[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The nation's favorite celebrities-- Got some proper bling here.

NARRATOR: --paired up with an expert-- Point, point.

NARRATOR: --and a classic car.

[SHOUTING] Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.

All breakages must be paid for.

But this is a good find, is it not?

NARRATOR: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no easy ride.

Who will find a hidden gem?

Who will take the biggest risks?

I've put on my antiques head on.

NARRATOR: Will anybody follow expert advice?

[SCOFFS] I think it's horrible.

NARRATOR: There will be worthy winners-- [LAUGHTER] This is spending Christmas NARRATOR: --and valiant losers.

[RUSTLING PAPER] Time to put your pedal to the metal.

[SCREAMING] This is "Celebrity Antiques Road Trip."

[MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah!

Welcome to a rocking good trip in the company of a couple of music icons.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I just love being on the road, don't you?

I do, actually.

It's just a feeling of freedom, really.

BOB HARRIS: It's not the destination so much as the journey.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Today's celebrities are Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris, esteemed DJs and friends who between them have been spinning records for almost a century.

How Groovy is that?

BOB HARRIS: You know what, this reminds me of a lot.

What?

BOB HARRIS: When I first joined you on Radio 1, John Peel and I used to go off on trips around local junk shops and looking for second hand records.

NARRATOR: Meeting their heroes has certainly got antiques experts David Harper and Phil Serrell giddy with excitement.

We've seen these guys today.

I mean, they're musical legends, aren't they?

Oh, truly, truly.

Yeah, yeah.

Had influence on antiques.

Completely.

NARRATOR: These two super fans are driving a 1957 Ford Zephyr which dates from a time before seat belts were mandatory.

Uber cool.

It's so cool.

It's unbelievable.

Are they really going to be as cool as they seem in real life?

This is going to be interesting.

Cooler.

NARRATOR: He may be right, you know.

Johnny was a budding racing driver before he began rocking the boat as a pirate DJ.

He eventually came back on dry land to join BBC Radio 1.

But he's been a bit of a rebel his entire career, always championing good music over playlists and formats.

JOHNNIE WALKER: My elder brother used to collect all these '78s.

And he forbid me from playing them when he was out.

He had "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell.

Right.

[LAUGHS] And I sat on it by mistake.

It broke into bits.

It broke, yeah.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Bob played his very first Radio 1 record just over 45 years ago although he soon became much better known as the face and voice of the ground breaking "Old Grey Whistle Test."

His intimate style earning him the nickname Whispering Bob.

PHILLIP SERRELL: So who do you want to work with?

DAVID HARPER: I'm fascinated with the pirate radio of the 1960s.

What about you?

Well see, for me, "The Old Grey Whistle Test" was just, you know-- DAVID HARPER: I love the pirate thing.

You love "The Grey Whistle Test."

PHILLIP SERRELL: Should we do that?

DAVID HARPER: Let's do it.

NARRATOR: As well as their biggest fans are celebrities will each have 400 pounds.

How are you?

Hi, I'm Phillip.

- Great to meet you.

- Yeah.

Very good to meet you.

- What do you think about this?

- This is really nice.

I think it's beautiful.

But that-- actually, that's the coolest motor.

Yep.

Given Phillip's slim stature-- Yeah.

--he might be more comfortable in that one.

I need a transit.

[LAUGHTER] SERRELL: So we've got the cool car.

BOB HARRIS: We've got the cool car.

Yeah, we'll rough it in here while you two-- PHILLIP SERRELL: See you later.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Johnnie and David grabbed the MGBGT and Bob and Phil, the Zephyr.

And once they've got past the autographs, I'm sure there'll be a lot of serious talk about tactics.

PHILLIP SERRELL: When this comes out you're going to phone up Elton, Robert.

You know, - I bet they're watching.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] They watch anyway.

[INAUDIBLE] NARRATOR: Today's trip starts in Crewkerne, Somerset and takes a rock and roll ramble around the Southwest before arriving at an auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Back in 1700, this delightful town was the birthplace of Joshua Fry, the American soldier and adventurer who along with Thomas Jefferson's father was responsible for the first mapping of Virginia.

Now, rock legends first.

It's huge.

And how DAVID HARPER: How do you feel knowing that you've got to buy some stuff.

Does it make you feel a bit, oh, what am I going to do?

Yeah Good, we're in the same boat then.

NARRATOR: Just relax take it all in.

BOB HARRIS: John Taylor used to have these in a studio you know, called a show, "The Perfume Gone."

No They always had candles in the studio and a few joss sticks burning.

DAVID HARPER: Oh, wow.

[INAUDIBLE] effect.

We're not going to buy any of those.

We're not, no.

NARRATOR: Hey, man, peace.

Now enter Bob and Phil.

PHILLIP SERRELL: We need something that says Bob Harris, don't we?

BOB HARRIS: Sounds like a plan to me.

I like old signs.

I was producing an album by a guy called John Golding in the '70s and when it was completed, to thank me, he bought me this big ticket sign which I've got outside my studio.

So anything that's kind of like that, but vintage.

PHILLIP SERRELL: I think that's new.

If you look there, can you just see that bit of cast is still in the hole?

BOB HARRIS: Yes PHILLIP SERRELL: Well, if that's been screwed to something that would've been knocked off, wouldn't it?

- Yes, that is absolutely right.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Well it's a pity isn't?

BOB HARRIS: It is.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the others are busy sorting out strategy.

JOHNNIE WALKER: You just have to knock them down a bit.

Are you experienced with that?

The car salesman years come in handy, DAVID HARPER: Of course, of course.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Then I got the chance to go on the pirate ships.

The garage manager he said, you must decide are you going to be a proper car salesman or a disk jockey?

Oh I'll give you two weeks to think about it.

And I say, I don't need two weeks I'll give you the answer now.

He said, what's that?

I'll be a DJ, thanks very much.

NARRATOR: So far they're not looking at much but that might be about to change.

Do you know what it is?

It's a cartridge case which my original assumption would be that this is for cassettes.

No, no, no, I can tell you now.

If you were a big country landowner, massive estate, shooting hundreds and hundreds of pheasants.

You would arrive on the day with a case like this to put your cartridges in.

BOB HARRIS: OK, you put your cartridges in there like that?

PHILLIP SERRELL: Right, and then as the day went on, you pull that leather up and it brings the cartridges to the top.

BOB HARRIS: Wow.

PHILLIP SERRELL: There's a big but with this.

BOB HARRIS: OK.

In all these things condition is imperative.

Yeah, OK.

This has been repaired along there.

It's got new corners on it.

BOB HARRIS: Yes.

PHILLIP SERRELL: And these straps aren't quite as old as me.

Not quite.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Right, if you look really, really closely at this, look at the stitching there.

Yeah and look at that stitching there, completely different.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, Yeah.

BOB HARRIS: It's in imperfect nick , without any problems or faults.

These things are worth 3 to 500, 4 to 600 pounds.

Right, right.

Massively collectible, this has got quite an expensive tag on it anyway.

It's 160 pounds.

We might be able to do a lot, lot better than that.

BOB HARRIS: Do you think so?

PHILLIP SERRELL: Yeah I do.

It's a great thing in this business about upcycling and I'm just wondering if we can turn an Edwardian leather cartridge case into the Bob Harris bespoke cassette holder.

BOB HARRIS: Cassette holder, that would be good, wouldn't it?

NARRATOR: Let's consult our shopkeeper, Antony.

PHILLIP SERRELL: At auction, I think that's going to make 80 to 120 which is half the price you've got on it.

Is there going to be any room for negotiation?

ANTHONY: I can certainly contact the trader.

I can't halve the price but that's probably what he paid for it at auction in the first place but-- If you can find out what the very best is, tell him we've got a musical legend here.

A musical legend?

A musical legend, here.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Strangely, our other legend has his eye on something similar.

DAVID HARPER: Are you into shooting?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, I am.

DAVID HARPER: Are you?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah.

DAVID HARPER: That is a good label, the Right Honorable Lord Raglan.

Yeah.

That's the original ticket isn't it?

DAVID HARPER: That, what is that?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Pall Mall S.W.1 DAVID HARPER: Yes it is.

JOHNNIE WALKER: A lot of money there.

How much is it?

140?

140 Yeah but you said you were brilliant at negotiating, I'm absolutely confident that you will get that, harking back to your wheeler dealer days for a song.

Get it?

What sort of shooting do you do?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Clays.

DAVID HARPER: Right.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Don't like killing anything for fun.

No.

Are you any good?

Yeah, I have my moments.

I was on one trap when they go, the clays go away from you.

Yeah And I was borrowing my friend's gun and we were just having a go.

And I go pull, blew the first one out.

Pull, second, third, by the fifth and sixth I hadn't missed yet.

There's people standing behind me thinking, who the hell is this geezer?

I got 10 out of 10.

DAVID HARPER: Impressive.

JOHNNIE WALKER: What do you know about Lord Raglan, anything?

DAVID HARPER: I'd like to know more about him, but he must be a local guy.

NARRATOR: Could it be The Lord Raglan?

The man who ordered The Charge of the Light Brigade?

Time to talk to Tina.

I'm slightly drawn to this, All, right.

Not, not in a big way.

OK TINA: Yeah, would you like me to ring the dean and see if I can get any more information?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, why not?

DAVID HARPER: Yeah and a best trade price.

- Best trade price.

- Yeah, please, NARRATOR: Meanwhile, we're still awaiting news on the Bob Harris bespoke cassette case.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Fancy anything else?

What I collect is buses.

Buses?

Toy buses?

Toy buses?

Yeah, dinkeys.

You love tin toys?

Oh, absolutely, Yeah I've still got some of the buses that I bought as a child.

So if we can find some toy buses that's-- Oh, I'm there.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Do you want those?

BOB HARRIS: The rig master is not very nice, but the two in the box at the back there.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Very nice.

The original Omnibus Company buses, those two are sweet, but I mean, I just like them, but I don't think they're of any value particularly.

I think if they went in an auction they'd probably get less than the ticket price there to be honest.

NARRATOR: Oh, well.

Tina has spoken to the chap who owns the gun case and he's come down to 100 pounds, but Johnnie's keen to exercise his car salesman skills.

TINA: It's Gordon Smith.

Gordon, how are you?

GORDON (ON PHONE): I'm very well, thank you.

JOHNNIE WALKER (ON PHONE): I'm kind of drawn to, you know, I love the number nine.

So I've got 90 sort of in my mind.

You've become very quiet there, Gordon.

GORDON (ON PHONE): Yeah, I have.

95, it's 45 quid off.

DAVID HARPER: I do like it, I must say, I do like it.

We'll go for it Gordon.

NARRATOR: I think they are gonna go for it.

Now, anyone not on the phone?

Tina, point us in the direction of a living antiques dealer.

There's a neighbor here whose name's Jane.

[INAUDIBLE] DAVID HARPER: Jane, we're coming to get you.

NARRATOR: It's all happening.

Let's go and get Jane.

Hello, Jane, I'm David.

Nice to meet you Hello Jane, I'm Johnnie.

How do you do?

DAVID HARPER: So Jane, what do you know about Scamp there?

JANE: Not very much at all, and I think it's a pastel.

Yeah, so it's not a print?

I don't think so.

JOHNNIE WALKER: He's quite a little character, isn't he?

DAVID HARPER: What a great name, Scamp?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah.

- How much is he?

It's got to be worth a fiver, isn't he?

NARRATOR: The ticket price however is eight.

Seven quid will do it nicely.

DAVID HARPER: You said a fiver a month ago.

He keeps going up.

JANE: Seven good to me.

DAVID HARPER: Unbelievable.

Yeah.

Have we bought, have we bought it?

I think we have, I think we have.

NARRATOR: So it seems.

Jane has something else too.

[INAUDIBLE] You know that is something I could put out for you quite reasonably.

I bet you want to get rid of it, it's been around for a long time.

JANE: Just brought it in, actually.

JOHNNIE WALKER: It's a bit of a lump.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, it needs rewiring which would cost 100 quid.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Made of brass, no label on it, yet.

You haven't priced it up yet.

JANE: 25.

DAVID HARPER: Date-wise, Johnnie, I'm guessing that's mid-20th century.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah So it looks like it's a 17th century piece.

Yeah It's a reproduction.

Was it a good weight?

It's very heavy.

NARRATOR: Yeah, sounds like he's introducing a record.

If you used your fantastic negotiating skills, I reckon we'd bag that at a bargain.

Over to you.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Over to me.

Starting about 12 quid?

Say 15.

15.

I can do 15.

You reckon?

I'd so say.

You gotta give me secret signals here, man.

OK OK. OK, we'll have that, thanks.

So we'll take that and scram.

Brilliant, Brilliant, OK, Johnnie.

We're proper dealers on the-- NARRATOR: You're not supposed to be shaking each other's hands.

Thank you very much.

This is more like it.

Let's fill the MG up.

NARRATOR: After a slowish start, they've got three in the bag for 117 pounds.

3 pounds change, thank you very much.

- Thank you, - Thank you, Tina.

NARRATOR: Now viewers with a keen memory may recall that the ticket price on this was 160 pounds.

ANTHONY: I had a chat with him since you spoke earlier and he said 120 would be round about his bottom.

He's a roundabout bit.

Yeah that's-- Can you do any round about bit in a bit?

Can we meet you halfway, at 100?

BOB HARRIS: 100 feels right to me if that's all right.

Between us we have that leeway, so yes, I can do that.

You happy right there, aren't we?

Yeah I mean Sorry I was a little bit quick.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: There's a whole lot of shaking going round this morning, you know.

Yeah but the deal is done.

That's fabulous.

I've even got some money for-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] I think we've done well with that.

- I think this is pretty good.

- Really, really good.

NARRATOR: And out on the long and winding road, are rivals Johnnie and David.

JOHNNIE WALKER: But the swinging '60s was definitely true.

But I missed 2/3 of it because I was out on the boat on the North Sea.

You was bobbing about in the ocean.

Yeah, but we made up for it on our week on the shore.

Clubs like the Bag O' Nails and the Cromwellian Club where you'd see the Beatles and Clapton and people were just used to go there and hang out together.

It was a really great scene.

NARRATOR: Those two are taking a bit of a break from the shops and tootling from Crewkerne to Sparkford.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Regular DJs, people like Gary Davis and Bruno Brooks were all having their porsches and stuff.

Yeah Yeah.

So I bought a Citroen 2CV.

NARRATOR: Well our fans of cool cars should have a fun old time at our next destination where they come to find out more about a diminutive British beauty.

DAVID HARPER: Good bit of driving there, Johnnie.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Thank you.

MATT: Hello Johnnie, how very nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

Both of you to the Haynes International Motor Museum if you'd like to come with me.

NARRATOR: The Haynes Company made their name with their trademark owners' workshop manuals and opened this fine collection in 1985.

But that's one of the most beautiful cars ever made.

NARRATOR: Indeed, but they've come to find out how the evolution of the small car changed motoring and gave birth to a British icon.

Our story starts with this quirky classic.

MATT: I'm sure you probably know what it is.

Messerschmidt It is a Messerschmidt It's a Kabinenroller 200, a KR 200.

And just in case you were going to ask, it's got no parts from this car have come from a Messerschmidt place.

DAVID HARPER: Of course, the canopy looks like it does.

It does.

It's the same Messerschmidt, it's the same company that during the second World War made all the fighter planes.

NARRATOR: Based on an invalid carriage, the keenly priced Kabinenroller was an immediate hit, thanks in part to world events.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Is this a result of the service fuel crisis, 1956, was it?

Yes, oil and then petrol of course was in very short supply and we were looking at rationing again, right.

Relatively soon after the second World War.

And so onto the market from the continent from countries like Germany and Italy came these very small cars which were essentially driven with motorcycle engines and because of that a lot of them didn't have a reverse gear.

But also you didn't need car tax to drive it, you didn't need a car license.

JOHNNIE WALKER: So I guess in a way that is the forerunner of the smart car we know today.

Yeah, Yeah, it is.

Of course there's one just there, right.

Mr. Walker, would you like to try?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Please, do.

MATT: Now this is before health and safety, so if I can just keep my hand over that rather-- DAVID HARPER: Just kick your leg in.

I never tried one on the road.

NARRATOR: Can we squeeze David in too?

Oh, hello.

Don't worry, it's fine.

Right, it's supposed to do that.

Well, it's even got more room than our little MGBGT.

Yes, you've got enough air for about 30 seconds, there right.

But the windows are open, anyway.

So there, this is the full microcar, the bubble car experience.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The British Motor Corporation soon decided that they too could make a little one.

One that was capable of carrying four adults and their luggage and in 1959 their top designer came up with the Mini.

MATT: Alec Issigonis, he was given a very tight brief.

He had to produce a car that could fit in a box, no longer than 10 feet, no wider than 4 and no taller than 4.

JOHNNIE WALKER: The biggest thing that he did was turn the engine sideways.

MATT: Yes, transverse.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yes, which had never, ever been done before to save space.

Everything about this car is designed to save space and a very revolutionary constant velocity joint.

MATT: Yes.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] You thought we were just going to talk about music.

NARRATOR: Thanks to its enormous influence on car design, Alec Issigonis' Austin powered classic has been voted second only to the Model T. JOHNNIE WALKER: This car when it first came on the road was actually called wizardry on wheels because everything in it was so clever.

Now Johnnie, do you remember the day the Mini was released?

JOHNNIE WALKER: I do, I remember all the newspaper headlines.

It was a really big thing because it was such a revolutionary car, that nobody had ever made a car that was that small.

I mean, we've seen bubble cars, it hardly, you can't really call it a car.

You know you need a wheel at each corner, NARRATOR: Yes, and unlike its continental forerunners, the Mini with its nimble handling would dominate motorsport in the '60s.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I mean you could drive them really fast, couldn't you?

MATT: Yes, you can.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Look at Paddy Hopkirk, Monte Carlo.

Absolutely, several wins.

NARRATOR: Sporting chic and even a starring role in a movie, it's no wonder the humble Mini became a style icon as well as one of the best selling British cars in history.

MATT: So, if I was to say that I had the keys to a 1965 Mini Deluxe outside.

DAVID HARPER: Thank you, very much, Matt.

It's a lovely present.

We really do appreciate it.

MATT: I hope the trustees aren't watching.

Thank you.

DAVID HARPER: Johnnie, go for it.

Yeah, great seeing you Matt.

We'll see you again sometime.

MATT: Just bring the car back.

Yeah, bye.

Lovely.

Shall we have it?

Let's leave the MG. - Yeah, DAVID HARPER: I think.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Good.

Yeah, bye!

We've got a little Mini.

NARRATOR: I hope they're joking.

Meanwhile Bob and Phil are on their own journey through the past.

BOB HARRIS: My dad had the Zephyr.

The thing that I loved, I remember at the time about this car was the Americanization of it a little bit, you know with the fins.

You've got a bit of Chrome on it.

The style, two tone.

I just thought it was Whitewall tires?

Yeah, beautiful car.

NARRATOR: These two are making their own sweet way to their next shop.

The Dorset village of Yetminster was home to Benjamin Jesty, in the 18th century, a local farmer who administered the world's first recorded smallpox vaccination.

Hello, there.

Hi, Philip Whispering Bob Harris and there's old Phil Serrell.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: On the Dorset leg of their world tour, complete with bus.

I like the sign up there.

I love the sign up there.

NARRATOR: Nice.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Could, you try that off?

Goodness, I don't think.

Don't think so, do you?

They're always too small.

They are, aren't they?

NARRATOR: Suits you sir.

BOB HARRIS: Aaah.

NARRATOR: Also promising.

BOB HARRIS: What do you think about this?

Yeah, clarinet.

Could you play that?

No, no I couldn't.

Sure I couldn't either.

I wouldn't even know really probably how to put it together.

BOB HARRIS: Well that might make two of us.

PHILLIP SERRELL: The greatest exponent of this for me was, [INAUDIBLE].

"Stranger on the Shore."

Yeah NARRATOR: Oh, yes, the clarinet classic.

PHILLIP SERRELL: It's interesting because you can get really good versions of these that are quite old.

But this is plastic and it's made in China.

BOB HARRIS: Oh, is it?

Oh it's still quite substantial though, isn't it?

I wouldn't rule this out at all because I like the musical thing for you.

BOB HARRIS: Yeah, well it's 30 pounds is the-- Yeah, it'll be almost embarrassing to try and get some discount on that won't it.

but we'll give it a go.

NARRATOR: You could always threaten to play it, Phil.

BOB HARRIS: I've just noticed Phil-- PHILLIP SERRELL: Yeah?

This rather lovely picnic set.

PHILLIP SERRELL: We can have that in the Zephyr.

It's even the same color scheme.

BOB HARRIS: It is, isn't it?

Yeah, well every color scheme.

Yeah.

I think the first thing to do with these is check that the old thermos is still-- Oh, look at those.

That's all [INAUDIBLE].

BOB HARRIS: Oh Yeah.

This looks as if it's hardly ever been used.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Joking apart, we've got the Zephyr.

You know there are people who collect classic cars and this is a great thing to put in if you're going out for your day in your classic car.

Absolutely.

You take your tartan rug with you and you pick-- BOB HARRIS: Yeah PHILLIP SERRELL: Which is right.

Look that's good, look Sirram.

BOB HARRIS: Yeah, PHILLIP SERRELL: Sirram, yeah, you pretty much sure that this would be it the original cups and saucers for it.

- Yeah Which is nice.

NARRATOR: Will it be both items?

BOB HARRIS: However much I like the clarinet, to me this has got a much greater potential.

Shall I leave the clarinet there?

I think so, yeah, so this is now number one possibility.

BOB HARRIS: Getting there, isn't it?

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Somehow I think those two will be doing quite a bit of business in here.

Actually, I must say it rather suits you.

Yeah to move so.

NARRATOR: Please don't encourage him, Bob.

BOB HARRIS: This is rather nice, look.

Oh look.

This is a fly fishing box with flies.

PHILLIP SERRELL: I think that's lovely.

BOB HARRIS: Oh it's beautiful, isn't it?

When would you say this was manufactured?

PHILLIP SERRELL: I would think that's probably 1920s, it's you know, it's like great sort of British field sports age.

BOB HARRIS: It's got a second little compartment here as well.

It's Crawford's Bills Fall, April.

And this is to tell you the flies.

These are all the names of the flies.

So you've got a dark olive.

BOB HARRIS: Yeah.

PHILLIP SERRELL: A gold nibbled hares ear, how does that grab you?

You know I really would love to get this.

I would as well.

I think this has got-- - How much is it?

potential.

140 quid.

NARRATOR: Oh vey.

That's it's quite expensive, isn't it, 140?

Casting your bread upon the water there aren't you?

We're going to Salisbury for the auction, that's a good sort of fishing area so I'd sort of kind of hope that it would work.

But if we can perhaps just try and put a group of things together.

So we got this, Yeah PHILLIP SERRELL: We've got the picnic hamper.

We could perhaps find something else.

NARRATOR: What though?

Something old?

Something gray?

We've already said no to the whistle.

BOB HARRIS: I think it's probably from the '60s.

PHILLIP SERRELL: I would say.

BOB HARRIS: Not only can you drink from these cups, you can actually play them.

NARRATOR: Well sort of.

Here, say you've got six cups, sugar bowl, and milk jug.

I think they're rather attractive.

I don't know what it is about them and the price-- 40 pounds.

That's-- I can imagine somebody in an auction really taking a fancy to these.

NARRATOR: Portmeirion Pottery wasn't made in the famous Welsh tourist village but it was sold there.

The important thing is damage.

And if you just run your fingers, very often, you know, fingers will feel damage before eyes see them.

So I don't think there's any damage to these at all.

BOB HARRIS: That's a good tip.

NARRATOR: Does that mean we might be talking to Mark soon?

PHILLIP SERRELL: We've got a 40 pound coffee set.

We've got a 34 pound picnic set.

Yeah, I've got 140 pound fly box.

So in my eyes we've got to try and buy them for somewhere between well 80 and 100 pounds if we can.

That's the cold light of day, whether he will or not, I don't know.

- What all of them together?

- Yeah, Blimey.

NARRATOR: Gird your loins.

PHILLIP SERRELL: It would be lovely to buy them for somewhere between 80 and 90 pounds.

If we bought them for, 90 we've got to sell them for about 110, 115, just to get our money back.

MARK: Yeah, I have got 210 on, so, I can't really go that low I'm afraid.

BOB HARRIS: I couldn't see us going much over 100 quid for it in truth.

MARK: I'll do 110.

- OK. - Yeah.

- All right then.

- All right, - Yeah.

- Yeah.

NARRATOR: So that's 55 pounds for the fly fishing box, 30 for the Portmeirion and 25 pounds for the picnic set.

Not bad.

And now, approaching fast at the end of side one.

JOHNNIE WALKER: So, it's a real safe, probably driving.

I DJ.

You sure.

Yeah.

completely.

Well, you going to scare me any minute.

Oh, I might just try.

NARRATOR: Night, night.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Next day we're in Devon, down by the seaside.

How lovely.

DAVID HARPER: Look at that Phil, the English Riviera, eh.

But I know, I know that Torquay is just seen as that, but it's something else as well.

What is it?

There's all.

DAVID HARPER: Cool city.

NARRATOR: Later they'll be making for that Wiltshire auction but first they're about to meet up in Torquay.

JOHNNIE WALKER: So Philip, when got I first saw him, I thought there's a bit of an Elton John going on there.

So I called him Rocket Man Yes, you are right, though.

Put a piano in front of Phil.

You could turn up [INAUDIBLE],, couldn't he?

Nobody would know the difference.

NARRATOR: Until he opened his mouth, presumably Bob.

Fortunately he knows a bit about antiques though and together the two of them have spent 210 pounds on a fly fishing case, a picnic set, a leather cartridge case and a coffee set.

BOB HARRIS: Not only can you drink from these cups, you can actually play them.

NARRATOR: Leaving them with just under 200 pounds still to spend.

While Johnnie and David have parted with 117 pounds for a chandelier, a portrait of scamp, and the leather gun case.

DAVID HARPER: You any good?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, I have my moments.

NARRATOR: Meaning they have almost 300 pounds at their disposal.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Right, you off in yours and we're off in ours.

Yeah.

Well we've seen to have wrong partners.

Bob, I'm going to deliver you right now.

I'll take you over this way, Johnnie.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] Right, I'm driving today - You're driving.

- There you go.

- Thank you very much, - I'm driving.

I've been chauffeur driven.

Oh wow, We're off.

We're off.

Whoa.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: After that getaway, Johnnie and David are following the coast road.

Johnnie, you're going to have to forgive me for quite possibly a stupid question, but is your name really Johnnie Walker?

No, it's not.

When I joined my first radio station run by Americans, they bought a lot of jingles from their stations in America and they said, we want you to be called Johnnie Walker because we got a lot of jingles.

I had a great one that go, (SINGING) Johnnie Walker.

So that was that, really.

DAVID HARPER: Dare, I ask what your real name is?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Peter Dingley.

DAVID HARPER: Peter Dingley has got a great, cool ring to it.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Really?

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Well, whoever they are they're heading for the resort of Paighnton.

JOHNNIE WALKER: There we go.

DAVID HARPER: After you.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Thank you.

NARRATOR: Not look they've got time for a [INAUDIBLE].. Let's do the best then.

Hello, Hello Pete.

Hello Johnnie.

How are you?

Nice to meet you, very well thank you.

David.

David, really good to meet you.

- Hello there.

- What have you got there?

Anything fantastic?

We've got a treasure trove for you here so, It's got to be cheap, mind.

NARRATOR: Well, I'm sure a bit of the old charm would help with that Johnnie.

JOHNNIE WALKER: We want something special, we want something unusual.

Peter, where's your special, unusual stuff, Peter?

NARRATOR: Well, if you don't ask.

DAVID HARPER: What's your connection with cameras then?

JOHNNIE WALKER: I've just always loved photography, and you know collected cameras over the years, Kodak Junior.

PETER: What's nice about that is we've got the original case with that one as well.

DAVID HARPER: Oh the leather pouch.

PETER: Yeah.

DAVID HARPER: Were you out and about in the '60s taking pictures of all the celebs.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, and I had a Nickormatt which is like the poor man's Nikon and I used to take photographs of gigs and had a few photographs published in the "New Musical Express" But tell me, how would that do in an auction do you think?

Not well because that brand, great brand but they were the prolific makers.

This was the camera for everybody.

It's probably under 3 pounds, I would guess Peter.

PETER: In which, what universe?

NARRATOR: I'm not sure that went down well.

I could do that for 15 pounds.

7.50, it would be quite good wouldn't it?

It's so easy to make Peter laugh, isn't it?

Yeah, exactly.

Just hammer his prices, he loves it.

I'm an old crow, isn't it.

Let's be honest?

DAVID HARPER: What do you get to, Johnnie?

JOHNNIE WALKER: 7.50, that's over double what you've offered.

He's offered over double what I offered.

Yeah, we've doubled our offer.

I can't believe we did that.

NARRATOR: No, neither can Peter.

We're getting close to being ejected here.

You are.

Yeah.

I'll tell you what then, what might be interesting is you get closer to Peter.

Johnnie's offer was 7.50.

What could you do?

Well, because you're such a legend.

Yeah.

Well I suppose I could do it for 12.50.

JOHNNIE WALKER: All right, then 12 quid.

12.50 that's it.

You've got to get him the stuff.

You've got to give him his 50.

Yeah, I'm sure I can find 50.

Shall we do that, Peter?

Yeah.

So, sorry about Johnnie Walker.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: I think Peter has given them a very good deal there, so quick, pay the man before he changes his mind.

Johnnie Walker, quickly.

Jump in, I'll throw you the camera.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Meanwhile, with Whispering Bob and the Rocket Man, the grilling goes on.

Where does Whispering Bob come from?

It was coined by a journalist, a melody maker when I first started doing the old gray whistle test.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Be proud of it.

BOB HARRIS: I am, it's distinctive.

You know there are millions of Bobs in the world.

There's only one Whispering Bob.

There's not many Whispering Bobs.

NARRATOR: Those two are journeying towards Dartington, where in the 1920s an American heiress began a revolution in both farming and education.

CELIA: Philip, Bob, welcome to Dartington.

BOB HARRIS: And you are Celia?

CELIA: I'm Celia.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Celia, this is very special.

BOB HARRIS: It's very beautiful, isn't it.

CELIA: This is a medieval courtyard, 15th century but completely transformed by Dorothy Elmhirst.

Would you be kind enough to show us around?

I'd love to.

OK. NARRATOR: Dorothy Whitney was fabulously wealthy and determined to spend her fortune in furthering the progressive causes she believed in.

She met her second husband, Leonard, the farmer son of an English parson in 1919.

Together they established a center for their ideas and moved to the Devon countryside.

CELIA: He realized that there were different ways that you could do agriculture, that there was something lacking in the British education system.

She knew that things needed to move on from Victoriana, if you like.

So they then discovered they had an opportunity together to make something very special and they came here to do it.

What condition was the estate in when they got here?

It was completely ruined.

There was one farmer living here.

The courtyard was a farmyard and they restored the building and added to it.

And if you want to come with me, I'll show you some of that where-- Oh yes, we really would.

NARRATOR: The couple spent millions over the next few years providing a huge boost to the local economy, .

They set up farming and forestry projects and in 1926 established a co-educational boarding school.

BOB HARRIS: What would it have been like building this up from the ground, really?

It was a busy and building community of so many different kinds of people and interest and that's what they fostered.

They started a new school because they knew that the schooling methods that existed didn't work for all children.

So they just got on with it and started a school that transformed the way that we're all taught now.

NARRATOR: The children here spent less time in the classroom and learned instead whilst working on the estate.

CELIA: That belief that you could teach people of the future, that you could welcome the writers of the welfare state here to write the Labor Party Manifesto in 1945.

That you could mix work on the land with art and all of those things melded together.

NARRATOR: The arts were at the core of the Dartington Experiment and many outstanding figures were attracted to the Hall.

But that influx was given greater impetus during the '30s and '40s.

CELIA: Some of the most famous artists of the time came and inhabited rooms around the courtyard and did their work and in particular it attracted artists from Europe who were being persecuted prior to the second World War.

And these were people who were dancers, they were painters, they were sculptors, and they were welcomed in here by the Elmhirsts but also by the local community.

They brought with them a whole new way of being and that legacy lasts today.

NARRATOR: Nowadays Dartington is famous for its international summer school, a unique music event, as well as hosting several other educational programs.

CELIA: They had a big vision but I think they would have been surprised and largely impressed to see 40 odd years later, it was still doing so many of the things that they had started.

Still experimenting, still trying to be relevant, still trying to do things differently.

NARRATOR: The Elmhirsts' vision has become a charitable trust specializing in the arts, sustainable agriculture, and social justice.

CELIA: I think towards the end of their lives, they could also see that they'd created something which might not be able to continue because it needed too much money.

It needed too much of the money that Dorothy brought with her which was now running out.

And that's been the constant challenge ever since, to maintain the legacy but to find a way to do it that will work for today and for future generations.

[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Now this is the sort of place a pirate might warm to.

Johnnie and David have returned the route towards Torquay and the Harbor Town of Brixham, famed for fishing, smuggling, and also an annual pirate festival.

Probably very few of them as authentic as our Johnnie.

JOHNNIE WALKER: David, I've got to say, I'm not feeling hugely confident in what we've got.

I'm hoping this final shop, we're going to find something really special.

You want to go for the killer object.

NARRATOR: Blimey, Pirates, lacking confidence, surely not.

[MUSIC PLAYING] DAVID HARPER: I love this.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I love that.

It's very trendy.

Hello, John.

Hello there, how are you?

I'm all right, fine, how are you?

Very well, indeed.

Good David Harper.

Hello David, good to meet you.

I'm liking the pirate scarf there.

It's a nautical look.

NARRATOR: Yes, Captain John's got plenty of cargo in here.

DAVID HARPER: Tell me, did you use telescopes on Radio Caroline?

No, we didn't.

Looking for girls on shore?

No, no they used to come out to us.

We didn't need a telescope.

NARRATOR: Hey, let's have a closer peek on the poop deck.

JOHN: This is off the camera, from when she was broken up.

DAVID HARPER: So these are the real thing?

JOHN: These are the real thing.

They've taken out the original glass that was in them and now made them into good quality mirrors.

JOHNNIE WALKER: How many portholes were taken off the Cambra.

JOHN: God knows.

DAVID HARPER: I like the fact that it's all about recycling, yes that's very eco-friendly.

People like that.

Yeah, it's good.

And what worries me is the fact that we don't know how many are on the market.

How long have you been selling them for?

About two years.

DAVID HARPER: Does it open up, as well?

Is that what you're going to do?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Oh wow.

NARRATOR: Could a bit of ocean liner be the killer buy they're after?

The ticket price however is 195 pounds.

What's trade on these?

The very best?

Seriously.

Yeah.

120.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Wow.

What is the depth, John?

JOHN: It's gonna break my heart, this.

We'll be gentle with you.

90 pounds.

OK.

Very best.

NARRATOR: Now, it's been a long time since we heard from their rivals.

PHILLIP SERRELL: If you could have played in any band, which band would you have played in?

Oh wow, probably Led Zeppelin.

- Really?

- Yeah.

And what would you have done?

Guitar?

Drum?

Yeah, I would have replaced Jimmy Page, of course, I'd be much better than he.

I had heard that.

Personally, I'm more of a triangle or tambourine man.

Yeah, Jay Arthur Rank is gone.

Yeah, absolutely right.

NARRATOR: Those two are breezing the Zephyr towards the coast for a last look see around the antique shops of Paighnton.

BOB HARRIS: Good afternoon.

CELIA: Good afternoon.

You must be Richard.

I am.

I'm Bob.

Hello Bob, nice to meet you.

Yeah, this is Philip.

- I'm Phillip, how are you?

RICHARD: Hello Philip, good to see you.

How are you?

This looks as new as a pin here.

Yes, it does.

The shop I mean.

NARRATOR: Yeah, thankfully not the contents.

PHILLIP SERRELL: What's the cheapest thing in this shop?

Cheapest thin in the shop?

Probably me.

NARRATOR: I'm not sure that would be practical.

Anyway Phil has spotted something a bit smaller.

That's interesting, Bob, look.

NARRATOR: Hasn't traveled far either.

My mum had something very similar to this actually.

Everybody's mum had something like that.

Yeah.

That is Torquiware.

OK.

So this is a mid 20th century equivalent of a stick of rock.

This is rather attractive.

I think this is really, really undervalued.

BOB HARRIS: I like the motto, "May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live."

That'll do it.

NARRATOR: Or as another famous Bob once sang, (SINGING) "May you Stay Forever Young."

Meanwhile, back in Brixham.

What about an original gunpowder barrel?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Really?

JOHN: Because it's got the broad arrow on it.

Oh it's got the military stamp, JOHNNIE WALKER: Yep, MOD stamp.

JOHN: It's probably going to be about 1850.

PHILLIP SERRELL: So what would you do with that now?

I mean the natural thing to do-- What would you do?

You could put a glass top on it and make it into a coffee table.

Or a telephone table.

I'm a massive fan of Hornblower books.

I love all the stories about old troll masted sailing ships.

And look at the name of that-- What is this, Fighting Temeraire Antique Shop isn't, it?

JOHN: Temeraire means brave and foolhardy.

NARRATOR: The ticket price is 160 pounds.

DAVID HARPER: What sort of trade is that, John?

JOHN: 75 pounds.

I like that.

I really like that, a 19th century gunpowder barrel.

Yeah.

It's got a lot going for it.

Yeah.

That talks to me.

NARRATOR: Time for John to make a tactical withdrawal while they make up their minds.

JOHNNIE WALKER: What I love about it is, I think it's very rare.

It would be a talking point and it would be something special.

I agree.

JOHNNIE WALKER: And what about the rag?

Obviously it is what it is.

Some people might think it's a bit scruffy there.

You know what, if it was me and I bought that I'd remove the rag.

Polish it and glass top it.

But I think into auction it gives it authenticity doesn't it?

I mean, when you look at those, they might be real from a ship but it just says repro.

JOHNNIE WALKER: It does.

DAVID HARPER: So do we want to try and knock him down?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, just a bit.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Batten down the hatches, eh.

JOHNNIE WALKER: It's kind of between the porthole mirror and the barrel.

Right.

JOHNNIE WALKER: If I offered you 60 pounds for the gunpowder?

I got to get 70 for it.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Yeah, do you like compromise?

JOHN: What, 65 you're going to say?

Yeah, no I can't.

This is when we walk out pretend we've got to leave it.

Well you've just given that one away.

NARRATOR: You might as well try it now, chaps.

Shall we give it a go?

Let's just do it.

DAVID HARPER: See if he shouts us back.

JOHN: Come back.

It worked.

I think he's going to compromise.

Oh let's do it.

65.

Here you are.

Robert Joe.

Thank you, John.

NARRATOR: Nice work everyone.

Now is that it?

JOHNNIE WALKER: Hey, do you know what this is?

Warming pans, Johnnie, they used to sell well.

Yeah.

19th century, people used to hang them on the walls.

Yeah.

They don't hang them on the walls anymore.

Do they know, what you do is you fill them full of coals and stick them in your bed.

NARRATOR: Exactly right, Johnnie, but not really needed these days.

JOHN: I'm fed up with the sight of these.

I am.

So you can have these for a pound.

- Really?

- Take them away.

Really?

Yeah, I'm fed up with them and all the dogs keep peeing on them.

NARRATOR: Now that's what you call patination.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I'm going to give you 2 pounds for them.

JOHN: 2 pounds, good man.

Let's take these we'll come back for the-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] - You're here.

I'll have two.

We'll see you later.

JOHNNIE WALKER: Someone will find a good home for those.

(SINGING) Standing on the corner.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, in Peighton, the Torquiware is back on the shelf and there's a wall clock under consideration.

I'm big on my clocks.

Yeah.

How much is that one?

RICHARD: 35.

PHILLIP SERRELL: And there's presumably a deal to be done on that.

RICHARD: Yeah.

Is that a working clock though?

It's a bit of a project, really.

NARRATOR: Now there's a euphemism if I ever heard one.

BOB HARRIS: This would require a certain amount of DIY skill and practical skill.

I have no practical skills.

You know, to me, this is already very daunting.

PHILLIP SERRELL: There's an expression in our business, if the only thing you have to apologize for is the price.

Well with this you've got to start making hundreds of apologies.

So in my eyes, at auction, this is like 20 to 40 pounds worth which means we've got to try and buy it, if you'll let us, around the 15 quid mark.

NARRATOR: One for Richard to ponder while Bob turns on and tunes in.

PHILLIP SERRELL: What do you got there Bob?

Well not, a lot.

Oh.

There we go.

Now we couldn't come into this shop and see a Marconi radio, could we Phil and not discuss it and not consider it.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Can I just stop you for a minute?

Yeah go on.

There's the microphone.

Yay.

I want to give the intro to the Bob Harris Show, all right, let me just turn it on.

Count you down, 3, 2, 1.

BOB HARRIS: This.

Is Bob Harris country on BBC Radio 2.

What voice is that?

What a great moment that was.

BOB HARRIS: This is the kind of radio that my mom used to have in the 50s.

PHILLIP SERRELL: White case, isn't it?

Yeah, and it was my mom who was very responsible for me getting into radio.

Because it was listening, to listen with mother, with her.

NARRATOR: Sounds like it belongs in the Bob Harris collection.

PHILLIP SERRELL: That's the first thing I see.

BOB HARRIS: Oh I see.

DAVID HARPER: It's got three bits missing from it.

BOB HARRIS: Yes it has.

The next thing the auctioneer is probably going to say is this is electrical.

It's not been PAT tested, so we've got to cut the wire off.

Right.

When they cut the wire off, they don't cut it off down here to put a plug on.

They cut it off right at the back there so it can't be used.

So, disables it.

It disables it and you've then got to get it rewired.

But that's just me being miserable, right.

NARRATOR: He's got a reputation to maintain, you know.

PHILLIP SERRELL: I can make 20 to 30 pounds, ever so easily.

The price on it here is 65.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Yeah, Richard.

It's lovely, isn't it?

I love it and I want him to buy it.

With the best one in the world, what could you do that for?

35.

Phil.

And that's the absolute finish.

That would be it, yeah.

PHILLIP SERRELL: If he offered you 30 pounds, would that buy that?

I think as it's for Whispering Bob Harris and Philip Serrell, I think I could do it for 30 quid.

OK, one last question before we go any further.

- Yeah - The clock.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Yeah.

What's the very best you could do that for?

RICHARD: 20 quid.

So 50 for the two.

Well I'm going to go, yes, in that case.

That's great by me, you've got yourself a deal.

NARRATOR: Well neither of them may work, but they do look nice.

BOB HARRIS: Whispering Bob becomes smiling Bob because that's the job done.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Well done, mates, well done.

NARRATOR: The shops are now shut.

Time to share.

BOB HARRIS: Interesting collection.

It's quite a variety of things, isn't it?

What's this?

These are the Fisherman's flies.

It's by a London maker, Ogden Smith.

That looks a bit charity shop, doesn't it?

DAVID HARPER: Well you know what, you're bang on.

It's charity shop 15 years ago.

It's now cool and funky retro shop on Kensington High Street.

This is what I think.

This was my theory, David, now that makes it a bit more interesting.

Does it?

But I think if Bob tried to take that home, Trudy wouldn't let him in the house.

Now I thought one of us was either going to buy a record player Or radio.

Or a radio, it had to be well.

This was just there and it's a Marconi right.

BOB HARRIS: It's really rather lovely and-- Does it have a fluorescent tuning tube, where you get little lights that light up when-- NARRATOR: I'm not sure our experts are on quite the same wavelength.

I love the old radio.

You have to switch them on and wait for it to warm up.

It needs a bit of a conditioning.

I'll give you a couple of quid for it.

Reconditioning.

Yeah so.

Oh sorry.

Have you finished?

NARRATOR: Johnnie and David's turn.

JOHNNIE WALKER: There you go.

DAVID HARPER: There you go.

JOHNNIE WALKER: It's not as packed a table as yours.

Can I just ask what drew you to the dog?

JOHNNIE WALKER: This is a Scamp.

OK. JOHNNIE WALKER: Scamp is going to become very famous.

Yeah.

And is going to make a few quid.

Moving slightly away from Scamp.

Yes, I guess we've both bought sort of-- DAVID HARPER: It's fascinating, we know this once belonged to Lord Raglan.

Well we now know that this came from Lord Raglan as well.

DAVID HARPER: It never did.

It did now.

Yeah, but does it have an all-star?

It will have.

Give me a felt tip, give me a felt tip.

DAVID HARPER: Now what do you think of this beautiful barrel?

Is that gunpowder plot?

DAVID HARPER: Yeah gunpowder plot.

Yeah it came from a ship in Plymouth.

We have reason to believe it was Nelson's, from Ancient Mesopotamia It was from the powder.

That's what it was from.

Well, good luck Johnnie.

Good luck, Bob.

Thanks, we'll you there OK. NARRATOR: But what do they really think?

Philip's very rude about Scamp.

I think it's jealousy myself.

Of course.

I tell you what I really do like it there is the lantern barrel.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Everything else has cost them nothing.

BOB HARRIS: Yeah.

PHILLIP SERRELL: Whereas we've got jeopardy all the way down the line.

I like that picnic set.

I think that's very sweet and charming.

Yeah, it's not going to make much money though.

I loved it, really, it's been though.

I'm going to go now, that's it.

NARRATOR: After a whistle stop tour of the Southwest, our DJs are now in Wiltshire and heading for the auction in Salisbury.

BOB HARRIS: How are you feeling about all this?

A little bit nervous.

Funnily enough, so am I. Yeah.

I'm slightly apprehensive.

Because when we started this thing, we both say to each other, oh we don't care if we win.

But I want to win.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Let's rock.

Salisbury on the confluence of five rivers is an ancient city, also hold tight.

An old stomping ground of Dave Dee, Dozee, Beaky, Mick, and Tich.

Now then, the two coolest dudes in Britain.

Are you nervous?

JOHNNIE WALKER: We're going to do well, right confidence.

Should we go and see?

We're going to do well.

Lead the way, Bob.

NARRATOR: Has anything caught the eye of Netherhampton Sale room auctioneer, Richard Petty?

[INAUDIBLE] wall clock quite excited about that, probably the most valuable piece we've got here today.

Hopefully we'll see 100 pounds for it, be very disappointed if we make any less than 80 for it.

The pastel picture of Scamp the dog, all I can say is hope we got somebody in here today who have a little dog look very similar to that, of that I don't know.

Marconi radio is actually my favorite piece of all of them, would hope to make somewhere between 50 and 70 pounds of it.

If I was having the present for the day sale that's when I would like.

NARRATOR: Bob and Phil spent 260 pounds on six auction lots, while Johnnie and David acquired quite the same number for 196 pounds and 50 pence.

But with the bidding about to commence, there's been a complaint.

All the items we have got in the auction should be as is, Yeah.

- As you bought.

it.

- Oh yeah, That's how it is in the auction.

Of course.

But look at that, personally signed by music legend Bob Harris.

DAVID HARPER: What?

We never said that about you.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I'll sign all of my lots.

You're going to sign everything.

No, no, no we're talking about adding value.

NARRATOR: Oh, lordy.

First up, that somewhat controversial wireless.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I think an official complaint.

DAVID HARPER: Shall we do that, shall we start writing it now?

Yeah, I'll get Bob to sign it for you.

Only we'll start pointing the bid at 25 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, on that, 65, 65, 70, 75, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, That's like a restaurant there.

RICHARD PETTY: 105 [INAUDIBLE] won't find any more them, 105 You know, I'd start now.

105 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] Well done, well done, even though you cheated to be making it work.

NARRATOR: A great start, now for Johnnie's leg of mutton gun case.

[INAUDIBLE] start the bidding.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I'll sign it on the back.

He'll sign it.

I'll sign it.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I'll sign all my lots.

[INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHTER] I've got a couple of things, will you sign those as well?

[LAUGHTER] Right anyway.

I won't have time to buy that.

Have I got 15, 20?

Get it going.

RICHARD PETTY: 30, 35, have I got 40, 45.

[INAUDIBLE] 45 in the corner, 45 and 50, 55, 60, 60.

Your turn.

Go on.

I got 60.

You work here.

62.

62?

That's 62, 65 [INAUDIBLE] 65, anybody else for 65?

So this [INAUDIBLE] 65 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] Yorkshire.

NARRATOR: Well you can't always get what you want.

How about this?

Ideal for a trip in a Zephyr, what?

I think we'll start point bidding at 50, 50.

Now, that is very pretty.

50, 50 50, 50, 20 25, 30, 35 it's made, 40, 45, 50, 55 with me, with me 55.

Anybody else want to join in, 55?

The last chance on this [INAUDIBLE].. Unbelievable.

55 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] Remarkable Well done.

Well done, Well done.

NARRATOR: Those two are our current chart toppers.

Can Johnnie and David's little camera close the gap?

Holding 30.

[AUCTIONEER CHANT] 12 pounds, 15, 18, 20, 22, 22, Come on.

[AUCTIONEER CHANT] RICHARD PETTY: 22, 22.

Lovely case.

Keep going [AUCTIONEER CHANT] 22.

[GAVEL BANGING] JOHNNIE WALKER: We nearly doubled that.

- Almost.

- Good game.

That is all right, that is all right.

NARRATOR: It most certainly is.

Now it's Bob's bits of Portmeirion.

RICHARD PETTY: [INAUDIBLE] 50, 60 40, 30, 20 pounds.

You got yourself a 20 pound Portmeirion coffee set.

20, 10, 5 1/2, 5 pounds, 6 pounds, 8 pounds, 7 pounds, 12 pounds, 15, 18, 20, 25, on my right 25, 22, 25, 28, 30 pounds, 32, 35, 35, well fine by 35.

Anybody else?

So this [INAUDIBLE] 35 pounds.

Still plus.

Cheeky little fiver, it's a cheeky little fiver.

NARRATOR: Still upbeat and why not?

Next it's the turn of Johnnie's chandelier.

Who's got 50 pounds for It, cell mate?

50, 40, 30.

Feel free to join in somewhere.

This is going to go really quick.

There's a lot of people looking at their feet.

Shh, shh.

10 pound, 10 pounds, 10 pound, 10 pound, 10 pound, don't go showing this one boys and girls.

That 10 pound 10.

Anybody else?

10?

Oh no.

No.

No [INAUDIBLE] NARRATOR: What was that?

A 10 pound note.

NARRATOR: Not the worst loss ever but it doesn't help their cause.

That's all down to you, son.

Is it?

Yeah, that was your call, see how it turns.

Yeah no, but it's true.

It is true.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] NARRATOR: I'm surprised Bob hasn't signed his cartridge or cassette case.

25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 22, 25, 28.

I've got 30, 32, 35, 40 in the back, 40 pounds, 40 pounds, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 90, 95, 100, 100, another one?

100, 105, 105 in the corner, 105.

They're going to be getting five tomorrow?

105 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] NARRATOR: Almost wiped its face but it's a small loss after auction costs.

Can they catch a fat profit with this little item though?

50, 60, 40, 30, [INAUDIBLE] 35 pounds, 35, 35, 35, 35, 35, 32, 35, 38, 40 pounds, 42, 45, 45, on my right 45.

Anybody else want to join in?

At 45, 45, [INAUDIBLE] at 45 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] Oh.

Isn't that a shame.

Oh what a shame, guys, you lost a bit of money there.

NARRATOR: I think this is all about to kick off.

I didn't know I was competitive until like right now.

You wait till Scamp hits again, you wait.

NARRATOR: Yeah, not yet though because next up is their pirate pick, the powder barrel.

It's a kind of blank canvas there also, isn't it, because you can do stuff with it.

Well that's what we thought.

You could fill it full of gun powder.

Yes you could.

Johnnie, we might have to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to start the bidding at 25 pound, at 25 and me, 25 1/2, 25, 30, 35, with me?

35, 35, Anybody else want to join in?

35, 40, 45, 50, 55 55.

Come on.

RICHARD PETTY: 55, anybody else, 55.

Your last chance on this lot.

Go on.

RICHARD PETTY: So this time then, 55 pounds.

Oh, he should have given it a bit longer Oh, what four weeks?

NARRATOR: Yes, he definitely tried his best.

It's time for Bob and Phil's final lot.

The project.

Starting the bidding at 25 pounds.

At 25, I have 25, 25, 25, 25 with me, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, Oh you doing well here.

50, 55, 60, 65, 65, with me, with me, 65.

And a strong bid is that.

RICHARD PETTY: 65, your last chance on this one, being sold again then at 65 pounds.

Well done guys.

Well done.

What do you think?

Time flies.

NARRATOR: That's just about assured victory for those two, I'd say.

The figures don't look good, Johnnie.

They just don't look good.

Bob, what comes next?

Bob what comes next?

- Well, it's Scamp.

Exactly.

Everything is on Scamp now.

NARRATOR: He looked pretty cool under fire, doesn't he?

I've got to take it up the front.

OK. Because it's so beautiful.

NARRATOR: A celebrity endorsement.

JOHNNIE WALKER: I'm bringing this up the front.

NARRATOR: Oh bless a try.

This time we've got 30 pounds, Come on, Johnnie.

He's got 10, 5, 6, 8.

Go on, he's all over the place.

10, 12 15, 18, 20 pound, 22, 25, 28, 30 pounds, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 42, 42, including delivery at 42.

Anybody else?

[INAUDIBLE] sold this one then at 42 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] Well, done.

NARRATOR: Scamp and Johnnie did good.

I've got a sale next Thursday, do you want a job?

Yes.

NARRATOR: Finally, their bargain warming pans.

You could always keep your disks in them.

Well maybe not.

[INAUDIBLE] who's got 20 pounds?

10, 5.

Is this each?

Yeah, you'll be lucky.

Who's got 3?

Thank you, 3 pound and a half 3 pound, 3 pound, 3 pound, 3 pound, 3 pound, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10.

BOB HARRIS: Oh, you're on a roll, you're on a roll.

Come on.

12 pound, 12 pound, 12 pound, 12, 14, a bit of history you're buying here, 14, 14, 14, anybody else?

That's good.

They've done well for us.

At 14 pounds.

[GAVEL BANGING] 7 times [INTERPOSING VOICES] NARRATOR: Nice to end on a positive note.

Shall we go outside and work out the numbers?

- Yeah.

- Yeah Yeah, actually that's a good idea.

Come on then.

NARRATOR: Johnnie and David started out with 400 pounds, and made after paying auction costs a loss of 25 pounds and 94 pence.

While Bob and Phil also began with 400 pounds but after auction costs they made a profit of 76 pounds and 20 pence so they are today's winners by over 100 pounds.

All profits go to children in need.

It was an unfair fight, so.

We should do it all again.

We had the moral victory.

We did and we had Scamp.

We had Scamp, no one else had a Scamp.

JOHNNIE WALKER: We better go Bob.

- We should.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- All right thank you very much.

- I'll see you, Bob.

- See you guys - See you guys.

See you.

BOB HARRIS: Go for it Johnnie, put your foot down.

NARRATOR: Now there must be a second hand record shop around here, somewhere.

JOHNNIE WALKER: The moment they got in touch with me and they said, do you fancy doing "The Antique Road Trip".

They said Bob Harris is doing it.

I said, OK, I'll do it.

It was exactly the same with me.

And then they said do it, you'll be with Johnnie Walker.

Oh Yes.

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