VO: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts, with £200 each, a classic car and a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

That hurts.

My sap is rising.

VO: The aim?

To make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Could you do 50 quid on that?

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

JAMES: Your steering is a bit lamentable.

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip!

Yeah!

Today we're on the road for the final adventure with antiques experts James Braxton and Charles Hanson... JAMES (JB): You have been on this trip the luckiest man, you have had the Midas touch.

CHARLES (CH): Yeah, I have.

If only I could be so lucky in life James.

VO: James Braxton just can't help being charming... That is very kind, thank you very much, treasure.

Ah... treasure!

Trevor.

(LAUGHS) VO: ..and he's terribly good at getting out of tricky situations.

My most pressing problem now is to lever my frame out of this fella.

(CHUCKLES) Oh!

Blimey!

VO: This is Charles Hanson - he's got a meticulous eye.

If you look at the body... it has got two... two good top drawers.

VO: And he is really rather passionate when it comes to antiques.

Quality is improving and my sap is rising.

VO: James is having a rotten old time at auction.

Even though his tea caddy made some money, the losses are outnumbering the profits.

Charles, on the other hand, has made lots of cash.

In particular the Liberty stool and the majolica jug.

VO: James hasn't set the world on fire when it comes to making an abundance of profit.

From his original £200 he has a relatively piffling £296.92 jingling about in his back pocket.

But the triumphant fourth-time winner Charles Hanson is seemingly unbeatable.

From his original £200 he has a colossal £1,556.31.

VO: And the boys will be making their final road trip in James's adored 1952 MG. Only thing is she doesn't have a roof, not the best when the heavens descend.

CH: Well James, I have never, ever known weather like this.

JB: Oh lovely!

CH: Oh!

JB: That's a lovely...

Thank... CH: No!

VO: James and Charles are traveling 400 miles from Dulverton, West Somerset via the Isle of Wight to the county town of Truro in Cornwall.

On today's show, first stop is the town of Liskeard.

And they will auction just outside Truro...

I am looking forward to this.

Despite this inclement weather, look at the... JB: I must say, if you wrap up, you don't feel it, do you?

CH: No.

VO: The boys certainly haven't brought the sun with them as they arrive on a stormy day in the ancient market town of Liskeard.

Interesting umbrella, Charles!

The boys are sharing their first shop of the day, Bay Tree Trading Company.

And with all that rain, looks like they're going to need a good old rub down.

What weather eh?

CH: One last time.

JB: One last time.

ANDY: Morning.

CH: Nice to see you.

JB: How are you?

MICHELLE: Fine thank you.

JB: Fifth and final.

James.

MICHELLE: Michelle.

Charles.

Nice to meet you.

VO: Owner Andy and his partner Michelle have a shop crammed with interesting wares.

Well, best of luck.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

The last one James.

Make it a big one, OK?

Yeah, I am scouring.

(CHUCKLES) VO: James has got a lot of catching up to do and really needs to find some money-making goodies.

Cor, that's a weight isn't it?

So, a very nice old winged nut.

VO: This piece of great British design would be unscrewed when changing the tire of a Jaguar XK150.

Doesn't look terribly old inside but... erm... it has been bashed so they have used a copper hammer to loosen this off - you can see that where it's disturbed the chrome.

I like this fellow, it's got a fabulous weight, I like the wings, sort of ears aren't they?

MICHELLE: Yeah.

Great Jaguar item...

I like this.

Now Michelle... what could it be?

Erm, I think £10.

£10.

That's very fair, I'm... MICHELLE: Happy with that?

JB: Very happy with that.

MICHELLE: Good.

JB: There you are, a tenner.

Alright.

VO: Faster than the speed of light, James is certainly not hanging about today!

Alright, no problem.

VO: Meanwhile Charles has been searching high and low, but he just can't seem to find anything to buy.

Stop faffing about.

VO: Now, down the road, James is sniffing out a bargain at the local church.

Lordy.

Hello, I'm James.

Hello James.

Now I have heard on a little whisper around Liskeard that you've got a pulpit that you might be interested in selling.

Am I right?

You are right, yes.

Oh good.

VO: Graham is a church warden at Liskeard Methodist Church and might just be able to help James with his second buy of the day.

JB: What a glorious place.

GRAHAM: Yes.

So, this is the fellow, Graham, is it?

This is it, yes.

This is it.

Oh.

Can I have a good old squiz?

So, this is where your man or lady stands firing out fire and brimstone, making better, more worthy people.

Hey, that's lovely.

So you've got quite ordinary bits for the sort of styles and the rails, but what a fabulous figurine on pine.

GRAHAM: Yes, yes, yes.

Now, that old nutty thing on price isn't it?

Would £30... be helpful?

Did you have a figure in mind... Graham?

The figure I had in mind was £50.

£50?

Could we meet in the middle?

GRAHAM: I'm sure we could.

JB: £40.

I'd very happily give you £40.

OK.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much indeed, Graham.

VO: I like your enterprise James, but will your divine inspiration prove to be fruitful?

Charles, on the other hand, has traveled 13 miles to the Cornish town of Bodmin.

Charles is meeting with Chris Wilkes to find out about the grisly Bodmin Jail.

Hello sir.

Good afternoon sir.

Bodmin Jail.

Yes it is.

May I come in?

CHRIS: You may.

CH: Thank you very much.

You're not leaving in a hurry.

VO: Oh dear, this might be a bit scary for Charles.

VO: The prison was built in the late 18th century and was in use until 1927.

During World War I, some of Britain's priceless national treasures were given safe haven here, including the Crown Jewels and the Domesday Book.

Bodmin Jail was a milestone in prison design and it was the first in Britain to hold inmates in separate cells rather than communal areas.

And isolation areas would hold the more dangerous and threatening prisoners... like Charles.

Charles takes a wander round this dark, forbidding institution.

Chris, as we walk through here I can see on the left hand side, for a big man, there's these very big doors, doorways and on the right hand side is very slim.

Is there a reason for that?

Yeah, absolutely there is.

This was the reception landing.

Right.

And the first cells down this side and a few over that side were the punishment cells.

Hence the big doorway, so if you were a non-compliant prisoner who needed to be escorted in or dragged out, there was sufficient room for two fairly burly orderlies...

If you were... OK, got you.

..to get underneath you and wheel you in or out.

But obviously if you were a compliant prisoner, standard sized cell door.

And you behaved yourself.

And you behaved yourself, in you went.

And after a period on this floor, you would have gone upstairs CHRIS: to a daylight landing... CH: Yes.

..where you were afforded a few extra privileges that weren't available down here.

CH: OK. CHRIS: Yeah.

Chris, it wasn't me.

CHRIS: No?

Really?

CH: It wasn't me, Chris.

(BANGING) CHRIS: Oh yes it was.

(THEY CHUCKLE) So we're now... We're in a Bodmin prison cell, I can see that.

I don't feel very comfortable.

Tell me, what sort of crime must I have committed to have been justified coming into Bodmin Prison in the late 18th century?

Well you could have done anything.

Really?

If you had stolen your neighbor's sheep.

If you'd set fire to a mow of corn, you'd have probably end up being hung.

Petty theft, fairly minor crime, but this is a very clever prison.

It's got a window, I suppose, hasn't it?

It's got a window.

It's got central heating and air conditioning to every cell.

I can't see a radiator anywhere here.

No, no, no.

You've got hot air, we have hot air vents up here, so warm air would have come in.

As warm are cools, it drops, comes round to the floor, you can see a vent down there...

Yes.

..where it would have been sucked out through tubes inside the walls of the roof.

But if you look here, pins on either side, that's where you'd have slung your hammock.

CH: Really?

CHRIS: Across there.

So these are the original...?

Hammock hanging pins, yep.

Cast iron hammock hanging pins.

Where is my wash basin?

Well, I'm going to break the news to you that you might have got one bath every three months.

Really?

CHRIS: Yes.

Truth.

CH: Oh no.

OK. Now you'd have had a jug of water and a small tin bowl.

CH: Yeah.

CHRIS: That's your lot.

VO: Between 1735 and 1909, there were 60 executions in Bodmin.

Steal a sheep or some grain in Cornwall and the hangman's noose could indeed seal your fate.

Ugh.

And the last to be hanged was a 24-year-old William Hampton, found guilty of strangling his girlfriend.

Thankfully Charles, you've been released.

I should run while you can, boy!

VO: Meanwhile James is still hunting for a bargain and is traveling to the town of St Columb Major.

The town features several times in the 1961 novel Castle Dor by Daphne du Maurier.

It's still tipping it down, but nothing will stop James in his quest for finding antiques.

He's visiting Stiltskin & Walrus - ha, great name - owned by Janet.

JB: Oh, hello.

JANET: Hello.

Hello, James.

Janet, nice to meet you.

Good, nice to meet you, Janet.

What's the little thing saying "on war service"?

JANET: Oh, they're lovely.

JB: I haven't come across those.

JANET: Haven't you?

JB: No.

They're World War One, and they would have been given to people who for some reason hadn't volunteered, who weren't at the front.

And it would mean that somebody couldn't accost them in the street and call them cowards.

Oh, I see, to stop the white feather business?

JANET: That's exactly it, yeah.

VO: During World War One, white feathers were given to men who were thought to be cowardly and shirking their war duties.

The badges served to protect those exempt from military service and soldiers wearing civilian clothes.

JANET: I haven't seen many.

JB: So this is 1915?

And I understood that after a while, they weren't so many available because people were conscripted after a certain date into the First World War.

I see.

Interestingly, it was very much, you know, everybody was charging, it was volunteers, bands of brothers going to volunteer, weren't they?

Yes.

You can't decide which one you like best, can you?

I wouldn't mind those two, really.

You could leave me that one.

Shall I leave you that one?

VO: Together the badges are priced at £30.

Could you do them for 24?

I can do them for 25.

25.

Janet, I'll have them for 25.

That's really kind.

VO: And after a busy day of shopping, James, it's time to turn in.

Looks like the weather may be changing for the better.

Thank goodness.

Night-night!

VO: It's the beginning of a new day and thank goodness it's not raining.

The boys are looking forward to finding some rather lovely antique baubles.

So, final day.

Four, five items happening.

Oh James, I want to buy five items, if ever there's a day for a man of distinction to pull it out the bag, today is that day.

VO: So far, James has spent £75 on three lots - the Jaguar wheel nut, the pulpit and the World War One badges, leaving a sum of £221.92 for the day ahead.

And Charles once again hasn't spent a single penny.

He's swimming in riches though, with a huge £1,556.31 to spend.

The boys have traveled to the port town of Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall.

Falmouth is famous for its harbor and is well known for being the start or finish point of round-the-world record-breaking voyages.

Whereabouts are we now?

JB: We're still in Falmouth.

CH: OK. Yeah, and we will still be in Falmouth, because you're currently in second gear!

CH: Sorry.

JB: Hey!

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: And James looks as though he's regretting handing over the car keys to Charles.

That's it, that's it.

VO: Oh, hah!

Sorry, hold on.

Oh, sorry James, I'm sorry about that.

VO: Charles!

Young Charles certainly needs to get cracking - he hasn't bought a single thing.

Let's hope Roadshow Antiques can help him in his pursuit.

Good morning, sir.

CHRIS: Morning!

CH: How are you?

CHRIS: I'm very well.

CH: It's good to see you.

CHRIS: Hi.

Chris.

CH: My name's Charles.

Hanson.

Hi Charles, nice to meet you.

Could you guide me in a direction?

Yeah, have a look in the window over there, you've got a fire screen there which I'm pretty sure is Newlyn.

Isn't that wonderful?

This I suppose, Chris, almost captures the essence of Newlyn, doesn't it?

VO: Newlyn copper was a type of arts-and-crafts copperware originating in Newlyn, Cornwall.

It was produced in the late 19th century by unemployed fishermen.

Look around, make a decision.

Yeah, I will, thanks.

I can do a little bit on it.

I'll think about it.

Thanks, Chris.

I'm feeling a warm glow.

CH: Chris?

CHRIS: Yep.

This, erm, this stick in here, is that local?

This swagger stick?

Yep, that's Devon and Cornwall light infantry.

It's not in great condition, but that would sell well in Truro.

It is quite beaten, and this binding on the swagger stick - is that to reinforce it?

Has it been split, do you think?

Broken in half at some point, I would think.

It's been broken in half.

If I bought that, Chris, in its condition... ..what would be the best price?

Well, I've got £35 on it.

Erm, what about... what about 25?

£25, yeah, that's food for thought, Chris.

Yeah?

That could be an object - mental note.

This pillbox in here.

Oh, that's sweet.

Oh, look at that.

This is a young lady waving her sailor goodbye, and it's titled Hope, and it's circa 1790, and it's £90.

That's quite good.

And the Delft bowl here, cuz I quite like as well.

CHRIS: Completely knackered.

CH: Yeah.

CHRIS: It's going to fall apart.

CH: Is it really?

Yeah, although it has been stitched.

May I have a quick look at it?

Yeah, of course you can.

This is Delftware with a tin glaze, over an earthenware body, and this was made in Liverpool in around 1750, at the birth, at the evolution of our porcelain industry.

How much, Chris?

Ooh, dear.

It's so tired, it's so worn out, Chris.

What's the best price?

You know... What have I got on there?

85 quid.

Seems like nothing.

Does that say 85 on there?

It says 55.

Oh, it says 55.

Oh, good try.

CH: (LAUGHS) Well, if you're putting together a package...

Yes.

It could be quite expensive.

..perhaps we'll kind of, erm... think about it then.

I like it, I like your style.

OK, I like your style.

CH: I like the swagger stick.

CHRIS: Yep.

I quite like the bowl, Chris.

I also like very much the pillbox over here.

Mm-hm.

Is there any other... metalware, in terms of Newlyn school?

Copper?

There's bits of Hayle copper in there, which was a contemporary.

That one there?

And what's that one, Chris?

Hayle copper.

CH: Yes.

CHRIS: It's really a pipe rack.

But people do put them in the kitchen and put spoons in them, large spoons in them.

That's quite sweet, and we're talking again, we're going back to 1905, 1910?

Yep.

But more importantly, it's in the arts-and-crafts style.

Chris, it's priced at £55.

I think 40 would be the best I could do.

OK. OK. OK Chris, what I'll do, I would like to take a mental note of this, and if I may, put it on my table of desire.

VO: He's going to have a good go and get a combined deal with the pillbox, the spoon rack and the swagger stick.

So all three together, Chris, would be how much?

110.

110.

Would you do 60... Mm-hm.

..25, and 15... ..making it up to £100?

Which is £10 off.

£10 off my final price, do you mean?

CH: Yeah.

CHRIS: Yeah, no.

CH: No?

CHRIS: No.

OK. See £100 sounds really nice.

Shall I roll my sleeves up?

We could wrestle on the pavement for the tenner?

Do you want an arm wrestle?

Arm wrestle for a tenner?

CH: For a tenner?

CHRIS: Yeah.

You're a young man.

Are you being serious?

Yes, why not?

VO: Do your best, Charles - this is for the Road Trip.

CH: OK, Chris.

CHRIS: Whoa, away you go.

Go.

Are... Are you trying?

I am actually trying, yes.

I have weakened over the years.

VO: He's a big man, Charles.

Ugh!

VO: Steady.

CH: Yes!

CHRIS: There it is.

CH: Ha-ha!

Are you sure?

CHRIS: Yes, you're the winner.

It's a deal.

Fantastic, Chris.

VO: Well done, Charles.

Interesting haggling technique.

Just when you think he's all shopped out though...

But if I said to you, as a final last-ditch attempt, what would be the absolute best price on the copper screen, which we believe is Newlyn, and the Delft bowl together?

120 quid.

Now that's... That's the death.

That's the absolute death.

CH: Yeah.

CHRIS: Yeah.

OK. 110?

What don't you understand about, you know, this is the death?

That's it, 120 is the death.

You're a lovely chap, but 120 is the death.

And I think I'm being really generous, really.

Yeah, we'll do it, £120, we'll do it.

VO: Well I've got to hand it to you, that was an epic tour de force of buying power.

James is next to have a shot in Roadshow Antiques.

And after the marathon buy from Charles, will there be anything left?

Now, the reason I like mirrors, Chris, is because my wife likes mirrors.

And I just spotted this fellow.

You antique dealers, you'd call that immediately Regency, wouldn't you?

Or at a push, William IV, who only reigned for a nanosecond of time, but in antique terms, he could have reigned for 60 years, couldn't he?

Indeed.

Mahogany.

Mahogany.

Split turnings.

And then, do you think that was once gilded?

Gilded I think, yeah.

But somebody's rubbed it away.

What price have I got on it, James?

You've got 58 on it, Chris.

What could that be?

40 would be the death.

40?

That's very kind of you, I think I'm definitely gonna buy that.

But... Mm-hm.

..I only want that to be the start.

OK. Look at that.

Isn't that funny?

Look, a monthly medal competition.

So they were producing and engraving pewter tankards to give monthly, and it's made by Liberty's, Tudric.

Isn't that amazing?

And the nice thing about this is it's got a lovely shape, it's well designed, isn't it?

It is.

And you've got another one.

VO: The original price on the tankards is £28 each.

Erm, now what could you do the two for me, Chris?

40 the pair.

40 the pair?

That's what I would have said if you hadn't told me they were by Liberty's!

Probably 140 the pair now.

(THEY CHUCKLE) I'll be good, 40 quid.

That's really kind, I'm gonna take them.

VO: £40 for the pair of tankards and £40 for the mirror - good going, James.

Shopping now over, James is motoring 35 miles south to Porthcurno in Penzance.

VO: James is paying a visit to Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, which formerly housed a very important hub of international communication.

In the 19th century the telegraph took the world by storm.

For the first time, a message could be sent instantly rather than being delivered by letter, which revolutionized the speed of world communications.

And this is where it all started.

James is meeting with John Packer, former employee of the station.

God, this looks like a military establishment from the outside, doesn't it?

It is pseudo military, it was in World War II that the tunnels were dug...

Right.

..to protect a very important communication center.

And this is all about early communications, isn't it?

Telegraph.

Well, the first communications here was in 1870, and a cable under the sea was laid from here to Bombay.

It was India's first direct electrical communication with the mother country.

JB: Well, show me the way.

VO: With the advent of World War II, the station had become so important it had to be protected.

Secret tunnels were dug by Cornish miners to house an underground building and the entire telegraph operations.

These bomb and gas proof tunnels protected 14 secure cables out of the UK to its allies.

The museum has some of the equipment used in the Victorian era which displays a technology from which today's computer age grew.

So this is where it all starts, is it?

This is the digital age, Victorian style.

This is sending in binary code, left and right, left and right, by hand... Yep.

Left, left, right, left, left, right, left, left, left, right, left, right, left.

Noughts and ones, positives and negatives, binary code, computer code...

Right, yep.

..this is where it all started.

JB: All started.

JOHN: The Victorian internet.

So the alphabet is simplified into this binary code?

Precisely.

This is what you were sending through those mighty cables, was it?

This is the earliest form of sending, by hand, and on the receiving end, a signal received on paper tape, as a squiggly line, above and below, above and below, the central line, dots and dash, mark and space, noughts and ones.

Right.

Right.

VO: Basically a telegraph transmits and receives messages over long distances.

The message would be sent by Morse code and the end message was called a telegram.

So this is the next stage, is it?

We've moved on now to the late 1920s, and now instead of sending by hand, we tap away on a keyboard.

Right.

And produce holes in paper tape.

This is our binary code.

JB: That's the binary code.

Above and below the center line, you can place that in a thing called an auto transmitter.

Lovely mechanical object, isn't it?

And so that's reading it, isn't that great?

This is now reading the tape and sending it at a speed faster than I could do it by hand.

Yep, yeah.

VO: The ever-improving advances in communication technology put Porthcurno at the center of the war effort.

So you're taking me back to World War II here, are you, John?

World War II equipment, and we're in the room, the workshop, where it was maintained.

Right.

And this, this building, this communications center, was very important in the Second World War, wasn't it?

It was of vital importance.

Vital importance.

We've said it was the gateway to the world, it was the gateway to the world of World War II, for secure communications.

With our allies, you know, that's America, the other side of the pond.

And as we had more cables than the enemy, we had a better network, we had a more elaborate system of communicating around the world in a manner that could not be intercepted.

Right.

VO: Once so vital to the world, the telegraph became a museum piece, but it's the ancestor of modern communications.

Well John, it's been really fascinating, thank you.

VO: Tour over, James needs to rendezvous with young Charles and have a gander at one another's treasures.

What on Earth have you bought?

I don't know whether I'm overwhelmed or underwhelmed.

Really?

Tell me, what is the whipped stick here?

What is that?

James... Is that one of those canes?

James, all week, I've walked with a swagger, OK.

Exactly, swagger stick.

I like your swagger stick.

Thanks, buddy.

What's local to maybe this neck of the woods, apart from St Ives and the arts center there?

You've also got Newlyn, exactly.

So I've gone for a cracker over there, but James... A bit of copper, a bit of copper.

How much?

I think you paid £50 for it.

I paid £100.

What is the bowl?

Show me the bowl.

James, the bowl is tired, it's worn out, but it goes back to around 1750, it's a Liverpool Delft bowl.

How much?

I think you bought it cheaply, I'd say £30.

CH: £20.

JB: £20, well done.

VO: It's your turn now James - show Charles what you've got.

Here are my items.

Very good.

All of them, and one was just too big and heavy, and everything.

VO: And by the wonders of modern technology, James has brought a photo of the pulpit.

I like it.

You like it?

It looks to be in that neo-Gothic, high Victorian...

It does, doesn't it?

..manner.

Very attractive little carpet panels.

So you found it purely by chance?

Well, I heard a whisper that this chap was keen to get rid of it.

Yes.

So I thought it was worth a visit.

I bought a rostrum... How much for?

..not too dissimilar, and it cost me about £300.

£40.

CH: It wasn't!

JB: £40.

CH: £40?

JB: £40.

Well, maybe your luck's turning!

JB: I saw these on the shelf... CH: Yes.

..in Falmouth.

Yes.

And I just liked the design of it.

Yes, yes.

Liberty's.

Iconic name.

They're great to handle, they feel great.

Cheers, cheers!

Cheers.

Yes, rather.

How much?

Er, £40 for the two.

Oh, that's very cheap.

That's very good, I think they'd be worth at auction, between 50 and 80.

VO: But what about the mirror?

CH: It is a very nice mirror, isn't it?

JB: It's a nice mirror, the sort of mirror you can put anywhere, isn't it?

It will add tone to your loo, won't it?

I think you've gone bold and big.

I reckon you paid £55.

JB: 40.

CH: Good, good buy, yeah.

Anyway Charles, it's been great.

CH: I'm very excited.

JB: Come on.

CH: Good man.

JB: Well done.

Well done, well done, well done.

VO: But what do they really think?

He is unquantifiable, that man.

Those little items will make a fortune at auction.

I don't like them.

He suggests to me that James will walk the plank.

Yeah, I agree.

VO: It's been an ambitious finale with the boys battling it out from Liskeard via Bodmin, St Columb Major, Falmouth, Porthcurno and finally to Truro in Cornwall.

And as our boys arrive in the village of Ladock in Truro, it's time to find out who will be this week's Road Trip winner.

Will Charles make it five in a row and be crowned reigning champion?

Philip Buddell Auctions has been established in Cornwall for the last 30 years.

Auctioneer and proprietor Philip offers up some thoughts.

If I'd been in their shoes, I don't think I would have purchased a church pulpit, I think that's really stretching my ability just a little far today.

VO: James Braxton started today with £296.92 and spent £155 on five auction lots.

Charles Hanson began with £1,556.31 and spent £220 on five lots.

Quiet please!

The auction is about to begin.

This is it.

This is...

The final one.

VO: First up it's James's William IV mahogany mirror.

£10, 10 I'm bid, at 10, 12 at the back, at 12.

Do you think if they turned it round the right way JB: it might make a bit more?

CH: It's fine, it's fine.

18, £20, £20 I'm bid, at 20.

And two.

And four.

And six.

At 26 I have, £28 in front, at 28, 30 at the back, at £30.

At 30 I'm bid, at two, £32, bidding in front at 32.

JB: Oh, well done.

CH: It's moving.

It's moving.

JB: Fresh bidding.

..the bidding at 36.

Well done.

Go on, son!

Oh, wow!

At 40 I'm bid, at 40.

At £40, 42 or not?

At £40.

All done at 40.

Two or not?

He's going to lose money if we're not careful!

At 40 and selling.

Well done.

JB: Well done.

CH: Is that a profit?

JB: No.

CH: Profit, is that...?

VO: The atmosphere here is electric.

Pity it didn't fetch a profit, though.

It's James again with the stylish pair of Liberty tankards.

Right, what are you gonna say on those?

£10 on the pair of tankards?

JB: £10.

CH: Well done.

10?

Five!

Five I'm bid, at five I have, at £5 on the two.

Six, at six I'm bid, seven, at seven and £8.

Not quite the units I was hoping for!

At 10 I'm bid, 12.

At 12, 14.

At £14, £14, 16?

At £14, £16.

At 16 on the right, at 16.

18.

At 18 I have, at 18.

20 I'm bid, at 20.

At £20 I have, at 20.

22.

That pays for one.

..an awful lot more than that, you know that, sir.

At £22.

The hammer's up, all done for 22, and I sell.

£22.

VO: Unexpected result there, James.

The only way is up, surely?

We were both slightly out on that one, weren't we?

VO: It's now Charles's turn with the swagger stick next.

PHILIP: What are you gonna say on that?

Start me at £20.

Two.

(CHUCKLES) 22?

Two quid!

PHILIP: My godfathers!

CH: Oh no!

At two I'm bid, at £2, £2 I have, four, six, eight, at eight, 10, 12, at 12 I'm bid at 12.

14, 16, 18... History, absolutely.

22, 24, at 24... Well done, the Midas touch!

26, 26 I'm bid.

28.

At 28 I have, £28.

£28, bidding to my right.

At 28.

Charles is getting excited!

I'll sit down, sorry, I'll sit down.

At £30, 32.

34?

34 I have, at £34, 36, 36, bidding on the far right.

38 bidding here, at £38.

£38.

At 38 I'm bid, at 38 bidding here, at 38, 40.

At 40 I'm bid and two, 42.

PHILIP: At £42, 44 or not?

(RINGING) At 42, have you all done?

you'll regret it later.

Oh shut up, clock!

At £42, 44 or not?

It would be midday!

At 42.

CH: History, well done sir.

(RINGING STOPS) ..for £42.

Thank God for a bit of quiet.

At £42, all done, I sell at 42.

£42.

Bingo, Bingo.

Bingo, Bingo.

That's great.

VO: Charles turns the tide of fortune with a good profit.

And it's Charles's turn again with the cracked Delft bowl.

20?

10?

10?

Must be worth 10.

10 I'm bid, at 10, 12, 14, 16.

At 16, 18, 18, 20.

22, 24, at £24 I'm bid, at 24, 26, 28, 30...

I'm in profit.

Keep going.

Keep going.

At £34, £36, 36, 38, 38 I'm bid, at £38, 40 on the right, at £40 I'm bid, 42.

At 42, 44.

At 44, 44 I have.

This is cheap.

46.

It isn't cheap!

£48, 50.

At £50, 55, at £55, £55, 55, 60.

At £60 I'm bid, and five.

At 65, bidding here at 65.

Still cheap!

I sell... at £65.

Well done, well done.

VO: Profit number two for Charles - a good speculative buy there.

Can you make it three in a row, Charles?

It's the copper spoon rack next.

Former pipe rack, but probably now a spoon rack, or even... it might even take one of these, can you try one of these out?

What's he doing?

Oh, oh, here we are.

A bit of theater.

JB: Egg rack.

CH: Egg rack, oh, good idea.

PHILIP: Yes it does.

CH: Perfect.

Oh, it's an egg rack.

So it's gone from a pipe to spoon, and now it's an egg rack.

Put it in, mate.

Oh, dear me.

Egg, spoon... We can have an egg and spoon rack.

Who's going to start me at £30 on this wonderful rack?

30, thank you, £30 I'm bid, at £30.

He's at the back.

Keep going.

And five.

At 35, 40.

At 40 I'm bid, at 40.

Five did you say now, at 40.

And five.

At 45, I have 50 in the corner.

At £50 I'm bid, at 50 and five.

55 I have, at 55.

At £55, 55, 60.

At 65.

65, fresh bidder.

Fresh bidder.

Yes.

Five, at 75...

Brilliant, brilliant.

PHILIP: 80.

CH: Brilliant!

£80 bidding in the corner, 85?

At 85.

90.

Yes, 90!

Thank you, thank you.

£90, at £90.

Five.

At 95.

Oh, wonderful.

Well done, well done.

Let's round it up now to the ton.

And selling on my right at 95.

Wow, wow, wow, wow!

VO: Ha-ha!

The winner of the egg and spoon race.

Yet another wonderful profit for the Hanson kitty!

I just had a god looking down at me, looking after my objects - it's just been unbelievable.

I know, it has been unbelievable.

VO: It's Charles yet again, this time with the Newlyn-style fire screen.

£30.

30?

Must be worth, thank you.

30, 30 I'm bid, at 30.

And five, at 35, 35 I have, 40 I'll take.

At £35, £35.

40 down here.

At 40 I have, fresh bidder at 40.

At 45.

45 in the middle... JB: I'm rather enjoying this.

CH: Keep going.

Oh, it's cheap.

I'm watching you struggle a bit.

CH: It's cheap.

JB: No it isn't.

It's very expensive.

55, at 55.

55.

I saw the twitch.

60, at £60 I'm bid, at 60.

65.

At 65 I have...

Put the hammer down!

70, the chap won't be able to afford to go home unless you bid a bit more!

At £70, £70, 75 will you say?

At 70, 75.

That's enough, that's enough.

Keep going.

£80 I have, at 80.

At £80 bidding here, at 80.

And five!

Keep going!

Please.

At 85, 85, 90.

At £90, bidding on the front row at 90.

PHILIP: Any advance on £90?

CH: Oh!

The gavel is up at 90.

I sell.

(GAVEL) PHILIP: £90.

JB: Oh, well done.

CH: I lost £10.

JB: God.

CH: I've lost £10!

(THEY CHUCKLE) CH: What a shame.

VO: Ah, what a shame.

Unusual to see you with a loss there, Charles.

But sometimes...

I never thought I'd see this moment on this Road Trip.

Is this your first loss?

For a long time.

VO: Back to you James - it's the Jaguar wheel nut next.

Can you finally score a profit?

Your opportunity to build a car from scratch!

(LAUGHTER) Start me at £10.

10 I'm bid, at 10.

Oh, we're off, we're off.

Well done, well done, well done.

At 10 I'm bid, at 10.

12.

14.

16 at the back.

At £16, 18 in front.

At £18...

I'm going to make history!

At £22, £22, 24.

26.

At 26 on my right, the bidding at 26, 28 at the back, at £28...

Racing away, accelerating!

30 I have, 32 in the middle.

At £32, £32, 34 or not?

I sell at £32.

Four, at 34.

Just... Well done, that man!

Well done.

Good timing.

At £34, brinkmanship.

36, £36.

Must be worth more than that.

The hammer's up, I sell at £36.

36.

JB: Wahey!

CH: Now.

That was good.

VO: Finally - a sizable profit, James.

Now it's his unusual World War I badges.

I'm going to start the bidding with me at £8.

Nine.

At nine I have, 10 with me.

12.

I'm out.

14.

At £14, 16, 18 at the back.

At £18, at 18 I'm bid, 20 I'll take.

PHILIP: At £18.

CH: Keep going.

Keep going, come on.

PHILIP: 20.

JB: Well done.

22.

Well done.

At 22, 24.

24.

26 at the back.

28 on the right.

£30 bidding at the back, at 30.

At £30, 32.

At £32, bidding to my right.

Selling, all done for £32?

JB: Well done.

CH: It just shows.

VO: Blimey, two profits in a row, James - congratulations!

Back to Charles.

The sweet little pillbox is his final item.

Where will you start me on this one?

£20.

20 on this lovely little... CH: Oh no.

JB: 10, 10, 10?

Must be worth something, Bilson's.

Thank you, 20 I'm bid.

At 20, at £20, 25.

25 I have, 30.

35.

35 I have, at 35.

40 I'm bid, at 40.

Keep going.

It's worth all of that.

It must be worth a lot more, 45 at the back.

At £45 I'm bid, at 45.

No, come on.

50 I've got, at 50.

At £50, bidding on the right, 55 at the back of the room, at 55.

60 on my right, at £60.

At £60 I'm bid, and five I'll take from you, at £60.

CH: Yes!

JB: 65.

£70 I'm bid, at 70.

Any advance on £70?

The hammer's up, selling at £70.

PHILIP: 70.

JB: Well done.

Great trip.

Well done, well done.

Oh, I got there in the end, James!

VO: Indeed you did, Charles - another profit to add to your hoard.

Finally, it's our last lot of the day.

It's James's Gothic pulpit.

It only needs to make over £1,600 to take James into the lead!

Ha, snowflake's chance.

At, what shall we say?

£50?

£50.

50, and a unique piece of furniture... Come on Jim, this is your finale.

Start me at 20 then.

£20.

£20 on the pulpit - not asking the Earth, surely?

10 then?

I know how you love your pulpits.

£10?

Thank you.

At 10 I'm bid, from number one, at £10 I have on the pulpit, at 10.

At 10, 12.

At 12 I have, at 12.

14 bid, it's at.

At £12 bidding at the back, at 12.

At £12, you're being very disappointing here.

At 12 I'm bid, at 14 or not?

At £12 on the pulpit.

Any advance on 12 on the pulpit?

JB: (LAUGHS) Selling at the back of the room, at £12.

PHILIP: 14.

JB: Well done.

At 14, 14, 16.

At £16.

Saved!

18 or not?

At 16 I'm bid.

You're causing me a lot of hard work.

PHILIP: £16, 18, I'll take.

JB: 18.

At £16, all done at 16?

PHILIP: Selling... (GAVEL) 16 to 269.

Come here, mate.

Come here.

JB: (GROANS) Come here, mate.

CH: Listen.

Come here, hey.

(BIDDERS EXCLAIM) I know, come on, mate.

It's been one of those trips.

VO: Aw, poor old James.

A little cuddle from Charles will make everything better.

16, unlucky.

Sad day.

VO: So for the fifth time this week, the young pretender is the reigning supremo at auction.

JB: Well done Charles.

CH: Thanks James.

JB: It's been a great pleasure.

CH: It's been wonderful.

Go on, let's go... uncover that car.

VO: James started today's show with £296.92 and after paying auction costs made a small loss of £35.28, leaving him with a final balance of £261.64.

Charles, meanwhile, started with a mighty £1,556.31 and made a profit of £76.84 today, bringing his final earnings to £1,633.15, and making him this week's jubilant winner.

Well done, boy.

Watch out, watch out.

Go, go, go.

CH: OK, well done, James.

JB: Well done!

(HORN HONKS) VO: All the money our experts make will go to Children In Need.

James and Charles's Road Trip adventure has all too soon come to an end.

Over the past week we've had changeable weather...

I feel like dancing in the rain.

VO: James regretted giving Charles a whiz in his MG. Don't say sorry, just do it.

Sorry.

Don't say sorry.

Sorry!

JB: Don't say sorry!

CH: I won't say it again!

OK. VO: Ha!

Charles got rather excitable.

I'm so nervous, I need the toilet.

VO: They both went off on a magnificent island adventure.

Pirates are like this.

CH: Yeah, exactly.

JB: With berets.

Let's go make our fortune, mate!

VO: Thanks, boys - this has been a blast!

(HORN BLARES) VO: Next week on the Antiques Road Trip, we have a new couple - rivals Philip Serrell and Anita Manning.

Auctioneers both, but with little else in common.

ANITA: I love it, because it goes with my boots.

PHILIP: Is that the way the week's going to go?

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