£10.

MARGIE: Oh, no!

CRAIG: 15 bid.

At £15 bid.

JAMES: You're away.

CRAIG: At £15 bid.

MARGIE: Oh, no.

CRAIG: At 15 bid.

18 bid.

CRAIG: At £18 bid... MARGIE: It's going up in twos.

JAMES: 20.

CRAIG: At £20 bid.

At £20 bid.

You won't see another for a while.

CRAIG: At £20.

MARGIE: No, you won't!

CRAIG: Really well made.

At £22 bid.

Five anywhere now.

Trying his best.

At £22.

ANNE: Oh, dear.

JAMES: Oh, dear.

Now, now!

JAMES: (LAUGHS) ANNE: What a pity!

VO: Well, that certainly didn't light anyone's fire.

Well, I'm cross about that because I liked that.

I'd like to have owned it.

SHAUN: Did you?

Why didn't you buy it, then?

VO: Anne's Queen Victoria commemorative volume now.

Let's see what this can do.

It's a gilt-tooled, linen-cloth covered... ANNE: Yes.

Yeah.

Good.

Good luck.

Hollow words, Margie.

MARGIE: No, it's not.

JAMES: Hollow words.

SHAUN: No, no, no.

JAMES: Hollow words.

It's friendly competition.

£5 for it.

Five is bid, at £5 bid, six anywhere, now?

Six bid at, at £6 bid.

Seven anywhere?

All done at £6?

Going to have to sell it at £6, CRAIG: Trying at £6.

Seven anywhere now?

At £6.

JAMES: It is trying.

At £6.

That is unlucky.

MARGIE: Sorry.

Oh, Anne!

OK, I'm sulking now.

VO: Poor Anne - that was a passion buy from her.

She'll be disappointed.

It's very hard to find books that are worth a lot of money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

VO: Well, that doesn't bode well for our next lot.

Shaun's two volumes of Parliamentary statutes coming up.

Stand by.

Now, this is gonna be interesting.

This is gonna be very interesting.

I have no idea what's gonna happen.

Oh, they are in decent nick.

I won't go on.

I'll just talk about the commission bids that we've had, which have been plentiful, which starts me off at 80, 90, 110... MARGIE: Oh, you're joking!

JAMES: Ah!

Shaun, you've cracked it.

At £120.

Oh, my goodness, Shaun, well done.

At 120.

It has to be there, at 120... JAMES: Ooh!

MARGIE: The binding wasn't good.

Well done, well done.

ANNE: Excellent.

JAMES: Well done.

(LAUGHS) ANNE: It's amazing.

I only allowed that because it was your legal bit.

VO: Well, I'm shocked.

What a fabulous profit.

MARGIE: I am absolutely... JAMES: That's good.

Very good.

I'm so glad you were my partner.

Oh, you're my... Oh, oh... We're a team now, eh?

I'm so glad I partnered you.

"Why are you buying that rubbish book?

"that looks distressed.

"No, no, no, Shaun, it's not gonna make no profit."

I was worried, books can go down the pan.

VO: Shaun and Margie have opened a considerable lead now.

Anne and James will need their Victorian traveling case to do well.

I'm just a little concerned because there are bits missing.

MARGIE: Oh, that... No, no, no, no.

We have £100 bid on commission.

There you go, well you're in.

110, 120 bid on the commission here, at £130 bid.

A stupendously good lot this, at 130, 140.

At 140... Good.

Go on.

At 140.

Are you quite sure?

At 150.

MARGIE: It's going.

CRAIG: At 150.

At 150.

CRAIG: At 150.

It's a very good one, this, at 150.

60 anywhere?

At £150.

Keep going.

Got to sell at £150.

ANNE: Oh, it's OK.

It's cheap, but you've got your 50 quid profit there.

ANNE: Mm.

JAMES: Yeah.

It's cheap, though, isn't it?

JAMES: Steady work.

MARGIE: Wonderful thing.

It is cheap, isn't it?

VO: I'd say £50 is a decent margin.

But that's good, Anne.

That's a good working profit, isn't it?

SHAUN: Well done.

MARGIE: Yes.

VO: The Dark Destroyer's final item now.

The set of four mid-century French wine glasses.

This was your real passion, this one.

It was.

£20 for them.

20's bid, at £20.

CRAIG: Two anywhere, now?

CRAIG: 20, bid over the 20.

£20 bid.

MARGIE: Fiver each.

£20 bid, two anywhere now?

For the four.

At £20, are you all sure at £20?

Quite sure at £20?

Two anywhere?

At £20... Fiver each.

VO: Well, you can't win 'em all.

And that hardly dents Shaun's takings today.

You alright with that?

Yeah, I'm alright!

VO: Now, just the one chance left for the Governess to make some money.

It's her 19th-century Chinese bronze incense burner.

Anne, we need a miracle.

ANNE: Mm, we do.

JAMES: Are we looking for a miracle?

MARGIE: Well, you never know.

This could be the one.

Are the gods looking down upon us?

Got commission bids here of 10.

We've got one here of 12.

That's generous of them, isn't it?

18, while we think about it, 18 bid, 20 anywhere, now?

20 is bid.

At £20 bid.

Two anywhere?

CRAIG: 22's bid online.

MARGIE: Oh, dear.

At £22 bid, five anywhere now?

At £22 bid.

Oh, gosh.

CRAIG: You quite sure at £22 bid?

Quite sure?

Will sell at £22... JAMES: There must be a mistake there!

No, there wasn't a mistake.

SHAUN: No, no, no, no.

VO: No divine intervention this time, unfortunately.

Very, very well done.

JAMES: Well done.

Well done.

ANNE: Yeah.

We don't know what the final score is.

VO: Well, without giving the game away, there can be little doubt who's come out on top.

Anne started out with £400, and after auction costs, she made a small loss.

So she's ended up with £397.30.

While Shaun also started with the same sum, he spent more, and made more at auction.

After saleroom fees, he wins the day with £458.04.

And all the profit made goes to Children In Need.

Off you go into the sunset.

MARGIE: Off you go into the sunset.

ANNE: I think the loser has to drive, don't you?

MARGIE: Yeah, loser's driving.

SHAUN: Home, Anne!

Well, I've thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, actually.

SHAUN: You driving me around in the Rolls-Royce, and you know, with my chin up to my knees, when I was sitting in that sort of E-Type... Who goes for an E-Type Jag when you're six foot four, eh?

Who does that, eh?

You are a twit.

Complete twit, eh.

VO: Toodleloo, you lovely lot!

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