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

Which way are the bargains?

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car... Do you know where we are?

No.

VO: ..and a goal, to scour Britain for antiques.

Act one, scene one.

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

Ta-da!

VO: But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners...

Woo!

Happy dance!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Heartbroken.

Close your ears.

VO: Will it be the high road to glory...

It's just delightful, isn't it?

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

VO: G'day road trippers, we're up and at 'em, just over halfway through this antiques odyssey.

PHIL: See, I've completely lost track of this now, who's winning, who's losing.

But as far as I'm concerned, Catherine, it's all about the journey.

Well, you've changed your tune.

PHIL: No, I haven't.

You wanted to win this.

What, me competitive?

I don't have a competitive bone in my body.

VO: Hey, don't you believe a word of it!

There are two auctions to go and our experts, Phil Serrell and Catherine Southon, are both in it to win it.

This week, I've decided that it's more important to be with you.

Oh, good.

Can I win, then?

What?

Don't know about that.

Give me some more money and let me win.

VO: Catherine's not exactly needing any help winning so far.

Oh!

VO: She certainly spotted a profit-making piece or two on their last shopping sortie... CATHERINE: This is like Christmas and my birthday all in one, this is wonderful.

VO: Ha-ha!

While Phil went to the dogs.

Isn't he just so sweet?

VO: And at auction, Mr Serrell turned a meager profit of £12.40.

SYBELLE: At 10.

And I'm selling it, make no mistake, at 10... You are, aren't you?

PHIL: Yeah.

(LAUGHS) SYBELLE: At 10.

At £10.

Fantastic.

VO: And not even enough to buy a ticket to Dismal-land - ha!

While Catherine romped home with a magnificent profit of £118.50.

CATHERINE: Walk of fame!

PHIL: Alright, alright, alright.

VO: That means Catherine is leading two to one in our best-of-five battles.

CATHERINE: Do you know where we are?

PHIL: No, not a clue.

VO: Ha ha!

Phil goes into this leg with 695 in his kitty.

While Catherine has £580.

You just seem to keep going straight and not turning, which is slightly concerning me.

I think we need to go that way.

VO: That way is our road trip west to east.

We started in Bristol before foraging through Hampshire and Surrey... (CAR ENGINE) VO: ..and all in this natty replica Morgan Roadster.

CATHERINE: Don't crash the car.

PHIL: Yeah.

VO: No, that would not be good for morale or the budget.

Ha!

Besides, we need to press on.

Catherine and Phil are road-tripping from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, through to Hertford, Hertfordshire.

That's if they stay awake long enough.

Do you know I don't get out much, but I just wonder why is there a hedge on that side and nothing on that side?

God, you are really, really boring!

Why would anyone even think that?

And this is really interesting because now... That is a big ditch.

..the hedge is on that side and the ditch is on the other and there's no hedge on this side.

They've swapped over miraculously.

That's the countryside for you.

It's very unpredictable, bit like you, Phil.

VO: Let's see if we can spice things up with unpredictable Phil.

After dropping Catherine off, he's heading to our first shopping stop in Aylesbury, a town that in 1971 played host to the debut performance of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

Ah, now that is exciting!

Starman Philip is making his debut at the Vintage Shop.

VO: Just the one room, but it is jam-packed with cabinets and shelves overflowing with goodies.

Remember, Phil has £695 to spend and Darren's the man hoping to relieve him of some of that cash.

Hi, Darren.

First to catch Phil's eye... PHIL: I think those are really lovely.

First World War silk postcards.

VO: They're priced between £5 and £9 each.

This is a prime example that the head's got to overrule the heart because I don't think there's a profit in those.

VO: Serrell's not that soft, then.

Ha-ha-ha!

He needs to find something that might make him some cash.

Let's see what the opposition is up to.

Catherine's in Wendover, five miles downstream.

It's a well-appointed market town at the foot of the Chiltern Hills.

There, she's headed to her first shop, the straightforwardly named Antiques at Wendover, where dealer Mike is ready to give her a warm welcome.

CATHERINE: Oh, oh, you're warming your cockles there.

VO: Time to find some hot bargains.

Ha-ha!

There are two floors with 35 dealers displaying oodles of antiques.

VO: Oh, what have we got here?

I like anything with an elephant on.

So, an ebonized, essentially a page-turner.

VO: Used, oddly enough, for turning the pages of a book or newspaper, ha-ha!

VO: This page-turner, or perhaps paper knife, is made of wood which has been chemically blackened or ebonized.

VO: Really.

Unusual that, isn't it?

Perhaps could have been a tourist piece, something like this, but you often find page-turners in all manner of mediums.

It's got £128 on it, which is an awful lot of money.

CATHERINE: They are collected, I think it's about 1920s in date.

I'm going to ask the opinion of Mike.

Have you found something?

CATHERINE: I have.

Well, I've found this ebonized page-turner, I just had to pick it up because it's got an elephant on.

Do you like it?

You're the one who's going to buy it, I hope.

Well, maybe, maybe, if the price could be right, we can maybe do something on that.

OK, that's one for me to think about and not forget.

MIKE: Not forget.

(CHUCKLES) CATHERINE: Ah, you see?

CATHERINE: Wonderful.

I'm going to put it there, I'm going to carry on and I might come back.

MIKE: OK. CATHERINE: Thank you.

VO: One item reserved.

Catherine will do another lap of the shop.

VO: Right, what's that, then?

So, these are what we call vintage, essentially, glass beads.

(TAPPING ON TEETH) And they're graduated.

CATHERINE: They're actually quite a nice length as well and they're made from...from glass beads, so they're made in Murano, Italy.

VO: The island of Murano, north of the city of Venice, has been famous for producing fine glass objects since the 13th century, don't you know?

CATHERINE: But they're all individually decorated and all hand-painted.

They're not quite my cup of tea and not the sort of thing that I would wear, but they are still very decorative and something that people do buy.

They would have been bought, I would have thought, often by people who were visiting the island of Murano, so they were quite mass-produced, but even so, I think they're still rather pretty.

CATHERINE: They've dated them to 1950s, which is probably about right.

VO: £55 is on the ticket.

I'm gonna go and try them on.

VO: Very sensible.

Try before you buy.

CATHERINE: You see, actually, they're a really nice length.

They're vintage, they're quite desirable and I think if I can get these at the right price, we may be on to a winner.

Mike, what do you think?

They look really nice on you.

CATHERINE: Do you like that?

MIKE: Yes.

Are you just saying that?

No, no, no.

They're not my style, but they look very good.

Well, they're not my style at all, but I think they're vintage, they're hand-blown, they're hand-made.

So...

I can't remember what was on these, actually?

VO: Can't you?

I can.

MIKE: £55 is on them.

55.

Right, OK, I'm going to try and see if we can do a bit of a deal there on those.

I'll tell you what.

I did bring down said elephant because you seemed to be interested in him.

CATHERINE: I am interested in him.

MIKE: There is £128 on the ticket, what are you thinking?

I'm gonna make you an offer, then on that.

MIKE: OK. Erm...my price on that would be about £60.

If we bundle it with the necklace, maybe we can do something.

What's your bundle?

MIKE: Elephant and necklace, £100 for the two.

I was hoping to buy these for about 25.

Any chance we could do a little bit less?

OK. Just to beat Philip Serrell and... CATHERINE: 85.

MIKE: ..wish you well.

85 for the two.

CATHERINE: Wonderful.

MIKE: That's a deal.

CATHERINE: Thank you so much.

VO: Very generous, I'd say.

Two buys in the old bag.

£495 left in the kitty.

Catherine's off to a smashing start.

The weirdest combination.

VO: Back in Aylesbury... Phil's still perusing the wares.

You see, glassware is really quite sought-after.

This is Sommerso, which is Venetian.

PHIL: But that's a really stylish thing, and the thing that really appeals to me is, we're kind of... we're a similar shape, really.

And I think that's an omen for us.

I would think it's produced probably in the last 25 years of the 20th century.

PHIL: There's no damage and it's £20.

You know...

So, you know what they say, in for a penny, in for £20.

VO: That's not what they say, Phil, but it's a nice-looking piece.

Technically, this is not an antique, but, you know, it's a work of art and you shouldn't dismiss things just on an age factor only.

Otherwise, I'd have been gone years ago.

VO: Did Philip just call himself a work of art?

The man has no filter!

Let's go and see Darren.

I think that's really lovely.

Do you know, not even I am mean enough to try and bid you on that, so £20.

£20, thank you very much.

PHIL: Give us a handshake.

Take care, bye bye.

VO: That leaves Phil with £675.

He's on foot for now because Catherine's got the motor.

Ha!

I have to say I am pretty much on cloud nine at the moment because I've had such a lovely time filming with Phil.

Phil has not been grumpy this week.

He has been amazing fun and I'm driving this beautiful, rather sleek Morgan through the countryside.

The sun is shining.

What more could you ask for?

VO: And with the sun shining, it's the perfect day for that.

Catherine's taking a breather from shopping and motoring to the town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

She's paying a visit to the British Film Institute National Archive to find out how our nation's film history is being kept alive for future generations.

Wow.

This is a dream.

VO: The archive is home to over 175,000 films, everything from Coppola to Tarantino, and 800,000 TV shows in between.

I bet Antiques Road Trip is in there somewhere!

Ha!

Kieron Webb, the BFI's Head of Conservation, can tell us more.

KIERON: Hello.

CATHERINE: Hi.

KIERON: Welcome.

CATHERINE: You must be Kieron.

That's right, welcome to the BFI.

CATHERINE: Gosh, this is incredible.

Rows and rows and rows of canisters of film.

They're all film, are they?

All film in this vault.

This is just one of three on this site and we have more films and videos on another location.

So, you have this times three?

And more.

Oh, wow!

VO: Until the relatively recent arrival of digital media, most movies were shot and stored on photographic film.

These cans full of film make up the bulk of the BFI's collection.

How was this all set up?

How did it come about?

The BFI was founded in 1933, so we're celebrating our 90th anniversary, and the idea was it could have a collection of films that could be lent for educational purposes.

KIERON: But it was small, it had very few films and it had only two people working for it.

Ernest Lindgren was the first curator of the archive and Harold Brown joined as a tea boy in 1935 and became a world-renowned film preservation expert.

VO: Ernest Lindgren pioneered many of the standard practices of film preservation, acquisition and cataloging.

Together, Lindgren and Harold Brown formed a formidable partnership that lasted decades.

They were part of a wave of film libraries begun in the '30s to protect film after the end of silent cinema.

KIERON: This is Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

So, it probably counts as a classic... CATHERINE: All of these?

KIERON: ..in the mid-'40s.

So, as you can see, it says, "Reel six of six."

CATHERINE: Ah!

KIERON: So, it tells you... KIERON: You know when you've got the whole film.

And that's six of these cans to make that one feature film.

This is very exciting.

Can we...can we actually... can I hold this?

KIERON: Yeah, give it a go.

CATHERINE: Hold the can?

KIERON: So, hold the can either side, you bring it out slowly and you'll feel, erm, there's a weight to it.

This is history.

This is history.

Yeah.

Yeah.

VO: In his early days, Lindgren had his work cut out to establish the archive.

In order to create a comprehensive library and preserve the films they collected, Lindgren and Brown needed to make copies of them.

So Brown designed and built a printer, using Meccano, wood, his wife's sewing machine and also what his colleagues would tease him was knicker elastic at the time.

Things have come a long way over the last 90 years.

I'm pretty sure there's no underwear holding things together in the BFI laboratory today.

Just restoration expert Karen.

Hello!

Oh, hi, Catherine.

I'm guessing this is conservation, conservation lab.

Yes, this is.

CATHERINE: Wonderful, OK. VO: We say in the trade, "Every day's a learning day," so Catherine's in the hot seat.

KAREN: So, this is, erm, a print of a black-and-white silent film from 1926, Nell Gwyn.

CATHERINE: Mmm.

What we would expect... Actually, if you stop here, this is a bit... CATHERINE: Bit of a mark there.

KAREN: ..of print-through.

CATHERINE: Yeah.

So that would have been damage on the 1926 film that has printed through, as it's been copied.

Right, I see what you mean, as it's gone through.

I can see exactly what you mean now, there's a little sort of mark here.

This is incredible.

Wow!

VO: Karen will restore that damage later.

There's still time for one final filmic treat.

KIERON: So, here we are... CATHERINE: Oh!

..in our viewing theater, you're finally going to get to watch a movie.

So, this is our little mini cinema.

VO: Turn your phones to "silent" and take your seat.

The movie is about to begin.

This film, 'The Open Road', filmed by Claude Friese-Greene, a British-born film-maker, shows a jolly road trip around the UK.

KIERON: He started in Cornwall, he went up on the northwest side, up into Scotland and then he finished this final episode of this serial in London.

CATHERINE: Look at that!

Oh, look at London!

So, this is London in the '20s?

Yeah, in '26.

VO: Most films in this period were, of course, black and white.

Friese-Greene used a technique he and his father William developed to introduce color.

KIERON: It was an experimental, natural color process of the time and what we found was a way to restore the colors without flickering.

KIERON: So, it's not colorized.

CATHERINE: Right.

This is the colors that were captured by Claude Friese-Greene.

VO: This restoration has allowed us to see the work of the original heroic road-tripper in the true and glorious colors he intended.

Know what?

Actually I might watch it again.

Shall we get popcorn this time?

Good idea.

VO: No time, Catherine, thank you.

You and Phil need to get back on the modern-day road trip.

Ha!

Are you good at gardening?

PHIL: My wife loves gardening, she asked me to mow the lawn years ago, so I mowed everything.

PHIL: Hedges, flower borders, fish pond, I mowed the lot.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) PHIL: Never been asked since.

VO: Work smarter, not harder, eh?

Nighty night.

VO: Next morning, back on the road and still surprising each other.

You did a degree?

CATHERINE: Yes.

PHIL: Really?

PHIL: God, you hide that well.

CATHERINE: Yes.

PHIL: Really... CATHERINE: Yes, no, I did, yes.

What was it in?

Art history.

What did you do your degree in?

My main subject was PE.

CATHERINE: Right.

PHIL: What do you mean, "right"?

I can see that.

Yeah, sylph-like frame.

Well, you've come a long way.

(LAUGHS) VO: They've both come a long way.

All the way from Aylesbury, where Phil found a vase modeled on his honed physique.

We're a similar shape and I think that's an omen for us.

He's got £675 left in his pocket.

And from Wendover, where Catherine adorned herself with a 1950s necklace and who could forget that elephant-headed page-turner?

I like anything with an elephant on.

VO: Her budget is now £495.

There's more shopping to do, but not before a little more Serrell employment history.

I worked in the cattle market in Worcester, cleaning the muck out of the sheep pens.

A task many people think I was still under-qualified for.

Yeah, that's not great, was it?

Not one of your finer parts of your life.

No, no, no.

VO: Hold on, Catherine, they do say where there's muck, there's brass.

Maybe Phil was on to something after all.

First hop this morning is over to Sawbridgeworth, right on the Essex border.

VO: There's plenty of room for two in Maltings Antiques.

There's even two doors and inside, three floors of goodies, so they should have plenty of room to themselves.

Remember, Phil has £675, while Catherine has £495.

Neither has found much so far.

Maybe Phil can lend Catherine a helping hand.

Huh!

How are you getting on?

Brilliantly.

Not me, kid, I just don't know what to do, do you?

What d'you mean, you don't know what to do?

It's a shop, have you got money?

Is there any money in there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you just can't see the wood for the trees, can you?

Why you always moaning?

Why are you moaning?

PHIL: Well... CATHERINE: Be happy.

..I just don't know what to do next.

(SCREAMS) Sorry, sorry.

VO: Catherine, you gave dealer Gavin quite a shock.

CATHERINE: Why do you do this to me?

I'm so sorry, I love you dearly.

CATHERINE: That is really horrible, Phil.

I just want to keep my hand in.

Come on.

What...

I just want to keep my hand in.

I'm gonna go now.

Ow!

VO: This isn't helping Catherine's hunt at all.

Back to browsing.

Staring at me here, this, if I'm not mistaken, is a cheese mold, or they've called it a cheese-making bucket, a cheese mold.

CATHERINE: And we know it's a cheese mold because it's got the perforations around it.

So, what would happen is you would put... when the cheese was made, you pop the cheese inside here and push it all down, leave it to mature in here.

It's mid-century, I think, today, you could probably use it...I don't know, would you want to put your utensils in there in the kitchen?

I don't know.

If not, that would look perfect in the garden with a few herbs in.

Yes, sir, this piece of rust at... how much - £45 - is coming to auction with me.

VO: Let's see what dealer Agnieszka has to say about it.

I have walked miles around your emporium, seen some beautiful things and I come with...a piece of rust.

Excellent.

Catherine, how's 25 sound?

25 sounds perfect to me.

VO: Nicely done.

Catherine now has £470 left.

Upstairs, Phil's drawn to something that really appeals to him.

You've got a swing-frame toilet mirror.

I mean, for me, this kind of...doesn't look English.

PHIL: You'd think it was 19th century, but the thing that kind of holds me back here is that if you look at these two columns, the capitals here, they project over this really lovely architectural frieze which makes me think the whole thing may have been made up.

Because, you know, that's a really bad design fault, isn't it?

But I'll have a word with the guy that owns it.

I mean, I think it's a cool thing.

There doesn't appear to be a price on it.

VO: With no ticket attached, it's time to get some help from dealer Gavin.

Gavin, can I have a word with you about yon mirror?

Yep, sure, sure.

Er, I like that.

I think it's quite interesting.

Yeah.

It's kind of continental, isn't it?

I mean, I bought it because of the frosting on the plate, if I'm honest, it's the decorative look.

PHIL: I couldn't see a price on it.

GAVIN: I've got that marked at £50.

PHIL: Are you open to offers on it?

GAVIN: Yeah.

I can take offers on that, yeah.

Did you buy it right, Gavin?

I did buy it right.

How right, Gavin?

How right?

Reasonably, reasonably well, reasonably right.

How does 30 quid sound?

£30 for it, I'll do £30.

You're a gentleman, thank you very much, Gav, you're a star.

GAVIN: Perfect.

PHIL: Now tell me it cost you a fiver.

GAVIN: I'm saying nothing, I'm saying nothing.

PHIL: Oh, Gav!

VO: Phil may be forced to reflect on that deal.

He's left with £645 in his kitty.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) PHIL: What have you got?

CATHERINE: What have you got?

I tell you what, I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.

Well, I bought rust, it's very Serrell.

Woodworm.

I prefer mine, d'you want to buy it?

No, no, no.

CATHERINE: Why not?

This is right up your street.

PHIL: No, no, no, no.

VO: Time for our pair to split once again and head off in alternate directions.

Phil's deposited Catherine and kept hold of the Morgan.

PHIL: Isn't this brilliant?

Driving round the lanes of southern England, looking at the countryside in a lovely car.

PHIL: And do you know what?

This really is a lovely car, it hasn't broken down once, yet.

VO: The ever reliable Morgan is taking him to Flamstead and, eventually, to Retrovation.

VO: Open by appointment only and based on a working farm, Phil has £645 to spend in this emporium, founded by dealer Dawn.

VO: It's horses for courses in here, ha-ha, but no time to pet the ponies for Phil, he's got treasure to find.

PHIL: What I love about this, it's got this kind of red-hide...upholstery in it.

PHIL: And actually, I think this may have been altered at some point in time.

PHIL: I wonder whether this is almost like an old dentist's chair?

If you come and have a look at the back, you can just see here, look.

There's something gone on there.

Whether there's been a headrest there, but then, I mean, I would think 80 or 100 years ago, it's been upholstered in this hide or leather, which I think makes it look really attractive.

PHIL: It was made by Norton & Co, who were Birmingham cabinet-makers.

I wouldn't mind betting that if you looked up Norton & Co, you might find that they perhaps made barbers' chairs or dentists' chairs or doctors' chairs.

PHIL: And if you sit in it, at the end of the day, is it comfortable?

You know what?

This is definitely for the man with the fuller bottom and in that respect, I'm probably quite well qualified.

I like this.

I'm going to try and buy this.

But I think this is such a cool shop.

I want to see if I can put a bit of a parcel together.

VO: There's £300 on the ticket, so worth a chat with dealer Dawn later.

VO: 20 miles away, Catherine is in Hertford.

This county town was named imaginatively after "hert", a stag, and "ford" where stags are found.

No nonsense, eh?

I like it.

Similarly simple is Catherine's task at Rossi's Attic - find a piece of history that can turn a profit at auction.

Attagirl!

Perfectly placed.

(RINGS BELL) VAZ: Good morning!

Good morning!

VAZ: Morning!

Hello!

Please do look around and if there's anything I can help you with, I'm here.

Good.

VO: That's dealer Vaz.

Remember, Catherine has 470 left in her kitty.

Ooh.

VO: 'Ello, 'ello, 'ello!

What have we got 'ere then?

CATHERINE: That's quite interesting.

So, this is like a policeman's helmet.

So, if you think about policemen's helmets from the '50s, '60s, '70s, they were very tall, so they would have been sort of high up here, whereas this one is actually very low down and I think there's a reason for this.

VO: The helmet, known as a Belfast bowler, was issued by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, now the Police Service of Northern Ireland, in the 1960s.

There's history for you.

It's black, so we know that this is a night-time...helmet, as opposed to one that would have been used during the day, which would have been more silver or white.

But it's very worn here.

Can you see right there?

And I guess that's where...there we are, fits nicely.

You have to keep taking off the hat, so keep taking the helmet off, and every time you're doing that, if you think you're doing it all the time, you're going be...keep rubbing here.

VO: There's £110 on the ticket.

CATHERINE: It is a bit worn, but I quite like that.

This is totally outside my normal area, but I'm really, really interested in this.

CATHERINE: I think it's a good piece of history.

What do you think?

VO: Hmm, don't give up the day job.

Ha-ha!

Now, is Phil keeping the peace in Flamstead?

Or is he horsing about?

Ha-ha!

PHIL: It's a road trip, basically... PAUL: Yeah.

PHIL: ..and we have to go around buying things, right?

And to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever bought a pony before.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) PHIL: So, how much is he?

PAUL: Oh, this one's priceless.

PHIL: Really?

Oh, yeah, he'll stay in the family for ever.

Will he?

There's a very thin dividing line between priceless and worthless.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) VO: Why the long face, Phil?

That pony's priceless.

What about these ones?

I don't even know what they're made of.

Are they metal or are they... Or are they wood?

No, they're not.

They're covered in fabric or something.

Dawn!

Hi, Phil.

How are you?

Good.

There's a lot of things in life that I don't understand.

And there are four of them here.

What are those?

DAWN: These are beautiful, these are leather horses.

PHIL: They're quite stylish in a way.

DAWN: They've got some real age to them.

This is a lovely collection, to have four...

DAWN: I bought them well, so these...

If you bought them well, you can sell them well.

I can and for you, Phil, I will.

PHIL: Right, well what I'm gonna do is, I'm going to have a good look round.

If I can find something else, I might try and buy a package off you, if that's alright.

DAWN: Ooh.

That'd be lovely.

PHIL: Thank you, thank you.

VO: Good idea.

Off you trot, then.

Back to Catherine in Hertford.

Oh, I love this chair.

CATHERINE: Oh, this is fantastic and it swivels.

Look at that!

All made from bamboo and I would say this is probably late '60s, early '70s.

CATHERINE: I really like this.

I think this is a great thing, let me test this out... Yeah, I like it, it needs a cushion.

But it is very much one of those, dare I say, statement pieces that people want these days.

I think at the right price... this has to be a winner.

VO: The bad news is, there's no ticket on this piece, so we'd better have a chat with dealer Vaz.

Right, helmet, chair... Time to talk to Vaz.

VO: That's what I said.

Remember, the police helmet has £110 on the ticket.

VAZ: Oh, brilliant.

CATHERINE: What do you think?

Try it on.

This is my favorite, I love this.

Do you?

Yeah, look, it fits perfectly.

Hello, hello, hello!

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) VO: Oh, I say!

Looks good on you.

VAZ: Oh, thank you, thank you very much.

What is your sort of price on this?

The very best that we can do, unfortunately, is £40.

40, OK, alright.

I'm gonna think about that one.

VAZ: OK, that's fine.

CATHERINE: Lovely.

The chair, this wonderful bamboo, egg-shaped... VAZ: Oh, yes.

CATHERINE: ..chair, sort of 1970s.

VAZ: Yes.

Could you do £40 on that?

If you buy both, I will do £40 each.

OK, so 40 for the hat and 40 for the chair.

CATHERINE: Done.

VAZ: Thank you.

VO: That's a steal.

CATHERINE: There we are.

VO: Thanks, Vaz.

VAZ: Fantastic.

£80.

I'm gonna come back for the chair.

VAZ: Brilliant.

CATHERINE: Enjoyed it.

Behave yourself!

Have a good day, officer!

Thank you, bye bye!

Bye bye!

VO: I doff my cap to you, Catherine.

An expert piece of negotiation, leaving you with £390 in the kitty.

In Flamstead, Phil's still got £645 in his.

Any more items to add to the shopping list?

I have to tell you, these are things I have a natural aversion to.

Scales and I do not get on and I've got two of these.

PHIL: I like this cuz it's W&T Avery Limited who were Birmingham scale-makers.

But I quite like the fact that this one has got "standard" written on the side.

Which one should I go for?

I mean, it's all down to price, really.

VO: Yeah, with no ticket, time to talk to Dawn and maybe do a deal.

PHIL: Dawn, how are you doing?

Alright?

Good, thanks.

PHIL: I just wondered, have you got any vices at all?

Vices?

(LAUGHING) That got me!

DAWN: We've all got some vices.

PHIL: I couldn't help myself then.

VO: Is that what you call a dad joke?

Ha!

PHIL: Erm, I'd like to talk turkey with you.

There's three things I'd like to buy - the chair, the scales and the four horses.

OK, what can you do?

I can do...the death is 350.

Lovely, thank you so much.

And, well, look, there... Ooh, wow!

What can I say?

VO: And that's Phil all shopped up.

Off he trots with £295 left in his pocket.

All I've got to do now is find some hay.

PHIL: Have you had a good day?

Yeah.

I've missed being with you all the time.

PHIL: Oh, that is so sweet of you to say.

CATHERINE: No, I have enjoyed it, though.

CATHERINE: It's been good.

PHIL: Yeah, it's been good fun.

And my driving's improved.

PHIL: I wouldn't go that far... Well, we haven't hit anything.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHING) The car's still intact!

VO: Well, just about, but we're not home and dry just yet, auction next.

For now, though, time for shuteye.

VO: Time to face the music.

It is auction day.

We find ourselves in Norfolk, in the sleepy market town of Aylsham.

How'd you reckon?

We're gonna do brilliantly.

PHIL: Really?

CATHERINE: Yeah.

Absolutely.

# I got a feeling... # Come on.

VO: Our pair have scoured the shops of the Home Counties before hauling their wares east, returning to Keys Fine Auctioneers once more.

With bids on the books, on the net and up close and personal in the saleroom.

Henry Hammond is taking charge today.

£40 and done then... VO: Catherine spent £190 on five lots, including her 1970s bamboo and rattan swivel armchair.

What do you think, Henry?

A very much on-trend bamboo chair, very nice piece, should suit the modern home.

VO: Jolly good.

Now, Phil spent twice as much, £400, on his five lots.

Thoughts, Henry?

HENRY: Nice-looking mirror, Biedermeier-influenced style, should be reasonably popular.

Nice, compact size.

Yeah, like it.

VO: Well then, let's get down to business, shall we?

How exciting!

HENRY: 55, only bid.

Are we all done then at £55?

CATHERINE: Look at our lots.

PHIL: Well, what do you reckon?

We got good things, Phil.

Let's be positive.

HENRY: Chelsea porcelain-shaped dishes... VO: First up, Phil's Murano glass vase.

It's kind of a burgundy color.

It's a bit dull, isn't it?

You've changed.

Straight in we go, then.

£5, eight now on the internet.

Come on.

HENRY: Could get into double figures.

At 10.

At 10, 12 now, internet.

At 12, we have got to double figures.

PHIL: Only just.

CATHERINE: You seem surprised.

At 12, 15 now, anybody else, then?

CATHERINE: Oh, Phil!

HENRY: At 15...

This is a tragedy.

HENRY: At 18.

CATHERINE: Yes!

HENRY: And at 18, at 18, 20 then.

At 20, two then.

Yeah, you've made a profit!

22, 22, 22, 25... PHIL: How has that happened?

HENRY: 25.

25, 28 then, at 28, 28.

HENRY: This side, do you want to go 30?

No?

At £28 and done then...

I just knew it, I just knew it.

Away we go!

Slam dunk!

Right, that's enough for me, I'm off now.

VO: Oh, Phil, enough joshing!

It's not a bad start, plenty still to come.

28!

Mind you, we're talking as if it's millions, but even so... Oh, well, you know, I can recognize a good bit of glass when I see it.

HENRY: At 55, 60, at 60, at 60... VO: More Murano now, but it's Catherine's this time.

How will she fare with her beaded necklace?

You're just copying me!

No, I'm not, Phil.

PHIL: You are.

CATHERINE: No, I'm not.

I didn't think you liked Murano.

I think I probably bought mine before you bought yours.

Oh, no, you didn't.

Oh, no, you didn't!

Straight in here then at £22 on the internet.

Get in!

No, I haven't made any money yet.

HENRY: 22, 25, 25, 28.

Come on!

For the beads.

HENRY: 28, 28, 30, 30, two, 32, 32.

Internet then at 32, anybody else then?

On the internet then at £32... VO: Molto bene, eh?

Another little profit.

I think we should have stuck to buying glass.

Glass...glass all the way.

Well, I've always liked glass.

VO: Well, it's not glass next, but the first of our furniture lots.

Phil's 19th-century library chair.

£15 on this... A whole £15!

18, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42...

There's a man there, he wants that chair.

50, five, 60.

Anybody else then?

HENRY: At 60.

CATHERINE: Come on.

HENRY: Go on, the internet, 65, 70, 75 then.

HENRY: 80, at 80.

CATHERINE: Come on.

HENRY: Anybody else then?

At 80.

At £80.

I'd love to buy that again for £80.

Yeah.

PHIL: Oh!

VO: Ouch!

That's a loss of £70 and leaves Phil with some catching up to do.

Maybe stick to glass.

Glass chairs?

Glass chairs, yes!

HENRY: A Paragon cup and saucer... VO: Catherine again now with her ebonized elephant-head page-turner.

It's got a really nice, big elephant's head.

PHIL: How much was it?

It was £60 and I don't know why I paid so much for it.

Where are we gonna be on this one?

HENRY: £5 to start for that then, anyone?

Oh, come on, it's got an elephant!

HENRY: At five, at five, at five.

It's a maiden bid then of £5 and done then... That's made me feel so much better.

VO: Oh, dear.

That's one to forget.

I don't think he mentioned the elephant.

I don't... That was the selling point.

I don't think he needed to.

VO: Let's see if Phil is still smiling after his leather horses go under the hammer.

That's straight in then at five, at eight now, 10, 12, at 12, 15, 18, 20.

At 22 now, internet at 22, 25, 25, 25.

PHIL: This is going well.

HENRY: 28 then.

No.

28, 30, at 32, 32, 35, 38 then.

No.

HENRY: At 38, 38, 40.

42 then, at 42, 45, 45, 48 then.

HENRY: At 48.

You might actually be galloping away here.

HENRY: 55.

This side, do you want to go 60?

At 60, five, 65, 70 then.

At 70, five, 75, 80 then, at 85 then.

You are lucky, my friend.

£85 and done then.

VO: That's a loss, I'm afraid, Phil.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

CATHERINE: Well done.

PHIL: Shut it.

VO: At least they're in good spirits.

Catherine's swish swivel chair up now.

£40.

I mean, what's it worth?

Come on, you know about this sort of thing.

Annoyingly, I think there's a profit in this.

Yes!

At five, we're bid straight in then at five, at five, at five, at five, at five, at eight now.

At eight, at eight, 10 then, at 10, 12.

Oh, come on, seriously?

HENRY: At 12, 15.

CATHERINE: What?

15, 18, 18 in the room, 20 then, 22.

I would buy that all day long.

HENRY: 22, 22.

You did.

HENRY: 22.

In the room and go on the internet if you're going to, you're hovering, 25, 25.

Come on, come on.

HENRY: 28 then.

At £28 in the room then... VO: Oh, tough crowd today, that's a bargain.

You're enjoying this, aren't you?

You're having a whale of a time.

VO: Let's see if the balance can be tipped Phil's way with his scales up next.

This thing cost me £80.

I thought they were nice, I'm now having a second opinion.

That's quite a lot of money.

Yeah, alright!

Where are we gonna start on these then?

£5, at eight then, at eight, at eight, at 10 then, at 10, 12, at 12, 15, 15, 18.

HENRY: At 18, 20 then, at 20.

Oh...

I'm really glad he came.

25, 25, 28 then, 30 then, at 30...

This is a result, let me tell you.

I'm surprised.

Alright!

Anybody else then?

At £30 in the front then... VO: Phil will have to scale down his expectations of profit today.

All going well, isn't it?

CATHERINE: You were lucky there.

PHIL: Oh, thanks a lot!

That could have been worse.

VO: Will the long arm of the law snag Catherine a profit?

Her policeman's helmet coming up.

Straight in here then at £22 on the internet, 22, 25.

CATHERINE: Oh.

HENRY: 25, 25, 25... Oh, come on, I need more than that.

25, 28 now, at 28, 30, two, 32, 35, 38.

Just one profit.

HENRY: 38, 40 now, at 40 right at the back then.

Come on!

Come on, come on, we're so near.

At £40 and done then... Ugh.

VO: Even Stevens, but Catherine will be disappointed with that.

It's all going well, this, isn't it?

Eh?

What do you reckon?

I reckon we should give up.

VO: Come on, buck up, guys.

One lot each still to go, Phil's Biedermeier-style mirror.

Shall I tell you why I bought it?

Yeah.

Because I thought I could see a profit in it.

(GAVEL) I thought you were going to actually say something quite intelligent then.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) Straight in here, five, at eight then, at eight, 10 then, at 10, at 10, 12, 15, 15...

It's a good-looking thing.

15, 18, 20, at 20, two then...

It has to double, at least.

At 22, anybody else want to come in then?

CATHERINE: (GROANS) PHIL: (LAUGHS) At £22 to the internet then.

VO: Only a small loss, but it's been a tough day for Phil.

Oh, Phil, I'm actually genuinely really sorry for that because that was £95 or 100 all day long.

Well, it wasn't 22 quid, was it?

Or whatever it made.

Oh, that is wrong!

HENRY: Straight in then at... VO: Catherine's final chance to nibble a profit with her cheese mold.

Straight in here then at £5, at five, at eight then, at eight.

25 I paid.

At 10 then, at 12, 15, 15, 18.

At 18, 20, at 20, two now.

Keep going, I might just make a profit.

25.

Yes, yes!

Internet at 28.

Yes!

HENRY: 28 on the internet, 30 then in the room, 30, two then.

At 32, internet then at 32.

Oh, Phil, I feel bad now.

And so you...well should.

£32 and done then.

Yes!

That's a...that's a fairly heady £7, isn't it?

I will take that and run.

VO: All the way to the bank.

Nice to end on a high.

But did I win?

That's the important thing.

(GAVEL) I think you gave me a jolly good thrashing.

Oh, Matron!

VO: Ah!

A hard day at the office for Mr Serrell sees him make a loss of £199.10 after commission.

While Catherine also failed to turn a profit, she only lost £77.66, making her this leg's winner.

And with one auction to go, Catherine claims the crown for this week.

PHIL: Do you know what?

I think that's 3-1 to you in auctions.

Sorry?

3-1... Oh!

(SHOUTS) 3-1!

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