Voiceover (VO): Some of the nation's favorite celebrities... Why have I got such expensive taste?

VO: ..one antiques expert each... Oh!

(LAUGHS) VO: ..and one big challenge - who can seek out and buy the best antiques at the very best prices...

Answers on a postcard.

Oh!

VO: ..and auction for a big profit further down the road?

I love them, I think they are beautiful.

VO: Who will spot the good investments?

Who will listen to advice?

Do you like it?

No, I think it's horrible.

VO: And who will be the first to say "Don't you know who I am?!

Well done, us.

VO: Time to put your pedal to the metal - this is Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!

VO: Yeah!

(ENGINE RUMBLES) VO: Ready to do battle across Britain today in a stylish 1979 Triumph Spitfire, are Eve Pollard and Edwina Currie, two forthright female high flyers who fought in the front line for equality.

VO: Chocks away!

EDWINA: Are you an antiques buff?

Do you know about antiques?

EVE: First of all, I am an antique, so I should.

(LAUGHS) VO: (LAUGHS) Piloting the path ahead, at a steady 20 miles an hour is pioneering politician Edwina Currie.

VO: As famous for the affairs of the heart as the affairs of state, she's sure to give us some major excitement.

OK Edwina, how keen are you to beat me?

Oh, well I want to make as much money as possible and that implies... EVE: So in a word - yes.

EDWINA: I would hope so.

VO: And in the co-pilot seat is the first lady of Fleet Street, Lady Lloyd.

(PHONE RINGING) Sorry, I forgot to turn my phone off.

VO: Or as she's known to the postman - Eve Pollard OBE.

This former newspaper editor is more than used to breaking up male monopolies.

The male world of journalism is still pretty male.

I mean, I think men let a few of us in and then they thought, 'Oh my gosh, they can do this job, we don't want their tanks parked on our lawn.'

VO: And on their way to meet them in a tank - I mean a classic 1960 Morris Minor convertible - are our antiques experts and veteran trippers, the preppy Paul Laidlaw and the dapper David Harper.

VO: Can our no nonsense dynamic dames keep these kings of the road on the straight and narrow?

(GEARS CRUNCH) VO: Ouch!

PAUL: Should we go back for that gearbox?

VO: If you can't find it, grind it.

VO: David Harper is an antiques expert and writer (GLASS RINGS) who bought his first antique at the age of 10, which is about the same time he started fancying the Conservative Junior Health Minister.

DAVID: There was a time - I will admit - many years ago, when I would watch the news and I wouldn't mind wrestling with Edwina Currie.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) What?

DAVID: I've said it!

VO: Oh, crikey!

Let's hope they're not paired together.

VO: His fellow expert auctioneer and Jerry Lewis lookalike, Paul Laidlaw, is more likely to get hot under the collar about hearing our celebs are in a Spitfire, as he is an expert in militaria.

Here we go.

(IMITATES GUNFIRE) VO: He's going to be disappointed when he finds out it's a car, not a plane.

VO: With £400 each to spend, our gender balanced teams will be traveling from Knutsford, up north, meandering through Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire, before going up a gear and romping 200 miles across England to the auction down south in Stansted.

VO: But first time to find out who is partnering who.

(ENGINE ROARS) DAVID: Oh my Lord!

PAUL: (LAUGHS) Roarty.

DAVID: Slow down a bit for goodness sake.

VO: Steady on Edwina, David's pulse won't take it.

DAVID: Hello.

EDWINA: Hi.

EDWINA: Well, you could probably hear us coming a mile away.

DAVID: My, you two do look very glamorous.

Edwina, hello.

David.

EDWINA: Hello.

PAUL: Paul.

EVE: Eve.

Very nice to meet you Paul.

VO: I'm not sure David can be trusted with Edwina, so thankfully he's been paired up with Eve.

PAUL: I think we're together.

EDWINA: Oh, lovely.

OK. Well you are my God, and I will listen to you for at least five minutes.

DAVID: Oh dear Lord.

EVE: (LAUGHS) DAVID: We've got a five-minute walk, which is the time you've got to listen to me.

EVE: OK. DAVID: For five minutes, to our shop.

VO: As David and Eve head off on foot to see what Knutsford has to offer ... DAVID: I was born in the Summer of love.

VO: Edwina and Paul get first dibs on the cars.

Being a military man, Paul chooses the Spitfire.

They're hoping it's not just the car that will be a triumph.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) VO: It's not that funny, Paul.

VO: With £400 burning a hole in their pockets, David and Eve have hit the heart of Knutsford.

Don't they look nice.

DAVID: It's rather nice.

VO: Knutsford was first mentioned in the Domesday book, in 1086, as Canute's Ford, after King Canute, the Danish king of England.

Knutsford was also the model for Cranford, the Elizabeth Gaskell novel dramatized by the BBC, so bagging a bargain might be a bit of a drama here for Eve and David.

DAVID (DD): Hello, how do you do?

EVE: How nice to see you.

DD: David.

Hello David, I am David too, so that makes life much easier for me.

EVE: And how long have you had this?

DD: Oh we've been here since 95, 95.

EVE: Oh gosh, so a long time?

DD: Yes, we've been established for many years.

EVE: Just at my first sight, there are so many things I want to look at.

DAVID: Well I'll let you lead the way.

EVE: OK, I'll have a little look.

VO: The wonderful thing about having an expert on hand is to educate and guide you through potential purchases.

It's positively Chinese.

EVE: The lesson is let's look at the base.

DAVID: OK. Niente.

Yeah, exactly.

Was that Chinese?

That was actually Italian, very bad.

VO: Whoops.

But he is still keen to educate Eve some more.

We have art nouveau, arts and crafts, art deco.

DAVID: This is 1910, somewhere around there, arts and crafts.

EVE: It's very beautiful.

And you went straight into them, because you have got a designer's eye.

EVE: Thank you so much David.

DAVID: You have.

EVE: A fiver will be in the post.

Thank you very much.

Works every time.

VO: Don't let him charm you, Eve, it is Edwina he really fancies.

DAVID: The winning mark for me... EVE: Yes?

...is that on the underside.

EVE: Ah.

DAVID: It says Tudric.

It's a well-known brand of another even more important and interesting and well-known brand.

Which was?

Liberty.

EVE: Oh, right.

It's £88 though.

DAVID: OK. What do you think?

Well if you could get it for 50?

VO: The famous shop Liberty's of London has sold arts and crafts forever.

VO: Its Regent Street store even had a recent exhibition on the movement and its founder, William Morris, so this tea set should be a winner, but first, they have got to hammer out a deal.

Can Eve get it for her target of £50?

Now, this is the first time I have done this so I am going to be really awful and say we wanted to offer you £40 for it.

VO: £40?

Ooh, Eve, that was a low blow.

I'll tell you what I will do, I will give Kim a ring and just, and let's just see what we can sort out for you.

EVE: OK. DD: Just give me a moment.

That did not go down nearly as badly as I was expecting, that is why I wanted you to do it.

DD: Hello Kim?

Hello Kim, this is David here from the antiques shop in Knutsford.

VO: Kim is the owner of the tea set so David is giving her a call to see what price she will sell it for.

DD: Yes.

Right.

Bye bye.

Well, Kim has very obligingly reduce her price to 60, and because you are such a charming couple, I will help you with this and I will go to 50 for you.

There you go.

VO: Bingo!

Eve is happy with her first successful haggle, but David reckons he can get it even lower than that.

But we are going into sale, the ruthless, murderous environment that the saleroom is and we're going against Edwina Currie, and Paul Laidlaw.

Not Edwina and Paul!

DAVID AND EVE: Yes!

VO: Yes, Edwina and Paul.

DAVID: We are not normally as awful as this, but we need to stick to the 40, David.

To give us any sort of chance.

I have to sit down for a moment.

So will I!

VO: So will I.

Take it with the compliments of Knutsford Antiques.

Oh, you are so kind, thank you so much.

VO: Oh, what a kind man.

So with more than 50% off the ticket price, that is a great start and David has spotted something else.

VO: What about these Victorian dumbbells?

DAVID: So, you've got the... EVE: This is mantique.

Thank you.

This is mantique.

VO: Bodybuilding started in the Victorian era and cast iron dumbbells like this would have helped the macho man of the day fill out their swimsuits.

EVE: These apparently were 1884.

1884 dumbbells.

EVE: It says here.

There is a price here.

DAVID: Well it would have to be cheap.

EVE: Ah, they are 58.

DAVID: Ah... VO: David would struggle to lift the skin off a mug of hot cocoa, but can he use his brain rather than his brawn to get a bargain?

DD: 45.

Absolute best.

Eve what do you feel?

I love them to death.

I love them.

I think they are beautiful.

And I think they are special.

And we've never seen anything like it.

Never.

I mean, do we dare take the risk?

Can we trim it a bit?

DD: 40 DAVID: Brilliant.

Good.

DD: Well done.

DAVID: Brilliant.

Fabulous.

EVE: Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

EVE: You're a very very sweet man, I shall be here every day.

VO: That is £40 each for the tea set and the dumbbells.

Ding-dong.

EVE: Well, I have learnt so much already.

DAVID: Have you?

EVE: I have.

Have you been with somebody else?

EVE: (LAUGHS) EVE: Ooh, what a noise, we have liftoff.

DAVID: Points for teamwork.

VO: While team Pollard has successfully changed into a unisex outfit, who is going to be wearing the trousers in team Currie?

Well, at the moment, Edwina is definitely in the driving seat.

VO: As she and Paul drive 30 miles up the road from Knutsford, to Edwina's birthplace, Liverpool.

EDWINA: Tell you what, it looks a lot prettier than when I was a child.

All the trees have grown and people are looking after the houses, it's lovely.

VO: One of Britain's great Victorian cities, Liverpool owed its wealth to transatlantic trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

VO: Products like cotton and tobacco all helped local businessmen become millionaires, but in the 1960s, Liverpool had an export of its own, that created four millionaires - Beatlemania.

VO: As another famous Scouse export, Edwina remembers the 60s, which means she probably wasn't really there.

EDWINA: I went, I won a scholarship to Oxford.

And the day I won my scholarship I went and sat in the bathroom and cried, "Oh, I've got my ticket to ride."

PAUL: (LAUGHS) EDWINA: "Ride anywhere in the world".

EDWINA: The Beatles had become.. PAUL: Yeah, of course.

..really famous.

And we wanted to do the same as them.

EDWINA: We wanted to travel the world, proud of our city, proud of being Scousers.

EDWINA: I have always been proud of being a Scouser.

It is going to be interesting, going into an antique shop in Liverpool, because I have never done that before.

VO: Well there is a first time for everything, Edwina and with £400 to spend, your first time is going to be in Wayne Colquhoun's Antiques and Fine Arts.

VO: Owned by none other than Wayne Colquhoun.

VO: He spent ages thinking up that shop name.

WAYNE: Hello Edwina, I'm Wayne.

EDWINA: Hello Wayne.

PAUL: Wayne.

Good to see you, I'm Paul.

VO: Wayne, yeah, just in case you missed it, his name is Wayne.

VO: It's not long before an item catches Paul's well-trained eye.

PAUL: A little chatelaine notepad.

EDWINA: Yep.

PAUL: Waistband or belt hook, the pad itself, PAUL: ..closed ingeniously... EDWINA: With the pencil.

PAUL: ..by means of the pencil itself.

PAUL: It springs open.

EDWINA: Oh, it's sweet.

PAUL: It's not in a precious medium.

I think that is an anodized finish on base metal, maybe silver-plated, but what draws me to it - aside from novelty - is the Jugendstil, the youth style, aesthetic.

EDWINA: Mmhm.

Which is, for my money, rather smart.

Just highlighted with this pink and white enameling.

EDWINA: And it is all complete.

It looks it to me.

I rather like that.

VO: Secessionist and Jugendstil were the Austro Hungarian and German versions of art nouveau.

VO: It was all the rage from the 1890s, when enameled metal items with floral details like these were produced, but this one would be worth more than its 65 price tag if it was made of silver.

WAYNE: I think I'd be... Well, I've... PAUL: Be gentle on us Wayne.

...got a little bit more in the shop on it, but I think £55 would be nice price, which would give you a chance to sell it at auction, I would think.

It's possible that someone could actually just like that, you know.

PAUL: Are you worried about the fact that it is not silver?

In Essex?

Hmm, not sure.

VO: Edwina is worried that tastes at the Essex auction might be more bling than those in Liverpool but then she spots something familiar.

EDWINA: Those stays down there?

That is a corset.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) EDWINA: For goodness sake man, what are you doing?

Where did you find this?

I threw it away years ago.

VO: Probably the same place you left these garters, Edwina.

These are actually quite interesting, because... That's garters.

These are the old-fashioned garters that the flapper girls would have worn.

PAUL: Oh my word.

WAYNE: Look at the decoration on them.

I think they've lost their elastic.

EDWINA: How old are these?

WAYNE: I think they are 20s and 30s.

WAYNE: They sort of go in an era where something like a cigarette holder would be, you know... PAUL: For my money, that's a pretty seductive little combination.

That is painting a picture that I shall treasure.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) VO: Moving swiftly on, the roaring twenties style from the Great Gatsby might be worth a punt at the moment, thanks to the recent movie.

WAYNE: I could see the cigarette holder making 65 on its own.

Ohh, not in any auction room I've been in.

WAYNE: I think in the spirit of a charity event I think I would be prepared to sell them for £35.

My eyebrows spoke volumes there.

EDWINA: Happy?

VO: That is a lot for a lot, and for just £35.

Edwina is still finding her feet in the world of antiques, so she has left Paul to do the first deal, but what about the notebook?

PAUL: Where are you at?

WAYNE: I think we said 55 did we?

I think they said 45, and I'm thinking we could get another bit off.

PAUL: I think we need even more than that off it.

VO: Oh Edwina is showing a bit of interest now but it is left to Paul to close the deal.

We are going to be on the way out the door, and another £35 and we shake hands and we...

There you go, that's enough for dinner tonight.

WAYNE: I'm gonna do that.

EDWINA: Yes!

Do that.

PAUL: Cracked it.

Wayne, pleasure.

VO: It seems our grand dame at the dispatch box might be happier at the backbenches when it comes to antiques.

EDWINA: Sir.

VO: With both lots secured for £70, our pair are more than happy to see what other sites Liverpool can offer.

VO: Back in Cheshire, David is finding out more about his trading and traveling partner, the national institution that is Eve Pollard.

DAVID: What drew you to journalism in the beginning?

Women's pages were changing, and women's pages were educating women and then I was sort of, once I was in, I was keen to get to the top, because I thought that is where the power lies.

The thing is, I do think women at that time, and maybe still, have to work harder than men.

But is it easier now for a woman to do what you did?

I do think so.

I mean, I think the interesting thing is there are very few dull, gray women who just hang onto their jobs and quite a few dull gray men.

VO: Eve didn't let those dull gray men get the better of her, so all I can say is good luck Edwina.

EVE: Do I want to beat Edwina?

DAVID: Yes, that is the question.

EVE: Oh, definitely.

DAVID: Do you?

EVE: Fond as I am of our competitor, DAVID: Yep.

EVE: I want to beat her fair and square.

OK, well I feel the same about Paul.

He's a right pal of mine, love him to bits but I want to thrash him.

Is that me being too competitive?

No.

VO: So, with the picturesque thought of thrashing Paul in mind... VO: Team Pollard are heading eight miles up the road to Hale.

Hale was formerly a farming village until the arrival of the railways in the mid-19th century and now it is a haven for wealthy Mancunian commuters.

VO: Eve and David are heading to Porcupine Antiques, owned by Val Martin.

I have heard she can be a bit prickly.

Hah.

EVE: Hello, nice to see you.

VAL: I'm Val.

EVE: Nice to see you.

VAL: You're?

EVE: Eve.

VO: Val doesn't seem to quite know who the celebrity is.

I have seen you somewhere I think, yes.

DAVID: Have you really?

VAL: On TV I think.

Yes, probably.

VO: Val's a fan of Crimewatch then.

Right, got it.

It could have been Crimewatch, I don't know.

VAL: Hah.

DAVID: Yeah.

VO: We've done that gag, David.

There is a lot of rococo going on in Val's place.

VO: The glass drop chandeliers, painted furniture, and the ornate mirrors, are all inspired by the 18th century style, but some of these items are much more modern.

Now Eve, what do you think about that wall light there?

EVE: I like that.

Yeah, because that has got a little bit of age.

That's very nice isn't it?

Yeah.

Val, do you mind if I have a look at that?

VAL: Lift it off.

That looks very sort of 50s, doesn't it?

It's got... Yeah.

Am I wrong?

No, I think you're right.

I think...

I was hoping it was going to be earlier, like 20s, but it isn't.

You are absolutely right.

EVE: It's very sexy.

DAVID: Ah, thank you.

VO: She means the lights, not you David.

Can you imagine that lit, in the right...

I'd rather it turned off at my age.

DAVID: (LAUGHS) DAVID: It's glamour.

EVE: It feels naughty.

DAVID: It does.

Naughty, but nice.

VO: The pair of lights are naughty, but nice.

Have you got two of these?

VO: But what about Val?

VAL: 100 quid.

DAVID: Oof.

VO: That's nice, Val.

For the two.

VO: But will David be naughty?

I'm going to hand that back to you then.

Right.

But tell me what the absolute death is.

The absolute death, for you, and I would not do this for anybody else, is 50 quid.

So, they are very 19th-century in their style, never seen the 19th-century in their lives.

EVE: Yeah?

They look like they are bronze ormolu, they have never seen bronze ormolu.

They are tinny, but they've...

Sorry, are you...

I'm not...

But they've got, they've got... No, I agree with you, but they are extremely nice.

But they have a glamorous look.

Glamour look, and there is two of them.

EVE: Only you... DAVID: Yeah?

..know, will they do alright at auction?

£25 each.

It must...

He's got a gift.

VO: Why are we whispering?

Can we go 35?

I started off at 100.

DAVID: I know, but... That is... No, you are taking absolute liberties.

DAVID: Don't swear.

(LAUGHS) I didn't.

You are very jammy.

EVE: He does take liberties, and he does do it very well.

Very close there.

No, do you...

Listen, that is 25 each, that is a snip.

DAVID: They are, they are not expensive.

No, they're not.

VO: It looks like stalemate, until David produces his trump card.

Do you want us to beat Edwina Currie?

(SIGHS) 42.50.

DAVID AND EVE: (LAUGH) VO: Ooh, it is getting underhand now.

I bet they won't tell Edwina about that later.

VO: With their shopping for the day complete, Edwina is taking Paul to discover the secrets of Liverpool's caverns.

No, not where the Beatles first played, but the sight of one of her native city's biggest mysteries - and one, despite her growing up nearby, Edwina knows nothing about - the Williamson Tunnels.

VO: Taking them underground is Les Coe of the Friends of Williamson Tunnels project.

EDWINA: Hiya.

LES: My name is Les.

EDWINA: Hello, Les.

LES: Welcome to Williamson's Tunnels.

VO: Joseph Williamson was a wealthy local tobacco merchant who meticulously built miles of tunnels under Liverpool's suburbs between 1800 and 1840, but no one knows quite why, so our intrepid duo are about to find out for themselves what lies below.

EDWINA: Goodbye cruel world.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) PAUL: Why, holy Moses.

VO: The most likely theory for building the tunnels is that it was to provide work for unemployed soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

VO: There are more fanciful theories about the tunnels, like they were used to hide contraband, or that Williamson was preparing a shelter for the end of the world, but there isn't enough evidence to support any of these stories.

EDWINA: It's like being inside somewhere in ancient Egypt, isn't it?

PAUL: (LAUGHS) Yes.

EDWINA: Do you know what, I have this, this nightmare that there is going to be a grinding noise... PAUL: (LAUGHS) EDWINA: ...and these walls are going to come closer and I'm going to have to run and I'm going to have to do an Indiana Jones.

Oh my word.

VO: The tunnels vary in size and shape, from 4 feet by 6 feet, to 25 feet high and 20 feet wide, but no one really knows either how many tunnels there are or where they go.

PAUL: What do you make of the mentality of the man that will take on what must have been some size of workforce and produce this, that we don't understand?

It's absolutely astonishing.

You cannot help but admire Mr Williamson.

We should pay him tribute, to take on people who were in desperate need long before there were systems to look after them, and put them to work here in this astonishing enterprise.

VO: After Williamson's death in 1840, the tunnels became neglected and were either filled in for safety reasons or were used as a dumping ground by the residents of the rapidly expanding city, but 150 years later, amateur enthusiasts began to excavate, and found a time capsule of discarded objects and the mysterious tunnels began to reveal some secrets about the city's past.

PAUL: I am dying to see some of the material that you have uncovered.

OK, we can arrange that.

EDWINA: Lead on, MacDuff.

LES: Thank you.

VO: Edwina and Paul are off to another tunnel to meet Steven Moran, who is going to show them just some of the hidden treasure and talk codswallop, literally.

PAUL: Sir Hiram Codd's patent, from whence we get the term codswallop.

That's right, that's actually where the phrase cods... yeah.

VO: Hiram Codd was a soda salesman who came up with the unique replacement for corks for the newly fashionable soft drinks industry in the 19th century.

STEVEN: The olive falls onto the rubber ring, gas pressure kept it in ready for distribution, straight off the machine, you just press it down to em... PAUL: You would get a special little cap with it.

STEVEN: We use a little plunger, yep.

Yeah that's right and give it a whack and that opens up - codds wallop.

STEVEN: Yeah.

VO: Hm, that's another story that's hard to prove, but there are some other unusual finds down here.

EDWINA: It's a toy toilet.

STEVEN: Toilet, yeah.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) That's fantastic.

STEVEN: Everything from corkscrews, to lighting fittings, shovels.

PAUL: I love that iron work there, look at the quality of that casting.

STEVEN: This is...

When we actually clean this up, we are going to actually black lead it... ..because it is such intricate work.

PAUL: Isn't it?

STEVEN: It's...

It's, you know, it's top form of intricate work.

STEVEN: All the finds we've got we want to put them on display.

It is our social history of Liverpool.

It really is.

EDWINA: I was born and grew up in the city, not a million miles from where we're standing now, and I never knew any of this was here.

It's absolutely fabulous.

VO: Although Joseph Williamson's intentions might always remain secret, his tunnels have provided some intriguing answers to questions about how his fellow Liverpudlians have lived for the past 170 years.

It's a shame Team Currie can't buy any of the items down there, they might have fetched a few quid.

VO: Well that was the end of the long first day of antique road tripping, time for our teams to retire for the night.

VO: That's all folks.

Well, not really.

VO: It's another day and another dollar to be haggled over by our antique hunting celebrities.

What did you buy?

Well I don't think I can tell you what, but I can tell you that we bought three things.

VO: So far, Eve and David have splashed out £122.50 on three items - the tea set, the Victorian dumbbells, and the rococo style gilt wall lamps.

DAVID: Do you want us to beat Edwina Currie?

(SIGHS) 42.50.

DAVID AND EVE: (LAUGH) VO: Hah.

That leaves a healthy £277.50 for the day ahead.

VO: Edwina and Paul meanwhile, handed over £70 for two lovely lots - the Gatsby lot of cigarette holder, garters and a stay... That's a pretty seductive little combination.

VO: ..and the art nouveau chatelaine notebook holder.

Outta here!

VO: That leaves them with a stash of £330 to spend today.

VO: But what did our experts think of their celebrity charges yesterday?

After spending a day with Eve Pollard... PAUL: Yes.

I can tell you that she is pretty much the model of the perfect woman.

Get off the fence, Harper.

What?

You are wading in kind of heavy there.

DAVID: She is highly intelligent, but doesn't make you feel stupid, which was a bit of a worry, seriously.

DAVID: She's interested, she is interesting, she does interesting things.

She is the perfect woman.

VO: Wow!

David has switched his romantic allegiances from Edwina to Eve, but is this reciprocal?

I think David is a genius and I'm...

I'm thinking of fitting out a room at home he can come and live in.

VO: My word, this relationship has moved quickly.

I live near Church Street Antiques, Portobello.

I mean I could imagine taking him down there would be fabulous.

VO: Oh, I see.

Eve is more interested in shopping than settling down.

VO: But what about Paul and Edwina?

Well, Edwina and I... You are getting married?

DAVID: (LAUGHS) PAUL: Moving in.

Now, trump that - don't!

Mind you, who cares.

We're both beautiful and worth a lot of money.

DAVID: Get ready to jump.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) You loved that.

DAVID: That was scary.

VO: Stop flirting.

It's time to swap partners and hit the road as both teams are heading to the same shop.

VO: The race is on.

EVE: Wahey!

VO: So, after spending yesterday in Knutsford, Liverpool, and Hale, VO: our two teams set off from the lovely greater Manchester town of Cheadle for the also lovely town of Sale, just seven miles up the road.

VO: How appropriate that our bargain buyers are heading for town called Sale, however the town takes its name from old English, meaning "at the sallow tree".

It can trace its origins back to the seventh century AD and has survived the Jacobite uprising, the Manchester Blitz, and post-war planning.

VO: But how will it cope with the arrival of team Pollard and team Currie?

First to try and get a sale in Sale are Edwina and Paul, who are meeting Wayne Long, of Manchester Antiques.

Wow!

PAUL: Wow indeed.

EDWINA: Fantastic stuff here, look.

WAYNE: Hi, nice to meet you.

I'm Edwina, and you are?

WAYNE: Wayne.

EDWINA: Hello, Wayne.

PAUL: Good to see you, Wayne.

I'm Paul.

You alright?

PAUL: Heavy on furniture though, what are you like for smalls?

VO: Smalls?

Is Paul trying to buy underwear?

Again?

EDWINA: Shall we start at the top and work our way down?

PAUL: That works for me, Edwina.

It's as good a plan as any.

There is an old man with a goose.

That's rather sweet.

VO: It is a goose, and yours will be cooked soon unless you find something to put your hands on.

PAUL: I think it is a fine thing.

I see that, it sits very well on that marquetry side cabinet.

PAUL: It would sit well on a desk, it would sit well on the telephone table in the hall.

PAUL: Does it do anything for you?

Would I have it in my house?

Probably not.

VO: Something is not quite right about that clock.

If only I could put my finger on it.

EDWINA: It hasn't got any... PAUL: It's not got any hands.

EDWINA: ..hands on it.

VO: A clock without hands, what's next?

A chocolate teapot?

An ashtray for a motorbike?

PAUL: If that wasn't expensive, I think... EDWINA: That might be worth having.

PAUL: ..that has still got legs.

VO: It might have legs, Paul, but it ain't got no hands.

DAVID: Oh no, they're here.

EVE: They're here!

They're getting the best deal.

VO: Outside, the enemy has landed.

DAVID: David Harper.

WAYNE: Wayne.

EVE: Eve Pollard.

Hello.

Nice to see you, Wayne.

VO: Wasting no time, Eve and David spot a little bit of what they fancy.

EVE: That's rather pretty, isn't it?

DAVID: Yes, that is quite a pretty thing, what do you think of that?

EVE: Lovely little boite.

DAVID: Yeah.

EVE: And what was this for?

Tea?

This, I think is more of a games box.

EVE: Ah, yes of course.

DAVID: Yeah, I would say looking at the decoration I think that is late 19th, early 20th-century, so let's say 1890.

EVE: But look, it is rather beautiful.

DAVID: Do you like it?

EVE: I do think it's a beautiful object.

Look at the little tigery things in the corner.

EVE: Look, excellent detail.

DAVID: You know what they are?

EVE: What?

DAVID: That's a dragon.

EVE: It's a dragon?

DAVID: It's a good creature.

EVE: Good thing, well that's what you always see at Chinese New Year.

I handle and buy objects like this.

50 a month, probably, I will handle Chinese boxes.

What do you think of it?

I think it is absolutely gorgeous.

Oh do you?

I'm so glad that you like too.

VO: It looks like Eve's eye for an item has got it right again.

DAVID: Is it cheapy-cheapy?

The price is 375, but can be 290.

VO: Ouch!

A million miles away.

EVE: A million miles away.

How many is a million miles?

We're at the hundreds of pounds away, sadly.

Nothing to do with the box, it is to do with going into a saleroom.

VO: Now what is Edwina up to?

Is she hoping to pick up some tips?

DAVID: This is the bottom end, this is the beginning of the Chinese market, but it is a proper antique and for 60 quid it would be estimated at 80-120.

It could make a bit of money.

but Wayne is...

I'll let you just look into Eve's eyes a little longer, Wayne, and consider that.

OK. VO: Wayne stands no chance against the eyes of Eve.

How about £67.50?

Nice complicated number like that.

Is that with the wink, or...?

EVE: That's with a wink.

WAYNE: OK. VO: And with a saucy wink, the deal is done.

Cheeky!

Where do you get those eyelashes from?

VO: Now that, Edwina is how you make a deal.

It is the heart behind the eyes.

I'm going to take you out with me more often, when I'm going buying for me.

VO: That is a terrible excuse for taking someone out, David, you romantic fool.

VO: Upstairs, Edwina and Paul are putting the world to rights.

EDWINA: I like that.

PAUL: Oh, good reaction.

EDWINA: I like that.

PAUL: Good reaction.

EDWINA: We had one, we had a big one at home.

PAUL: The two hemispheres are coming adrift.

EDWINA: Yes.

PAUL: But, watch this.

EDWINA: Push it together.

PAUL: Not bad.

And that may be a lead in with regard to negotiating a price.

PAUL: Right, well... VO: But before they decide on the globe, Edwina is talking a load of old balsa.

EDWINA: It is quite nice actually, with the palm trees.

It has still got all its pinnacles.

They're not even, they are only very slightly wonky.

Somebody has looked after that.

PAUL: Yeah.

That is an original top.

PAUL: It fits a treat.

PAUL: And when that goes, you're doomed, you'll never get another.

EDWINA: What do you reckon?

Let's say 1880s?

PAUL: I am entirely comfortable with that.

PAUL: Could be as early as 1850, but let's say comfortably third quarter of the 19th century.

EDWINA: But would anybody want to buy it, that's the thing?

If he said £80, I would be saying we've got a purchase on our hands.

VO: Back down below, Eve and David are still looking for an elusive final item.

EVE: The harp?

Yes.

Now then.

EVE: Isn't it beautiful?

DAVID: It is.

I think utterly delicious.

But...?

DAVID: It's ruined.

See the maker.

EVE: Yep, and I love all this... DAVID: It's 1860.

EVE: It is a lesson to say to people if you've got stuff in old, wet, damp sheds, take them out... DAVID: Please, please do.

...clean them up, and sell them.

DAVID: Because this thing when it was new, can you see that gold paint there, that gilding?

EVE: Oh, yes.

It was absolutely vibrant.

This is gesso, on top of wood.

DAVID: It would have been a fortune this, when it was new and if it was completely mint it would be worth a couple of thousand quid.

EVE: Yeah.

But to restore, it's going to take a couple of thousand quid.

EVE: Yes.

DAVID: And more.

But I have seen these in that state...

Yes?

...sell for a few hundred pounds.

Yes.

For what reason, I've absolutely no idea at all.

VO: The 19th-century Schweiso harp is plucking at their heartstrings, but what does Wayne want for it?

WAYNE: They're £325.

People will just want it for parts.

DAVID: Yeah.

WAYNE: Feet, or... DAVID: Yeah, yeah.

OK. EVE: OK. Nice try.

DAVID: I know.

I know.

EVE: I love him.

DAVID: I might put you on the job though.

DAVID: Oh, hello.

VO: Oh, it is just as if you were both filming a program about antiques.

EVE: Are you ever going to come down, so we can go up?

EDWINA: In a minute.

In a minute.

You've been up there for hours.

What have you been doing upstairs?

We have been spreading our germs up there, so you can't go up there just yet.

What germs would they be Edwina?

VO: Don't answer that.

VO: Team Pollard must wait their turn while Edwina and Paul try to do a deal.

WAYNE: It's £140.

PAUL: Hm.

VO: Ooh.

That earns Wayne the silent treatment.

Can they do any better on the clock?

PAUL: There's a clock, the movement might be skew-whiff, but decorative.

Decorative and not expensive.

No, it shouldn't be.

I don't think it's expensive at all.

It is £35.

PAUL: (SIGHS) PAUL: The globe, the Philips globe.

WAYNE: Yeah, there is damage on that.

PAUL: Yeah.

Without the damage it would have been an awful lot more.

PAUL: Yeah.

WAYNE: Again that is £140.

EDWINA: Mmm.

PAUL: Is it...

I think there is work needs to be done on your prices by a bit, but I am no cheeky, I am not talking double-digits, but I am talking right on the cusp.

VO: Paul is trying to do a deal on the globe but Team Currie still can't decide if the temple is a better buy, but Wayne is about to make them both a lot more attractive.

WAYNE: You can have either of the two things for £100.

PAUL: Right.

WAYNE: And now you have to make the decision.

VO: Great move, Wayne.

Back at you, Team Currie.

Is it going to be the globe or the temple for £100?

EDWINA: And the little decorative clock you said 35?

WAYNE: £30.

That's...

So, that would be 130 would give us two items.

VO: That Edwina has been quietly learning though, and comes back with a classic move.

By including the earlier clock, can she get the price down?

EDWINA: 120.

EDWINA: Well, it's £120 in your pocket, which is good, isn't it?

WAYNE: OK. We're done.

VO: Gotcha.

Edwina's sealed her first deal - £120 for the clock and either the globe or the temple.

VO: But who is doing the choosing?

I think the lady should pick.

Thanks Wayne, loving your work there.

Took some pressure off.

Let's go for the flamboyant, we'll go for the Indian item.

WAYNE: That's what I would've gone for.

VO: I bet you say that to all your buyers, Wayne.

But that is a neat bit of business for Paul and Edwina, and they can now high tail it out of there.

PAUL: Absolutely clear.

EDWINA: I've got perfect behind.

PAUL: Wide open.

(LAUGHS) EDWINA: Whoops.

Right which way am I going when I come out of here, laddies?

VO: Well, perhaps not.

VO: With Team Currie out of the way, Team Pollard are going back to the Schweiso harp.

Can they pull a few strings, and get a bargain?

DAVID: If the harp can come for 50 quid.

It is a bizarre risky thing.

EVE: I mean, I am putting my life in your hands.

DAVID: I know and I'm going to have to apologize now... EVE: You know, the sobbing, if Edwina wins, will be heard EVE: across the nation.

From me.

DAVID: Don't, don't.

Don't.

That is why we need... do you really want us to be beaten by a politician?

VO: Oh, they are going for the anti-Currie vote again.

Most undemocratic.

Look at Wayne.

Wayne... You've got the money.

He's got the money, he's always got the money.

DAVID: Can the harp be - look into Eve's eyes and I am going to ask you a question.

EVE: (LAUGHS) VO: Eve is going for the magic stare.

Will the eyes have it?

Look in there, will you take... Will you take £50 for the harp?

DAVID: How's that?

A lot of people would pay not to have... DAVID: (LAUGHS) DAVID: Are we done?

Yes!

VO: The eyes to the right have won the vote.

Motion carried and the harp sold for £50.

EVE: And then we will see whether we were right, or mad.

Oh, I think we could be mad, but...

I am saying nothing.

I'll sit on the fence.

VO: Wayne must be a liberal then.

VO: From Sale, Eve and David travel six miles back up the road, to the other Victorian metropolis of northwest England, Manchester.

A city famous for its tradition of political reform and, in the early 20th century, the birthplace of the suffragette movement.

VO: A bit of a trailblazer herself, EVE: Oops VO: Eve has brought David to the People's History Museum to find out more about the ups and downs of the women who inspired her.

EVE: (LAUGHS) VO: And how they used marketing and merchandizing to get their message heard.

On hand to show them round, is museum registrar, Phil Dunn.

Phil, David Harper.

Pleased to meet you, David.

VO: At the start of the 20th century, women could not own property unless they were married, had little access to education and few rights in the workplace, but most importantly they did not have the universal right to vote.

VO: The movement dubbed, 'The Suffragettes' believed in direct action to get women the vote.

The founder of the campaign was Manchester lass Emmeline Pankhurst.

DAVID: As a layman, when was it founded, the suffragette movement?

The suffragette movement was founded in Manchester in 1903.

DAVID: 03, OK. PHIL: By the household of Mrs Pankhurst and her husband, Richard Pankhurst, in Nelson Street, in south Manchester.

So the husband was involved as well?

Oh yes, he was sympathetic.

DAVID: Ah, you see, it is good to know that men are involved here.

DAVID: I want some credit.

EVE: Ish!

It's very good.

VO: It wasn't you personally, David.

But shortly after forming, the media savvy suffragettes soon picked up on the very modern technique of merchandizing their message.

PHIL: This is the Pank-a-Squith game, again showing the commercial nous of the suffragettes.

It was produced in 1909.

It is obviously pro-suffragette.

The term is obviously a hybrid term, combining the surname of Emmeline Pankhurst and Asquith, when was the Liberal leader... EVE: Yeah.

DAVID: Prime minister.

PHIL: The Liberal prime minister.

EVE: Yeah.

Who personally opposed women's suffrage, but he kind of washed his hands of it and said, "I will leave the decision to the House of Commons".

PHIL: They had an advantage in that fact that Sylvia Pankhurst was a very gifted artist.

DAVID: OK. PHIL: So these progressive designs on this women's social and political union saucer and cup... EVE: Yeah.

PHIL: ..are designs by Sylvia Pankhurst.

She was influenced in her art and politics, by the socialist Walter Crane, himself a disciple of William Morris.

VO: William Morris was a friend of the Pankhurst's and also the father of the arts and crafts movement, which produced wonderful items like the Tudric tea set Eve and David bought yesterday.

It is odd you know, because in all my time handling objects, I can honestly say I have never come across anything ever related to the suffragette movement.

EVE: Really?

None of these cups, plates, or games.

But there are very, very famous posters.

VO: It is no surprise that as a pioneer of women's issues in the media, Eve loves the propaganda posters, like this one from 1908, designed by Emily Ford.

EVE: Oh this is the one I remember.

PHIL: Favorite of yours?

EVE: It's an amazing poster.

EVE: There's a girl looking at the factory door, and it says: "Factory Acts - regulations for women"; and underneath the caption says: "They have a cheek, I have never been asked".

EVE: One of the things I have to say how slowly all this moves.

About 40 years ago I gave birth to Claudia Winkleman, and in my contract, nothing about maternity leave.

Nothing at all.

That is how much we have come on.

PHIL: Well that poster is underscoring the fact that, then certainly, working-class women were largely ignored.

EVE: Totally.

VO: Like Eve, the suffragettes knew the value of a good headline and would often choose prison over fines to ensure publicity for the cause.

PHIL: This was a certificate of recognition or gratitude towards one of the many suffragettes who ended up in prison.

PHIL: These certificates would be given in recognition of the sacrifices they've made for the cause.

So, these are badges of honor, then, aren't they?

PHIL: Correct.

VO: Women finally got the equal vote in 1928, the same year the former radical Emmeline Pankhurst died, but not before she had become a Tory.

VO: A female Tory - I wonder how Edwina is getting on?

VO: Well, she and Paul have traveled five miles, through sunny Sale and Hulme to the outskirts of Manchester, and Edwina is getting really fired up.

Am I right to feel quite...

Pleased with us?

PAUL: (LAUGHS) I think that was a good shop, you know.

If you are feeling pleased with that shop that would make two of us.

PAUL: If I were a gambling man, I would take a punt on us turning a little profit.

You know what, it would really be great to win this.

VO: Fighting talk, but they are running out of time, so perhaps the shop in situ might help them end their journey in style.

PAUL: Classy joint.

I like it.

VO: Edwina is getting warmed up in the fireplace aisle.

PAUL: We can't afford this.

EDWINA: Well, em, maybe we can.

VO: Has Edwina got a secret stash up a chimney somewhere?

PAUL: Oh, that's a belter, isn't it?

EDWINA: How much would something like that go for?

Well, about two or 300.

VO: Their chances of getting a bargain are rapidly going down the pan.

VO: Paul thinks he might have found a bargain at £60 and Laura Gaither is on hand to tell him more.

PAUL: Laura, how're you doing?

LAURA: I'm alright.

I don't know what to tell you, they are first for me, these Nagel candle holders, but they are amazing.

They are pretty interesting, aren't they?

VO: These late 60s design gems are German candelabrum, and they were designed by Fritz Nagel of the Bayerische Metallfabrik, or BMF company.

VO: It's all Vorsprung durch Technik to me, don't you know.

It seems like enough money, in all honesty, for, for what I have got in front of me.

PAUL: Have you got much margin to play with?

LAURA: What are you thinking?

I am just going to kick off with a £30 offer.

EDWINA: With a what?

£30.00 That is probably going to be a little too low.

LAURA: The best I could probably do is 60.

Edwina, help me here.

EDWINA: 45 LAURA: 45 Straight in with a killer... EDWINA: Cash in hand, now.

PAUL: I think that would be it.

LAURA: Em... EDWINA: Say yes, go on.

LAURA: Yeah, OK.

I want to get to my garden.

VO: Edwina is getting the hang of this now.

Straight in there to get the price down.

But Paul has spotted something else.

Did something else catch your eye in there?

Yeah, I saw your other set.

LAURA: I know, there's another set.

EDWINA: Did you spot those in the window?

PHIL: Just as you sealed the deal, for my money, they are dead to me now.

EDWINA: OK. PAUL: I prefer those.

LAURA: I think that that's fine.

Wunderbar!

LAURA: Yeah, that's right.

OK.

Thanks very much, Laura.

Magic.

It is Laura, isn't it?

VO: It is always important to know the names of the people who are taking your money, Paul.

PAUL: Compadre?

EDWINA: Yes.

VO: Compadre?

Paul's language skills know no beginnings.

VO: Well, with £45 paid for the £60 candle holders, it's adios and aufweidersehen to Hulme.

EDWINA: I am slightly disappointed that we didn't spend all our money.

I feel that we kind of didn't fulfill our full potential.

PAUL: Indeed.

But you can't buy it if it is not there.

VO: Yes, Paul.

But if an antique falls in a forest and there is no one there, does it make any noise?

VO: And are you about to hear the sound of one hand clapping when you show Team Pollard your purchases?

PAUL: Edwina, shall we put them out of their misery?

EDWINA: Eh...

I think we should do that.

Right, we tried very hard to be a team, we did.

Oh, look.

Oh.

EVE: They've bought that.

DAVID: We saw that... EVE: This is a bit like your house is it, Paul?

PAUL: (LAUGHS) VO: No, Paul's house is a bit bigger than that.

DAVID: Well it is very spottable in Carlisle, I'll give you that.

EVE: (LAUGHS) EDWINA: Do you like granny's knickers?

VO: Who doesn't?

Did I say that out loud?

EVE: As I was saying, I wore those in 1942 and General Eisenhower liked them then.

EDWINA: Do you remember how horrible those garments were?

EVE: No, I don't, actually, but if you are telling me that you used to wear them, I believe you.

EDWINA: Well, just about.

EVE: Well that is rather pretty, art deco stuff, isn't it?

It's art nouveau, that one.

Art nouveau I mean.

DAVID: Which is very nice, I must say.

EVE: I do think that's very pretty.

DAVID: Is it hallmarked?

It's not.

Ooh, thank the Lord for that.

We didn't go to an art deco shop, did we?

EVE: I like the bit of pink in it, it's very pretty.

PAUL: It is, isn't it?

DAVID: £40?

VO: It was a tasty bargain.

PAUL: Bit high.

EVE: 30?

PAUL: Yes.

DAVID: £30.

It's... PAUL: It's alright, isn't it?

It's alright, I mean that is 30 to 50, 40 to 60...

Mind you, you've got to have a very small shopping list.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) DAVID: Dare we reveal?

EVE: I'm afraid we'll have to.

Teamwork.

DAVID: Teamwork, yeah.

EVE: Teamwork.

VO: That's it, get your excuses in, David.

DAVID: The first bit of the reveal.

Do you want the second bit or do you want to absorb that first?

EDWINA: Shall we have the whole lot?

PAUL: What on earth could the second bit be, what on earth could that be underneath there?

Is it a wardrobe?

DAVID: No, it is a mint condition harp.

VO: Mint - as in it's got a hole in the middle.

EDWINA: What in heaven's name did you pay for that?

DAVID: Come on now, give it a twang.

EVE: Paul, angels played this.

PAUL: Look at it!

And did someone shotgun it?

EDWINA: Do you know what... PAUL: (LAUGHS) VO: Someone get Paul an inhaler, quick.

His asthma is playing up.

...they'll bring this in.

DAVID: Take no notice of these two, they haven't got a clue.

They can't see a good quality item in good condition.

VO: They're just jealous, David.

EVE: Let's not go into that any further.

EVE: Would you like to have a look?

DAVID: What do you want to talk about?

EDWINA: What's this?

PAUL: I saw this.

EVE: It's beautiful.

I saw this.

DAVID: It's gorgeous.

PAUL: This I adore.

EVE: Look at the serpentine front, then you open it... PAUL: Delivers.

Was that a cracking noise there?

EVE: That was a cracking noise, but that was just my knee.

EVE: That's for your, probably your cards, or your whatever... DAVID: £67.50.

Wonderful.

EVE: It is pretty, isn't it?

Wonderful.

Appealing to the hottest market in the world, arguably.

Um, it's a great thing.

VO: How did they manage to knock nearly £200 off the price?

It's time to reveal the eyes of Eve technique.

DAVID: I am just going to try it on Paul.

Paul.

Yeah, David, how can I help?

I can't go a bit less than... You can just have it.

PAUL: Oh, what am I doing, I can't believe it.

DAVID: It works, it works.

PAUL: I can't believe it.

But you weren't offering money, then.

Doesn't matter.

You were offering something else.

DAVID: Anything I want.

If I want his jacket, I just go like this... EVE: That's it.

DAVID: It's amazing.

And that face will haunt me in my dreams.

Right, I'll take a picture of it and email it to you.

EDWINA: Well, let battle commence.

DAVID: Lovely.

Edwina, thank you very much.

PAUL: Well done, good job.

EVE: It has been great fun, hasn't it?

PAUL: My man's in another good auction!

VO: With the niceties over, let's find out what they really think.

EVE: I did like the Maharaja's sort of palace, I mean, I know that you are going to say it's in balsa wood, but it is very interior decor attractive.

DAVID: That is their best item.

DAVID: That is their best hope for a profit, it could make a couple of hundred quid.

Those wall lights, they can be tricky.

You have got to hack through your plaster to wire them, you've got to get an electrician in.

Arguably they are pretty naff.

EDWINA: Yeah.

Do you think their reaction on the harp was real?

Yes I'm afraid I do think... EVE: And listen, Paul, he's not entirely sure that it's wrong he's just hoping, isn't he?

Course he is.

I would like the box, but I don't know that I would rush to part with any of our purchases.

EDWINA: (LAUGHS) Not even the girdle?

PAUL: Not even.

That's a sexy lot.

Would you swap all of their purchases, for all of our purchases?

Ooh, definitely not!

Good.

VO: With business all done for the day, up north, it's time to travel a whopping 200 miles to Stansted in Essex.

PAUL: We have bought some good things, nothing to worry about.

PAUL: I suspect however, in the other car, I reckon there may be just a wee bit more competition between the two ladies?

Oh yeah, yeah.

I think so.

EDWINA: I have a feeling that our castle, our Indian temple... EVE: Yes?

..wood thing, is going to compete hard with your harp.

Whoever wins this today will be put on a pedestal, he's going to be a God.

I mean, your harp is in a terrible state.

The auction thing just says, the listing just says, it is in need of restoration.

It's in need of the kiss of life, that harp.

If I were in charge of the auction, I wouldn't let your harp into the auction room, it is full of woodworm.

It will infect everything in the room.

PAUL: You and I, # La, la, la, la, la.

# PAUL: (LAUGHS) DAVID: It's like another day at work for us.

Living the dream, brother, living the dream.

Let's just hope it doesn't turn into some nightmare.

VO: The ladies are also living the dream, but at a somewhat sleepier pace.

EDWINA: This feels a little bit like the early days of motoring, you know, bobbing along on the turnpike road.

VO: You've got an excellent memory, Edwina.

The only thing that tells you it isn't is the long queue of traffic behind us.

Oh, here they are.

At last.

EVE: I've never complained about long legs.

Come on you two, we've got auction to do.

EVE: Hello.

EDWINA: Hiya.

PAUL: Morning, ladies.

DAVID: Have you had a nice... EVE: Finally, we got here.

PAUL: Good to see you.

DAVID: Have you had a nice drive in the country?

EVE: Lovely.

PAUL: Have you?

VO: Oh good grief, stop being such luvvies and just get in there.

DAVID: Come on in, in.

Never mind all that kissy kissy thing!

DAVID: We have got some antiques to sell.

VO: Sworders Auctioneers have been in business since 1782, which makes John Black, our auctioneer, a very youthful looking 231-year-old.

He must moisturize.

VO: Today he is wielding the hammer for the antiques and collectables sale.

VO: What are his thoughts on today's lots?

The chatelaine enameled notebook holder and pencil, I think we've estimated that at between sort of 50 and £100.

JOHN: The games box, this is a lovely box.

It's lacquer, it's 19th century, it's Chinese.

All the hallmarks of a good sale item, really.

I would've thought this was probably going to make 150, £200.

JOHN: I think the harp is probably the most interesting item that you've got today.

JOHN: I mean, it should make between £200 and £300.

Good ones should make sort of over 1,000, in good condition, but this hasn't got the strings.

DAVID: But, a good, really good interesting lot.

VO: Oh, so the harp might not quite hit the bum notes we expected, then.

DAVID: That's a bit tight.

VO: Both teams started the trip with £400.

Eve and David spent £240 on five auction lots.

DAVID: Brilliant.

EVE: Thank you.

VO: Team Currie spent the marginally smaller sum of £235 and also bought five lots.

It's good, isn't it?

WAYNE: OK. EDWINA: We're done.

VO: Let's get this auction started.

DAVID: We're up first, Eve.

Which one is it?

We're going to go with the Tudric three piece.

What did you pay for these?

DAVID: 40 EVE: 40 Good buy, that.

VO: First up is the Tudric arts and crafts tea set.

Anyone for a cuppa?

And where shall we start that?

At £40, to bid if you wish.

30?

Any bids now at £30?

EVE: What?

30 I'm bid.

32, 35, 38, 40, 45, DAVID: Yes.

JOHN: 50, five.

£55... DAVID: Come on!

At £55.

I'm selling to the lady in the room.

(GAVEL) VO: A solid start, with a profit for Team Pollard, but there's no time to put the kettle on.

VO: Next up is Edwina's find - the Gatsby lot of the stay, the cigarette holder and the garters.

PAUL: Here we go.

Here we go.

JOHN: Eh, £20, to bid.

Any bids now at £20?

PAUL: Come on.

What's happening here?

JOHN: Cigarette holder, all very Great Gatsby, '20s.

PAUL: Oh, he's got it.

He's got it.

£20 to bid.

10 if you must.

Any bids now?

At 10 there.

12, 15 now?

£15.

At £15 only.

Any advance... We're crashing and burning.

JOHN: At £15.

18, 20.

22 sir?

22.

JOHN: At £22, gentleman's bid.

Say no more.

£22.

(GAVEL) DAVID: A gentleman's bid?

EVE: A gentleman's bid?

VO: Well, there was nothing great about the Gatsby lot and it's a loss for Team Currie.

EDWINA: I should've modeled those stays, shouldn't I?

If you'd have modeled them they'd have made a lot more money.

PAUL: Yeah.

On to 1170, we have the unusual pair of Victorian cast iron exercising dumbbells.

VO: Eve called them mantique, but is something that heavy bound to sink?

Any bids at £20?

20 I have now.

JOHN: Thank you, at £20.

JOHN: Any advance £20?

EVE: Come on.

JOHN: Take two if you wish anywhere?

DAVID: Go on!

22.

25.

28 in the doorway?

28 there.

DAVID: Come on.

JOHN: 30 anywhere else now?

EVE: No.

JOHN: At £28... Come on.

In the doorway.

I'm selling to you, sir at 28.

DAVID: Come on, mate.

(GAVEL) DAVID: Doh!

EDWINA: So, you're now down 12.

EVE: We were too early.

DAVID: We're too early.

We're just... EVE: Just too early.

DAVID: Ahead of fashion.

VO: Oh dear, a heavy loss for Team Pollard.

VO: Small but perfectly formed, it is the art nouveau chatelaine notebook holder that Paul spotted.

I can start the bidding, straight in at £50.

PAUL: Thank you.

JOHN: At 50 I'm bid.

Any advance?

£50 now.

I will take five to bid, if you wish, anywhere.

JOHN: At £50.

55, 60.

PAUL: Yes, go on.

JOHN: At £60?

EVE: This is their winning thing.

PAUL: Yes, come on.

No?

All done?

Then I will sell.

(GAVEL) PAUL: Not bad, Edwina.

Well done, you.

VO: It might not have been silver, Edwina, but it has got you some gold today.

VO: But all that glitters is not gold in the case of these 50s rococo style gilt wall lights.

JOHN: Where shall we start that lot?

£30 for them?

20.

PAUL: What did you pay for this?

42 and a half.

At £20, lady's bid there.

Any advance?

22, 25, 28 madam?

JOHN: 28, 30, 32,35, 38, 40, EVE: Wow.

JOHN: five, 50, five, 60, five.

DAVID: Yes, come on.

JOHN: £65.

At £65.

(GAVEL) DAVID: That's alright, that's alright.

VO: It's better than alright, it's a glittering profit.

VO: It is time for Edwina and Paul's next item - the clock with no hands.

This should be interesting.

£50 to start if you wish.

30 I'm bid, thank you.

EDWINA: 30.

JOHN: Any advance on £30?

32 I will take if you wish anywhere.

JOHN: At £30 only.

And I'll sell at £30.

(GAVEL) VO: In no time at all it's a £10 profit, but it still leaves them narrowly behind Team Pollard.

VO: Enter the dragon.

It's the Chinese lacquer box that Eve's eyes secured the deal on.

JOHN: We can start the bidding here at £80.

JOHN: Any advance on £80?

I have, on commission.

JOHN: Any advance?

90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140.

140 in the room there.

I am selling.

Make no mistake.

(GAVEL) That's a good earner, that's a good earner.

PAUL: Belter!

EVE: We knew it was.

DAVID: It's a good earner.

VO: Jeepers creepers, that is the power of Eve's peepers, and the biggest profit so far.

That pushes her and David into a storming lead.

VO: It is the German modular candles next.

30?

20 I have now, at £20?

JOHN: 22, 25, 28, 30, 32, JOHN: 35, 38, 40, 45.

Gentleman's bid this time, it's 50.

55?

55.

EVE: Ooh.

DAVID: Put the hammer down.

£60, still in the back now, 65.

PAUL: He's back in.

JOHN: He comes in again.

PAUL: Don't lose it.

JOHN: At £65 now.

70, five.

£75, and I'll sell.

(GAVEL) DAVID: Oh!

PAUL: Modern design delivered.

DAVID: Well done, well done.

EDWINA: Yes!

VO: It's delivered Paul and Edwina eine kleine profit.

Well I am the only one here, probably in the whole... between us, and the whole room, that really rates this harp.

VO: Apparently not.

The angel of the auction does too.

Though I am not sure she is entirely serious.

In need of a little bit of restoration.

(LAUGHTER) JOHN: Who would like to start?

JOHN: £100 for this, the harp, it is a lovely lot.

VO: Breaking even would constitute a success for this lot, I reckon.

50 I'm bid, thank you sir.

VO: It's not going to make a profit, is it?

JOHN: 50, 55 VO: It is.

DAVID: Come on.

65 sir?

65.

70.

VO: And it is still going.

JOHN: Five, 80, five, £85, on the pillar now.

VO: My word!

JOHN: £85, and we will sell.

(GAVEL) DAVID: Done it!

Yes!

We did it.

VO: Heavens above, people really will buy anything.

And that surprise profit puts Team Pollard into a commanding lead, with only one lot left.

VO: By my reckoning, Edwina and Paul's heavenly little balsa wood temple needs to sell for over £180 for them to win.

At 80 I am bid now, five, 90, 95, 100, and 10 your bid sir at £110 in the room.

PAUL: Come on!

JOHN: 120, 120.

Lady's bid this time 130.

Thank you.

On my right.

All done?

JOHN: 130, I am selling now for £130.

(GAVEL) DAVID: Yeah!

EVE: Yes!

VO: Oh dear, the sweet smell of success has turned out to be the dismal dome of doom.

PAUL: Well done guys.

Great auction.

EVE: Great auction, very, very close wasn't it?

EVE: It was good fun.

DAVID: Thanks Edwina.

Thank you very much.

PAUL: Well done compadre.

DAVID: Brilliant fun.

VO: Both teams started this trip with £400 in their hands.

After paying auction costs, Edwina and Paul walked away with a modest profit of £24.94, giving them a grand total of £424.94.

VO: But today's winners, on a wing and a prayer, were Eve and David, who made a heavenly profit of £65.86, and a winning total of £465.86.

VO: Well done all round, folks.

All the profits our teams make will go to Children In Need.

VO: Now it is time for the farewells.

Is David going to declare his undying love for Eve?

And is Paul going to give Edwina a hug?

EVE: Bye.

Thank you so much.

VO: It appears not.

EVE: You've been marvelous, thank you very much.

It's been a pleasure.

I wish you well.

And I wish you too.

EVE: (LAUGHS) VO: Come, come boys, stop showing off to the girls.

EVE: Lucky we are women, we don't fight about things like that.

VO: Not much!

DAVID: Bye.

Bye.

PAUL: Bye bye.

VO: Our road trip is over, but the battle of the sexes continues.

VO: Cheerio until next time.

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