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

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

I like that.

VO: ..and a classic car.

Feeling confident?

Er... VO: Their mission?

To scour Britain for antiques.

(GLASS SMASHES) Look at you.

You're really good!

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

(GASPS) Is it a find?

VO: But it's no easy ride.

XAND VAN TULLEKEN: Hey, come on!

VO: Who will find a hidden gem?

(MIMICS DUCK) Take me with you.

VO: Take the biggest risk?

Have you got a tow truck?

VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?

I might have bought rubbish.

Who knows?

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

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Come on.

Someone else!

Someone!

VO: Put your pedal to the metal!

Aah!

VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

VO: Today's trip starts out in rural Northamptonshire, in the company of a couple of TV presenters and disability rights campaigners.

How are you with where we are?

I'm a city boy, so I've not seen this much grass in one place at one time.

I grew up in Hampshire, so I have our back in the countryside.

VO: Thanks, Katie.

Yes, that's Katie Piper, activist and model, at the wheel, and by her side, her old chum, Adam Pearson, activist and public speaker.

I feel like you were one of the first to be, "This is me.

I'm not hiding it.

This is who I am."

I know, I was like a pioneer in that regard.

VO: Adam, who has neurofibromatosis, started out as a TV researcher before fronting ground-breaking TV documentaries.

He's also now a successful movie actor, and apparently knows a thing or two about antiques.

ADAM: Don't do Clarice Cliff.

It's overpriced as hell right now.

If you're going to buy silver, try and buy local.

This feels like really professional advice!

VO: Crikey Moses!

Katie, who has an OBE for her work helping people who have suffered disfigurement, first became well-known because of a program about her own recovery from severe burns.

It's always lovely to see you, but it's also a competition, right?

Yeah, OK.

So how competitive are you?

Oh, mega.

VO: Oh, good!

Those two will have £400 each and a couple of classic cars.

The Mini, though, is Katie's choice.

ADAM: I love it.

I could have turned up in a Rolls-Royce.

That would have been allowed, but I was like, "No, let's take it back."

ADAM: Keeping it classic, right?

KATIE: Keep it classic.

Like, if we run out of budget, we can just rip the cassette player out and sell that.

We can.

VO: They will also, of course, be able to receive wise counsel from our equally car-fixated experts in the sporty number.

Is it gorgeous or what?

ROO IRVINE: It is beautiful.

I have a confession.

I am an Alfa Romeo girl.

Are you really?

I love that gorgeous Italian red.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

We're going to be living "La Dolce Vita".

VO: Yes!

That's "Alfa" female and Scotland's own Roo Irvine in the passenger seat, and the "Romeo" by her side is David Harper.

Wherefore from art thou?

Barnard Castle, of course.

I'm a great fan of Adam because I love his humor, when I've seen him on TV.

I think I'm really looking forward to being with Katie, because she's so inspirational and so warm.

VO: And it looks like the mood in the Mini is equally upbeat.

So you're with the lovely Roo.

She's great.

I've got the man, the myth, the legend, David Harper.

Yeah.

He's such a snappy dresser.

I think we're both quite snappy dressers, to be fair.

Will you override him and make the executive decision?

I'm going to try not to, but I do sometimes get carried away.

VO: Ah.

Just when we thought he was going to be all sensible.

Their antiquing journey will take them from the south Midlands towards the River Thames, starting out in Northampton.

Shoe-making capital, birthplace of several composers and the hometown of goth rock pioneers Bauhaus.

And here come our celebrities.

ADAM: I am excited.

I'm excited, but is this where the friendship ends?

ADAM: You assume we had one.

BOTH: (LAUGH) VO: Competition commences at Click Antiques & Vintage.

Wow.

Oh, my goodness!

ADAM: This is impressive.

KATIE: Yeah!

This feels like a lot of possibilities here.

KATIE: Don't you think?

ADAM: It does.

Multiple possibilities for you...to lose!

VO: Crikey.

Come on, experts - hopes are clearly high.

KATIE: Hello.

ROO: Katie!

How are you doing?

I'm good, I'm so excited to meet you!

Me too!

What do you think of my little owl?

That's very cute.

ROO: Although, at £245, we won't be buying him.

KATIE: Wow.

OK... ROO: How are you feeling?

What are you looking for?

I'm very easily distracted, especially in a room like this.

I kind of get drawn to, like, beauty, but I do also quite like sparkly things.

You know?

I'm a bit of a magpie.

We're the exact same.

Yeah.

Are going to draw me out, or are you going to run with me?

I'll probably run with you!

VO: Well, that was convivial.

David Harper, as I live and breathe.

How are you?

Adam Pearson, what a delight to see you!

We ready to do this?

We ready to... DAVID: Of course.

ADAM: ..crush the competition?

I like the evil hand movement.

That's how you know I mean it.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

Love Katie.

Great to see her.

DAVID: Shall we do it?

ADAM: Let's rock and roll, baby.

Let's rock and roll.

DAVID: You lead the way.

VO: They've also thoroughly bonded... ROO: (LAUGHS) KATIE: Oh, you're really close!

VO: ..with everyone now ready to rummage.

OK.

So... ..this is something that I've been drawn to.

ROO: Oh, the colors are beautiful...

I'm glad you reacted like that.

ROO: A lovely teal, isn't it?

KATIE: Yeah.

KATIE: So that's exactly how I felt.

Kind of reminded me of a mermaid.

ROO: Oh, yes, of course!

The hourglass figure, the beautiful hips.

KATIE: The scales.

ROO: And that's almost like the color of the ocean.

Yeah... And then I thought, like, if I was at an auction, this would really catch my eye.

The only thing I think you might not like is there's a hairline scratch just up here.

ROO: Oh, yeah... VO: Satsuma porcelain.

Ticket price £125.

ROO: It's a lovely piece, and I love the herons.

It's a very Japanese and Korean Oriental motif, and nothing in Oriental antiques is there by accident.

It all has a message.

I think if we could get that at, say... ..60, 70?

And can you haggle down that far from 125?

Is that OK then?

There's no harm in asking.

KATIE: Yeah.

ROO: I mean, do you love it?

I do, yeah.

I think it's beautiful.

But whether it would appeal to enough people in the auction, I don't know.

Alright, well, let's keep looking and then we can ask.

Or maybe you can ask!

KATIE: Yeah!

Sounds like a plan.

ROO: (LAUGHS) VO: Well, they're up and running.

ADAM: David... DAVID: It's a sign!

VO: He knows his stuff.

ADAM: I really like it.

I think it's really funny.

Have you had these things before?

Had an experience with these old enamel signs?

No, but I was always sort of like obsessed with, like, old branding.

Yeah.

ADAM: In the days before social media, how did people let you know about their product, above all else?

And this is just like a relic of that bygone era.

When buildings were just plastered with, "Buy our stuff, buy our stuff."

So how old would you say?

I would...

I would guess... ..Second World War-ish.

But I've never heard of that one!

'A sparkling and fruit squash', but 'all the family drinks it', whatever it is.

VO: Corona was based in South Wales and their first plant has since been turned into a recording studio - The Pop Factory!

Ha!

DAVID: What sort of money is it?

ADAM: 125.

It's not cheap.

That's the great thing about these objects.

They do grab you.

Some things make you smile.

That makes me smile.

VO: It could be a shrewd buy.

They usually do well.

ADAM: It's seen better days, I'll give it that.

But if we could get it for the right price...

I like it, I think it's really cool and really charming.

I don't think we'll find it again.

But we've got to be mercenary here.

What are you like at negotiating?

ADAM: I'm pretty good.

DAVID: Are you?

ADAM: If we were just negotiating on this, it would be a real hard, hard thing.

What I think we should do is go in, find a few more things.

and then negotiate like a job lot.

It's almost like you've done this before.

ADAM: Well, I know my way around...a haggle.

VO: He can certainly come again!

How are the other pair getting on?

ROO: Now, I saw, three letters caught my eye here - WMF.

KATIE: What does that mean, then?

ROO: Now they were a German company that were making...cutlery, and silverware in the sort of 1800s, late 1800s.

And then as we got into the art nouveau era, art deco, they were making really stunning statement pieces.

So anything with WMF on it is quite collectable.

You can't fit the full name in there, but in German it's something like Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik.

VO: Yeah, something like that.

Austrian silver plate.

ROO: But the reason I like them, it says here, 'A set of six WMF goblets' 'from the officers' mess...' KATIE: Oh, wow!

ROO: '..RAF in Koln, Germany,' 'fully stamped on the base' 'with a British Broad Arrow War Department stamp -' 'see attached info.'

So they've done all the provenance for us.

That is the symbol there with the arrow.

KATIE: Yeah... ROO: This is military interest.

ROO: This is a collectable name, WMF.

And there's six of them and it's £65.

I definitely think it's worth it and I feel quite attached to it now you've told me all that history.

Yeah, me too.

I'm getting quite excited because... ..it's just ticking so many boxes.

KATIE: Mm.

VO: And talking of ticking... Oh, sorry.

ADAM: Ah, David, what do you think here?

DAVID: Oh, now, I love that.

But why do you love it?

Well, growing up, A - I was obsessed with trains.

So, Thomas The Tank Engine - my jam.

I once learned one of the books to the point I convinced my teacher I could read.

Right.

And also my mother's father owned a watch and clock place.

No way!

Yeah, like, repairs and what-have-you.

So she was surrounded by...this kind of stuff.

VO: Yeah, hang on.

I thought Adam was intending to make a cool, calculated buy.

ADAM: Maybe... (SIGHS) ..late '50s, early '60s?

DAVID: I think it's earlier than that.

ADAM: Really?

DAVID: Yeah, I do.

I do.

I mean, it sort of screams late Victorian, early 20th century to me.

OK, well, then I'm even more impressed by the condition.

So a spring-wound movement, 325.

DAVID: What's your feeling?

ADAM: It's a lot.

But then...quality costs a lot.

My brother's a stickler for a bargain, and I'm like, oh, kind of, "Cheap garbage is still garbage."

So if we can get it down in the 250 area.

I get really annoyed when I watch this show and they spend 80 quid and I'm like, "What are you doing?!"

We came to play, right?

Listen, I'm all in!

I always say I'll blow the lot as long as we've got good-quality stuff.

And you've found good-quality stuff.

VO: They both have!

And there's no sign of a halt just yet either.

Ooh, wow.

What do you think?

ROO: That is stunning!

That's a beautiful, perfect example of a Victorian clock.

It's gorgeous, isn't it?

It's really cool.

ROO: What I love about this is the quality, and that's one of the nicest examples I've seen.

Now, the maker's name, it says that it's French-made, but it's JW Benson.

And they were going sort of late 1800s, and they were a very, very good name in clock-making.

VO: Founded in 1847, in the City of London.

KATIE: It's actually 75, which I thought was quite good.

KATIE: What do you think?

ROO: That's not bad.

Yeah, it's got quite a lot going for it.

The only problem I think is lifting it up and getting it in my Mini!

ROO: That's your job, missus!

KATIE: That's true.

VO: Charming.

Claire's the woman to talk to when required.

KATIE: Hello.

ADAM: Ah, hello.

Ready to be...dealt a thrashing?

Well, if it's all going down the pan, I've got something for you.

ADAM: Ah...classy.

KATIE: (LAUGHS) KATIE: How's it going?

ADAM: It's going well.

We've seen a few very cool things that I'm going to try and haggle on.

Nice.

And have you got a strategy of what you're going for?

ADAM: I'm going for things I think will sell at auction.

KATIE: OK.

Whether I like it is irrelevant.

I'm the total opposite, I'm not going to lie!

I'm literally walking around like a magpie, and I'm seeing things that I want in my home and I'm getting attracted to them.

(GROANS) That's not what you do!

I dunno.

I'm feeling if I like it, I'm invested in it.

Well, I'll see you at the auction, won't I?

Good luck!

Good luck.

So far, interesting shop... going great.

I'm keeping one eye on David, another eye on the competition.

How I've done that with one eye, I've got no idea, but we did it.

So, yeah, it's good.

It's good.

I'm having fun.

It's going well.

VO: Their respective shortlists are certainly lengthening... ..and now Katie and Roo have stepped outside.

ROO: Now I love this.

KATIE: Oh, wow.

KATIE: Look at this.

ROO: I love this!

KATIE: I kind of love how beaten around the edges it is because it holds a bit of character.

Absolutely.

I start sort of, like, storytelling in my head of like, where was it once?

What's the whole story and journey?

So you completely immerse yourself in... KATIE: Yeah!

ROO: ..don't you?

It's like you're watching a movie when you go to an antiques shop.

I mean, I think enamel signs are the one area where, yes, condition always matters, but rust is good.

VO: Of course!

Adam's already got his dibs on the fizzy pop one!

With an enamel sign, you need to inspect it.

Is it original?

How can you tell the difference between a replica and an original, then?

Well, if it wasn't screwed to the wall we could have a look at the back of it.

But with this, you really want rust.

And if you look along this line here, it almost looks like it's so crumbly you could probably just...crumble it away.

So on this occasion, that's a good thing.

VO: No ticket price, though.

ROO: A dream buy would be to get this for south of 150, and it just doesn't happen.

How much would you expect to pay, then?

It could be £300, £400, £500, £600, £700.

Wow.

You know, it's such a hot market that it depends on the shop.

And I love the fact there's no price on it.

That's an open invitation.

ROO: Open invitation.

KATIE: OK, got you.

VO: I think they're done, with the Satsuma, the clock and the goblets also up for grabs.

Hello!

Oh, you have so many treasures!

Oh, that's nice to know.

ROO: I mean, these actually, these are my favorite, but what amazing price could they be?

Tell me where you're thinking.

CLAIRE: That would be easier.

ROO: 40?

CLAIRE: Can you do 45?

ROO: 45?

We really want them.

So I think 45's a good price.

ROO: 45.

KATIE: Yeah.

ROO: Then there's a Victorian slate and marble clock.

Now that's priced up at 75.

Could that be 40?

Yeah.

Knowing the dealer, I think we'll get away with that one.

The other one, you fell in love with the Satsuma vase.

KATIE: Do you know what, it was the colors.

Very beautiful.

I think that's up for 125.

I was hoping for 75.

I think we've got the margin on that one.

Yeah.

OK. Amazing!

ROO: The big Wills's sign... CLAIRE: Yes.

OK, there's no price on there.

So if you did it for 180, that would be everything for 340.

Yeah.

Would you do everything for 330 and we'll take all four?

Oh, you're cheeky.

Go on.

Wow.

We just spent £330!

VO: Chin-chin, everyone!

BOTH: Cheers!

VO: Quite a splash.

And look at all that cash!

Wow.

With £170 for the sign, 75 for the vase, 45 for the goblets, and 40 for the clock.

Although it's definitely not all going to fit in that boot.

Ha!

KATIE: Let's hit the road, shall we?

(CLAPS) Oh, yeah!

VO: With 70 left over.

Back inside, Adam's taken a shine to something else.

ADAM: David.

DAVID: Oh, bit of bling or what?

ADAM: Two words, my friend - Royal Worcester.

DAVID: It smacks you right in the face as soon as you come close to it and I love it for that.

It's very kind of like Aladdin, cave of wonders.

Like, I'm pretty certain there's a genie in here.

DAVID: Ha!

There probably will be!

What do you know about Royal Worcester?

Oh, not...not a lot.

People would talk about this tea set.

All my mates would be like, "Have you seen what Pearson's bought?

"He's bought a gold tea set!"

Some garish things are good!

And not only is it good in its appearance, it's good in its quality, Adam.

Royal Worcester, I mean, really super-duper maker, been around for centuries, has Worcester.

But that is 24-carat gold... ..plated.

ADAM: (SIGHS) You nearly had me.

DAVID: (LAUGHS) VO: Ticket price £50.

So hang on a minute.

To sum up, we've looked at the enamel sign... Yeah.

DAVID: ..the railway clock.

ADAM: Yeah.

DAVID: ..and now we're putting this in the mix as well.

Are you any good at maths?

It...it's more than what we have.

(LAUGHS) OK, quite a lot more!

VO: Needing snookers.

OK.

Follow me.

DAVID: You do the talking.

ADAM: Excellent.

VO: Here we go.

ADAM: Oh, hello, Claire.

CLAIRE: Hello.

Now, I have my eye on a few things.

OK. And if I'm going to beat Katie, which is really important, I'm after the wall clock... OK. VO: Ticket price 325.

..the sign... VO: Ticket price 125.

ADAM: ..and the Royal Worcester tea set.

CLAIRE: Yeah.

So I'm thinking 250 on the wall clock... CLAIRE: Yeah.

ADAM: ..50 on the sign... ..and your best on the tea set.

I think we can do that.

And the tea set was 50, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think we could do 30 on that.

OK.

So that would come to 330, by my maths?

That sounds right.

Yeah.

Excellent.

Done.

VO: Another big one.

£70 left over.

ADAM: Happy days.

DAVID: Are you happy with that?

ADAM: I'm happy if you're happy.

VO: Everybody's happy!

Except about their boot capacity, of course.

DAVID: Here we go.

VO: Bye bye, fellas.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Northampton, our other pair are taking a break from the shopping to discover something of the town's industrial heritage.

Because for almost 1,000 years, Northampton has been associated with leather, one of the very first human inventions... Oh, wow.

Look at all this stuff!

VO: ..and Katie and Roo have come to the Museum of Leathercraft to learn more from James Hawksley.

Hello.

You must be James!

JAMES: Hi, Katie.

Hi, Roo.

ROO: How are you doing?

So what's going on here?

This looks very interesting.

JAMES: Well, currently we are doing a re-boxing exercise.

We have approximately 10,000 items in the collection.

KATIE: Wow.

ROO: 10,000?!

JAMES: The objects weren't packaged in conservation-grade boxes.

So, what we need to do... ..is give them a nice, proper home.

Very nice.

So how long, as humans, have we been producing leather?

Or is that too difficult to know?

I don't think we can really pinpoint an exact date.

It is the oldest material that man has been using for clothing and keeping himself warm.

ROO: Yeah.

Because here we've kind of got tools to allow us to do everything.

Back then, they had their bare hands.

They have found antlers and other animal bone tools dating back to about 100,000 years ago.

KATIE: Oh, wow.

VO: There would have once been tanneries to process animal skins in almost every town, removing the hair and the grease before soaking them in tannin, a compound derived from tree bark.

These photographs were taken in Northampton during the 19th century.

How big was the leather industry in Northamptonshire?

Well, let's say by about the 1870s, 40% of the men in the town were working in the leather industry.

And there's approximately 40 tanneries in the town.

KATIE: Right.

OK.

I can imagine at the time it was at the heart of the local economy.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, people actually made shoes in their own back yard.

I wish that was still happening now.

That would be so handy... VO: Northampton has, of course, been equally famous for footwear manufacture since the days of King John.

He was apparently so impressed with a pair that, in 1213, he declared it a shoe town, and by 1938 there were over 100,000 Northamptonians working in the industry.

Oh, this is very exciting.

So these... are 17th-century court shoes.

ROO: (GASPS) So these would have been... ..used in the court of Charles I, Charles II.

We know they're court shoes because of the red heel.

KATIE: Right, OK. ROO: So leather really can survive?

Yeah.

If you keep it dry, at a reasonable temperature, it will just last.

The oldest piece of leather we have are these Egyptian overpants.

KATIE: Oh, really?

Oh, my goodness, wow!

JAMES: So they date to 3,000 BC.

KATIE: They're not very modest, are they?!

JAMES: No, they're not!

These would have gone over the top of a white loincloth.

KATIE: Very good condition, considering the age, isn't it?

Yeah, well, it would have been buried underneath a very dry, sort of...arid landscape, really.

VO: Also in the collection are one or two celebrity items.

It looks like just any other wallet from 1687, but when you open it up, it belonged to a Mr Samuel Pepys.

ROO: (GASPS) That is a really rare thing.

JAMES: The wallet itself was a tourist gift.

KATIE: OK. ROO: Right!

JAMES: Samuel Pepys was in the navy, and he had friends in the navy, so he used to visit Constantinople quite regularly.

So, whether he bought it or whether it was a gift and he decided to have it personalized... Love that!

The minute you lifted the flap, that leather is so clean, like it was just made.

Yeah, if you keep it at the right temperature, it will last, and this is one reason why we are doing a conservation project with the boxes.

So if you'd like to give us a hand...

I would love to help, yeah!

What can I do?

So what we're going to do is I need you just to number the box for me.

OK, so what number would this box be?

JAMES: That would be box 1019.

KATIE: Oh, wow!

KATIE: My goodness.

OK. ROO: (LAUGHS) JAMES: What we'll be boxing is this 13th-century knife sheath.

Dates from the first half of the 1200s.

And we reckon it could belong to the wife of King Edward I, of Braveheart fame.

So Eleanor of Castile.

And we think that because there's a little crest, it's very faint, of a castle with three towers.

That was her family emblem.

ROO: That definitely seems far more civilized than putting it in with a box full of stuff.

JAMES: It does indeed, yes.

ROO: Hopefully, you're now preserving them for many centuries to come.

Do you know all of the 11,000 items off by heart?

ROO: I bet you do!

KATIE: (LAUGHS) VO: Item number 1019 - 13th-century knife sheath, which possibly once belonged to Eleanor of Castile - re-joins the approximately 11,000 other items in the collection.

Now, time to catch up with Adam and David - now in Buckinghamshire.

DAVID: Well, I suppose you've got great variety - acting, presenting... Are you still doing stuff behind the camera?

ADAM: Every now and then, if it sounds really interesting, but I'm trying to do acting, presenting, and public speaking, I do a lot of.

Oh, you do?

Yeah.

I've got a few TED Talks under my belt.

Oh, fantastic.

I was like, "Hi, my name's Adam Pearson."

"You might recognize me from the telly."

"I've got one of those faces."

And then everyone goes... (SIGHS WITH RELIEF) "Oh, he knows!

We can breathe now."

DAVID: How did you find acting?

I sort of fell into it.

I got an email from a charity, Changing Faces, who I campaign for, saying they'd had a casting agent be in touch and they want someone to maybe possibly be in a film.

"If you're interested, call this lady."

Right.

So one thing leads to another, and I wind up working with Scarlett Johansson.

Oh, how come these things never happen to me?

DAVID: This is ridiculous!

ADAM: (LAUGHS) I'm sorry, David.

I'm sorry!

VO: Those two still have one more shop to visit today, in the delightful market town of Olney... ..which, for getting on for 600 years, has hosted a pancake race.

Perhaps they'll find something with which to batter the opposition... Ha-ha!

DAVID: Here we are.

Fabulous!

VO: ..in The Antiques Centre at Olney.

Whoa!

Oh, wow.

ADAM: Here we go again!

DAVID: Shall we go and explore?

ADAM: Let's go.

Go find some winning stuff.

VO: Remember that, thanks to splurging quite a lot of cash earlier, Adam now has just £70 left to spend.

ADAM: Ah, cool stuff!

DAVID: Whoa.

Love a bit of bowling.

Yeah, my brother plays it.

He's very young to be playing bowls!

That's what I say!

Good for him!

Gets him out the house, gives him a hobby.

Have you played?

I've given it a little go.

Are you any good, though?

Mm... DAVID: Ah, I've heard... ADAM: Should we find out?

Do you want a bit of a competition?

Let's do it.

Looks like the shopping's on hold for a bit.

You can go first.

This reminds me of my cricketing days.

Look at this.

You never lose it, Adam.

You never lose it.

ADAM: Oh, that was awful.

It wasn't awful, Adam.

It was brilliant.

For me.

ADAM: Aww.

VO: Both as bad as each other.

What about antiques?

They certainly won't get themselves bought.

ADAM: Hmm.

VO: Aye-aye!

ADAM: David?

Da-da!

DAVID: It's a lacquered card case, and I love it!

I've always loved card games.

Your basics, like snap, blackjack, poker, Go Fish, rummy.

I used to play cribbage with my nan.

Did you?

Always got a deck of cards on me.

DAVID: Can you do a magic card trick?

ADAM: I can!

This is either going to be amazing or awful.

VO: They were shopping, but they seem to have got distracted again.

DAVID: OK, I'm watching all of your sleeves and everything.

ADAM: I'm going to show you this.

Don't say what it is, just... DAVID: OK. ADAM: Got it?

I'm going to absolutely read your mind.

Alright.

Go on.

You won't be able to.

VO: Quiet, please, everyone.

Four of diamonds.

DAVID: Um, yes.

ADAM: Get in!

DAVID: That is ridiculous!

ADAM: (LAUGHS) DAVID: You're a wizard!

I am.

(SHUSHES) Don't tell anyone.

VO: Very good.

Now back to the box.

DAVID: It's handmade, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

It's Japanese, without a doubt.

From around the 1920s, the art deco period.

But I love that box!

£12.50.

It is a complete no-brainer.

It's a done one, isn't it?

VO: Much more like it.

I think we're now focused.

Oh, little animals!

DAVID: Adam... ADAM: Oh!

DAVID: ..look at these fellas.

ADAM: Be still my beating heart!

DAVID: Aren't they gorgeous?

ADAM: They're so cute!

Now, they're lead, cold-painted.

But look, you've got two dogs.

You've got a pig, and you've got a pair of horses!

DAVID: Aren't they gorgeous?

ADAM: People love animals.

They are lovely, and all priced individually.

I'd dump the shepherd and I'd dump the sheep.

The dogs, the pig and the horses, really at the top of the pile when it comes to popularity.

ADAM: Yeah.

VO: All adding up to just £85.50.

DAVID: And I'd put them together, and sell them as a job lot.

Date-wise, how old are they, would you think?

ADAM: I'm going to say... ..World War II-era.

DAVID: Bang on!

ADAM: (CLAPS) Whoo!

Bang.

On.

I think we should do it.

I think we should start a farmyard.

DAVID: Let's do it!

VO: Time to talk to the man in charge.

DAVID: Hey.

ADAM: Hi, Nick.

NICK: Hi there.

ADAM: So, Nick... ADAM: ..we're in the market for your beautiful card case, and we've also decided we're going to have a smallholding.

NICK: Wonderful.

DAVID: What does it come to?

It comes to a very awkward £20.50.

I think £20 is absolutely fine.

Result!

That is an absolute dealio!

VO: Quite.

Leaving 50 for tomorrow.

Not that they have to worry about that just yet.

So how do we all feel about Day One, then?

KATIE: You know what?

It was an experience.

It was like nothing I'd ever done before.

But, actually, it's left me feeling quietly confident.

ROO: Really?

KATIE: Like, we can do this.

We are doing this.

Have I found a new hobby?

(GASPS) DAVID: Right, to finish the day off perfectly, over to you, what are we going to do?

Shall we go get some cocktails?

A good old fashioned, maybe a Negroni, and we'll see where the night takes us.

Wahey!

All we need is an art deco cocktail shaker.

Yes!

Hopefully we'll find one.

VO: Nighty night.

VO: Next day, our celebrities have much to catch up on.

So enlighten me, then.

How did the haggling go yesterday?

I love haggling.

How much do I want to pay?

Rock'n'roll.

So you were just blatant, upfront, then?

ADAM: Oh, yeah.

"Oh, hi, Claire."

"How are you?

How's the dog?"

"Why are you wasting words?"

"How much is it?"

"325."

"Oh, I want to pay 250."

VO: And he did, too - acquiring a railway timepiece, some toy animals, an enamel sign, a lacquered card case, and a Royal Worcester tea set, with, amazingly... ADAM: I'm pretty certain there's a genie in here.

VO: ..£50 leftover for whatever takes his fancy today.

While Katie was equally shop-tastic, picking up her own enamel sign, her own clock, a Satsuma vase, and some WMF goblets...

BOTH: Cheers!

ROO: Oh!

VO: ..which means that she still has £70 available.

Now, just time for a quick peek.

KATIE: Right.

ADAM: Wahey.

VO: See what each of them is up against.

KATIE: Oh, wow!

Tell me those animals are yours!

They are absolutely mine.

ADAM: Aren't they great?

KATIE: They are so cute!

ADAM: I know!

KATIE: They're made out of metal, are they?

ADAM: Lead, cold lead painted.

Alright, let me show you something that I got and see what you think.

Here we go.

Take one of these.

ADAM: I...love these!

KATIE: Cheers!

KATIE: Nice sound, right?

ADAM: Yes!

These are great!

KATIE: Officers' Mess, it says on it.

And they were from Germany, and they were, I think it was the RAF had them in their mess.

So we could have some wine together later.

ADAM: Absolutely.

KATIE: (CHUCKLES) What do you think, though, at auction?

All it takes just two people to fall in love with it.

That's true.

And then the battle's on!

This is absolutely beautiful.

ADAM: It's stunning!

I'm such a sucker for a box.

ADAM: It's a Japanese lacquer card case, with, like, mother-of-pearl imprint.

And, it even comes... ..with a couple of decks of cards.

KATIE: That's so cool!

So you were kind of drawn to this for personal reasons, as well as the fact that it would do well at auction, then?

Yeah, completely.

Coming into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be that guy."

I'm not going to be like, "Oh, I like that!

Let's get it."

You've crumbled and softened already.

ADAM: I know, I know!

Well, speaking of oriental stuff, take a look at this baby.

ADAM: Have you just bought things you want in your house?

Are you just going to have mates rock up and buy 'em for you?

Basically, I'm going to be the only one bidding at the auction.

Is that how you're going to win this thing?

KATIE: So now we've exchanged loot, is there anything that I got that you wish you had?

ADAM: I really like those goblets.

KATIE: Oh, you do?

OK. ADAM: I think they're cracking.

KATIE: Well, I have to say, I wish I got the farm animals!

ADAM: Great, aren't they?

KATIE: (LAUGHS) Alright, well, may the best hustler win!

Oh, don't worry, he will!

KATIE: Good luck!

ADAM: Good luck.

VO: It's all very evenly poised, with more shopping to come.

And their progress from Northampton to the south has now reached the town of Dunstable... ..on the Icknield Way, one of Great Britain's oldest roads, where Katie, now reunited with her expert, will get first dibs... ROO: Ah!

We are here.

KATIE: Wahey!

VO: ..at Mannuccis Antiques Emporium... ..established 1960.

Ooh, this is a treasure trove!

Looks amazing, doesn't it?

I'll go this way.

VO: Good idea.

Having already plumped for an eclectic selection... ..and got some very good deals...

Remind you of anything?

..those two still have £70 for their purchases today.

ROO: I think Katie is the perfect shopping partner, but my worry is we're so confident, we've got four great items in the bag, we can't start to relax because the shopping's not done yet.

But, so far, she's an absolute trooper.

KATIE: Roo, come and have a look at this.

ROO: What have you got?

Oh!

KATIE: Look!

It's the Russian nesting dolls.

ROO: I love them!

KATIE: You do?

Yeah, same!

The name in Russian, they're Matryoshka dolls.

KATIE: Oh, is that it?

OK. ROO: Matryoshka dolls.

KATIE: I've never seen a nesting doll with such a big final doll.

ROO: Neither have I. KATIE: I'm assuming there's a lot in here, do you think?

VO: The very first set was carved in Moscow in 1890.

ROO: I think usually there would be three or five or seven, but I'm hoping there's a whole big family of them.

KATIE: And the work that goes into them is quite impressive.

Do you know what I really like is the big eyelashes on them.

ROO: Yes.

KATIE: I love a big lash.

ROO: (LAUGHS) VO: Last one.

KATIE: Oh, no, no, no.

Look, look!

ROO: Oh, there's a tiny one!

I think that one opens up... KATIE: It's going smaller!

It's going smaller.

Look at its little face!

ROO: So that is eight?!

VO: I don't think she'll actually be buying those.

ROO: Play with your dolls, I'll get shopping!

BOTH: (LAUGH) VO: But while Kate reassembles, proprietor Richard is on hand for when required.

There's so much in here, isn't there?

I know!

You know, you could spend hours in here.

That's the thing!

It's quite deceiving from the outside.

Oh, I like these!

KATIE: These are pretty, aren't they?

ROO: Do you know what this is?

KATIE: No.

Go on.

ROO: This is Cloisonné.

KATIE: Never heard of that.

It's Japanese.

Now, we've already bought a Japanese ware, but very, very different style.

Right.

But do you know how this is made?

It's really skillful, actually.

ROO: This is basically enamel... KATIE: Right.

ROO: ..which is crushed glass, fired at a very high temperature.

Once that damages, it's almost impossible to repair.

So you have to look for condition.

But see these gold patterns?

KATIE: Yeah.

ROO: These are actually fine threads.

So there's a lot of work that's went into it.

Cloisonné's very collectable.

But the fact that it's a pair!

VO: £48 for those two.

I would say this is definitely 20th century.

But I love the colors!

ROO: It's very autumnal.

KATIE: Yeah.

It looks quite luxurious with all the gold as well.

ROO: Yeah!

KATIE: We've got 70 quid left, right?

And I feel like this is keeping within the standard of the stuff we already bought.

Exactly!

Let's give it a go.

ROO: Yeah?

Alright, come on, then.

VO: Over to Richard.

KATIE: Right, we think we've found something.

Ah, what have we got?

We come bearing vases.

Alright.

They've been sitting around a while.

So 48, er...

..I'll do £30.

There we are.

How's that?

Oh, look at me giving it away!

VO: I think that's a deal.

KATIE: Pleased with that!

ROO: Oh, yeah!

Another one down!

VO: With £40 still in hand.

ROO: Off we go!

VO: While we turn our gaze to rural Buckinghamshire, and the little red Spider's dusty progress... ..with Adam and David having made their way towards Chalfont St Peter and the Chiltern Open Air Museum, where they've come to find out about an industry that once boomed hereabouts... ADAM: Veronica, hey, how are you doing?

VO: ..from historian Veronica Maine... Would you like to come inside?

Absolutely.

VO: ..one of the few people still able to plait straw.

What is straw plaiting?

VERONICA: It's just a process of manipulating various ends of straws to make different types of pattern of plait.

And then it would be made up into hats, bags and baskets.

Could anyone straw plait?

As long as you had nimble fingers, and you could follow a pattern, you could make plait.

If they had the skills, it was accessible to everyone.

We really don't know when it started, but we do know that by the 1600s, in the Chilterns, it was a well-established industry.

There were literally tens of thousands of people earning their living by plaiting straw, and it gradually grew from that point, through the 1700s.

Economically, the money was really important for some families, wasn't it?

VERONICA: Yeah.

Because the only other occupations, really, were to go into service and be a servant, or to work on the land.

And of course agriculture wasn't well paid, so it could, for some, supplement the income, and for others, become their main income.

And the earnings were good.

VO: Then, at the turn of the 19th century, the local straw plaiters received a boost from a very unlikely source - Napoleon Bonaparte.

To produce the finest plait, they were using Italian straw, but because of the Napoleonic Wars, that couldn't come into the country.

Then, they had to really start thinking about growing their own straw.

And, of course, Chiltern's chalk lands, it was brilliant environment for growing the long old straw that they needed to make the straw plait.

That was one of the reasons why this area developed so quickly.

ADAM: So how long would something like this take to make?

How much straw is in here?

Oh...there's probably about 30 yards of plait in there, and I actually hand-stitched it all together and I like to think I've improved a little since that.

Improved a little?

I think that's fantastic.

It's a piece of art and sculpture, Veronica, I don't think you could get any bett... And look at that!

VERONICA: Oh!

DAVID: Hello, baby!

ADAM: Yeah.

DAVID: ..we'll go down a storm.

ADAM: We'll be great.

DAVID: Oh, yeah.

ADAM: Coolest kids in town.

DAVID: Yeah!

VO: Unfortunately for the straw plaiters, their good days were numbered when first, the mechanization of hat manufacture, and the cheap foreign imports that supplied it, and then, the use of man-made fibers destroyed their livelihood.

We couldn't come all this way and hear about straw plaiting and not give it a go.

Brilliant.

I am delighted to hear that.

Now, the first process you need to learn, as a straw plaiter, is how to split the straw.

And, if you'd like to pick that up, and pick up one of the straws as well, and then if you look at it and feel it, you'll feel that there's a sharp point on the front, and what you have to do is put the hollow stem of the straw over that point, and then, holding it absolutely straight... ..pull it through.

Now, grab what's come through, and pull in a straight line.

Hey!

So now your single piece of straw... ..is in five or six pieces.

That was really cool.

That was bizarrely therapeutic.

VO: I think it might have been the easy bit, though.

This is a plait that I've started, so I've literally got three pieces of whole straw.

So...I'll guide you through it.

You've got the three ends.

Now you've got two ends on one side.

ADAM: Mm-hm.

VERONICA: And you've got one end just by itself.

So you're going to take the outside straw of the two, you're going to... fold it over, into the center, so it cozies up alongside... the one that was by itself.

Yeah.

VO: Easy-peasy.

Now you've got two on the opposite side.

DAVID: Yeah.

VERONICA: Now you fold it back.

VO: How's is it looking, chaps?

I think mine's gone very wrong already.

ADAM: I also think mine has gone very wrong.

DAVID: Mine looks absolutely ridiculous!

Mine, yeah...

Mind you, yours looks worse!

ADAM: Yeah, it does.

It does.

I think I'll stick to acting.

I would!

Don't act as a straw plaiter.

Those roles are few and far between!

VO: Oh, dear.

DAVID: Just give me about two seconds, Adam, and I'm done.

Hmm.

I'm...nowhere near.

Check that out, baby.

ADAM: I'll graciously accept defeat.

Well, you know what?

It's probably more of a draw, isn't it?

Yeah, we'll call it a draw.

VO: Veronica?

VERONICA: I really have no comment!

VO: Ha-ha-ha!

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Buckinghamshire, the Mini is on the move.

How are you loving little Mabel, our Mini?

KATIE: Oh, my goodness!

Now I've got to grips with her, I feel like she's part of me.

I don't want to give her back!

ROO: She really suits you.

KATIE: Yeah?

Yeah.

I love the fact that we've kind of plucked you from your busy life into the world of antiques for a few days.

So my job is so varied.

I do love the variety, but my day definitely never involves a Mini, and driving through the countryside!

You must have had so many proud moments in your life, but what is the proudest?

If you can name one!

It's hard to pinpoint, but I think my standout moment would be when I set up my charity.

The goal was to build a rehab center, here in the UK.

Because I had to go abroad, for my rehab.

And we finally made that a reality a couple of years ago.

And we've got patients in our center now.

We're treating them.

So that feels like more of an impact and a legacy.

And I was so grateful to all the, sort of, public that have kept the charity going.

VO: Our campaigner and her chum are off to their last shop, in the Buckinghamshire village of Bourne End... ..down beside the River Thames... ..at La Maison, with just £40 left... ..which won't buy an awful lot of the delightful French antique furniture within.

Ha!

(MAKES WHOOSHING NOISE) Not bad!

VO: Not bad.

Although, happily, they do have a lot else in here besides.

Oh, I love these!

KATIE: I could tell you a story about these.

KATIE: OK. ROO: Really?!

So we grew up going to car- boot sales with my mum and dad, and they both started to collect two things.

One was hand-painted eggs, and one was these sweets.

I love that!

How many does she have?

She has like a sort of fruit-bowl size of them.

That's a good collection!

KATIE: Quite a few, yeah.

Are you going to tell me it's worth millions, then?

Well, these are a bargain price, they're £5 each.

KATIE: OK. ROO: These are actually Venetian.

KATIE: Oh, OK.

So these are Murano glass candies.

Now they're vintage - they're sort of '40s, '50s, '60s.

They're not antique, but the island of Murano is the heart of glass-making.

So Venice was known as having the best glass in the world.

So what they did was, if any glassmakers tried to leave the island, they would suffer the death penalty.

That's one hell of an NDA, isn't it?

ROO: That is!

Yeah.

VO: Talk about a glass ceiling!

Ha!

Thing is, I mean, we wouldn't buy these for auction because we'd really want the whole collection.

Do you know what?

That's a fun buy.

KATIE: Yeah.

ROO: Keep looking.

But I love those.

I'm glad you know your stuff!

KATIE: (LAUGHS) VO: Let's say no to those sweeties and catch up with Adam and David, elsewhere in the countryside.

DAVID: I know it's a hot day, but there's a lot of dust.

ADAM: There is.

It's very Wild West, isn't it?

DAVID: It is Wild West...

But we are in the south of England.

ADAM: We are.

We're like a modern-day Lone Ranger.

BOTH: (LAUGH) DAVID: It's wonderful.

It's very exciting!

Good car, good company.

Let's roll.

VO: Those two are hoping to round up an antique or two.

(IN AN AMERICAN ACCENT) Further along the Thames, at Windsor... (BACK TO OWN VOICE) ..famous for fat knots, brown soup and Chelsea forward, Peter Osgood... DAVID: Oh, a sweet little shop there!

ADAM: That is nice!

VO: ..Windsor Vintage awaits.

ADAM: OK... DAVID: What do you think?

There's some good stuff here!

VO: Oh, yes!

They've even got a Windsor chair.

Ha!

£50 left to spend, remember?

As in, two ponies.

DAVID: Oh!

Adam, let me introduce you to the kind of kit that James Bond would have owned in the 1950s!

ADAM: Nice.

DAVID: Traveling around with all his shirts and his super duper silk ties and his slacks, and his silk socks.

But the best bit's the Bakelite plastic knob.

Grab hold of that.

Three, two, one, pull!

DAVID: Hello.

ADAM: Oh, wow!

Yeah.

Shaving towels, sir?

Very cool.

VO: They love a gadget, those two.

You know what's even more magnificent than that?

What?

This was made by John Corby.

Now, John Corby were Windsor-based.

Ah!

Local.

Hence it's in good nick.

DAVID: Exactly.

It's just a funky thing.

75 quid.

Too rich for us, I'm afraid.

ADAM: Oh, well!

DAVID: Shall we dive back in?

ADAM: Let's dive back in.

DAVID: Come on, then.

VO: Good idea, chaps.

Now, what about events in Bourne End?

Do you know, it is always good to have a look outside.

KATIE: Yeah, we haven't done this!

ROO: What I love is you have a whole menagerie of animals.

But do you know something?

These do really well.

KATIE: Oh, look at this little fella!

ROO: Only a wee pup, isn't he?

This guy is £175, though.

What about gnomes?

Gnomes, surprisingly, there's a quirky market for.

Or lions.

You know, like, imagine a beautiful entranceway and a lion either side.

Yeah!

I mean, we just don't have that to play with.

ROO: We've spent £360.

KATIE: Cool.

OK. We've got £40 left, but the good thing is, we've bought five items.

KATIE: Yeah, that's true.

Are you saying it's OK for us to actually, at this stage, draw a line under it and go away with a little bit left in the float?

Yeah, we'll still have a good look around, make sure we haven't missed anything, but if we don't find anything, it's not the end of the world because we've got five solid, good items.

VO: Sounds like they might already be getting ready for the auction... ..which just leaves our other pairing in Windsor, where Mark's in charge should they clock anything!

DAVID: You really do love games.

ADAM: And this is quite nice.

This is written in French, so I'm assuming it's from France.

Do you speak French?

No, not at all.

No.

And I speak even less than that.

So I'm not sure what this or this are.

ADAM: But if we open it up... DAVID: Go on.

ADAM: ..and inside... Ah, classics!

We've got Chess and Backgammon.

5,000 years old, Backgammon, at least.

DAVID: No!

The second-oldest game known to man, behind Mahjong.

DAVID: Literally thousands of years.

ADAM: Yeah.

So, on the other side, to look at it, this looks like some kind of Trivial-Pursuit-esque game.

And I really like the old spiral design, where it's like the race to the middle.

And on the back here, I think this is Ludo.

VO: Patented in England in 1896, but based on a sixth-century Indian game.

I think that would work... ..quite funkily with the card case.

ADAM: Yeah, me too.

DAVID: A games compendium.

Indeed.

if you will.

OK, I think if it's cheap and cheerful, we'll bag it.

Yeah.

VO: Time to have a word.

ADAM: Mark, we really like the game board.

How much is it?

I can do it for £6, Adam.

Fantastic, thank you very much.

VO: Adam's House Of Games completes their shopping, with £44 left over.

So what's the mood in the Mini?

ROO: We're done?

KATIE: We're done!

We're done!

I feel, secretly, a little bit smug and quite excited about the auction.

Yes, me too.

We have bought items of beauty and no profit or loss is going to change that.

KATIE: Yeah.

And then, if you do get the outcome you want, is it inappropriate to whoop, cheer and kiss you?

Oh, yes, yes, yes!

Hug until I pop.

DAVID: I think we've got time for one last cocktail this evening.

Indeed, my friend, indeed.

Cocktail o'clock.

What're you drinking?

DAVID: I think you're the cocktail king.

You know more about cocktails than I do.

We'll sit down, we'll get a couple of Negronis... OK, let's do that and reminisce on our magnificent journey together.

DAVID: How's that?

ADAM: Sounds like a plan!

(HORN BEEPS) VO: Shuteye!

Not the name of a cocktail... yet.

VO: Auction viewing day has dawned, and our celebrities are on their way.

I'm weirdly nervous.

Yeah, I know what do you mean.

There's a lot at stake.

We've put a lot of time into this.

This shopping, you know.

My whole auction flies or dies on that clock.

Oh, yeah.

I've got a clock as well!

Did you spend 250 quid on your clock?

I did not, no!

(LAUGHS) There we go!

This is it now, like, we're really up against each other.

This is the most competitive part.

For me, the shopping was quite good fun.

Yeah.

KATIE: But here, this sort of decides.

Best man wins.

Don't worry, he will!

VO: This is going to be good.

After starting out in Northamptonshire and heading towards the Home Counties, our celebrities have now arrived at Bray, at the fabulous, Grade I-listed Monkey Island estate, where their experts await, hoping it might shortly be renamed Treasure Island!

ALL: Hello!

ROO: How are you?

KATIE: Good!

ROO: Looking beautiful... DAVID: Great to see you.

KATIE: As are you both.

DAVID: Fabulous, fabulous.

KATIE: Thank you.

DAVID: Cool, Mr Cool!

OTHERS: (MURMUR IN AGREEMENT) VO: Meanwhile, their lots have been dispatched towards Harrogate... ..where, at the Harrogate Auction Centre, they'll be selling in the room, on the net and on the phone.

Auctioneer George Allen is the man in charge.

Last chance at 160... VO: Katie parted with £360 for her five auction lots.

I like the Victorian marble clock, dated 1897, and I think we're going to get a good deal on this one.

VO: Adam spent a tiny bit less, 356, also on five lots.

The lacquered box with the cards...

Very, very good.

Love it.

And the board game, which is really fantastic anyway, a collectable piece.

VO: Promising, eh?

Now, are we all sitting comfortably?

DAVID: Shall we give it a go?

ROO: Let's do this!

Let's not hold off any longer!

VO: Using tech, of course.

Starting with Adam's shiny Royal Worcester.

KATIE: Bit jealous of this one.

DAVID: Are you?!

KATIE: Well, cuz I'm a magpie and it's very blingy.

DAVID: Yes!

It's got glam written all over it, hasn't it?

It has.

It just jumped out when we were there.

I feel like I want to bid for it if no one... ROO: No!

DAVID: Yeah!

Can we see £50 to start me?

30 anywhere?

GEORGE: 20.

DAVID: Oh, it's getting worse!

KATIE: It's going down!

DAVID: I know!

KATIE: Didn't think that happened!

10 only bid.

ADAM: Oh, my... No!

DAVID: Adam!

15, the bid in the room at 15.

GEORGE: 17.

DAVID: Oh!

20, anywhere?

At 17, the bid.

It could have been worse, Adam.

It could.

It could have been a fiver.

VO: Oh, well, it's not everyone's cup of tea.

These things happen.

ADAM: They do.

DAVID: It's just what happens.

I think someone's got an absolute bargain.

VO: True.

Now for one of Katie's, her star buy.

We've got an enamel sign as well, but it's a bit better, isn't it?

ADAM: It is.

ROO: Is it?

ADAM: It's a lot better.

Do we wish them luck, Adam?

ROO: Yes.

ADAM: Yeah, go on, then.

Yeah!

Good man.

GEORGE: £50 to start me?

DAVID: Ooh.

ALL: Ooh!

KATIE: You're joking... No, people might just be playing it cool.

GEORGE: £30, the bid in the room.

At 30.

£40.

50 bid.

55 bid.

Oh, here we go, here we go.

95 bid.

This is better.

Getting that kind of tennis batting backwards and forwards is lovely.

140 bid.

I'm starting to get little flutters!

I know!

150.

160 bid.

We're doing, yeah.

170.

ROO: Come on, please.

GEORGE: All done?

Come on, give us another fiver!

GEORGE: At 170... DAVID: The irony!

Exactly what you paid.

ADAM: Bang on.

ROO: Absolutely.

KATIE: Yeah...

So, is that good or not?

KATIE: Not really.

ROO: No, it was...

I would have loved to have seen it do over £200.

VO: Which would not have been unreasonable.

We haven't walked away with a loss, have we?

That's a positive.

You broke even on your big item, whereas we've still got our big item to come.

VO: But in the meanwhile, here's their sign.

Also fairly rusty.

The whole family drink Corona.

The wear and tear is covering the main body of your sign, David!

Listen, that's what antiques are all about, Roo.

£50 to start me on that one?

GEORGE: 50 bid.

DAVID: Yes!

60.

Five.

70.

DAVID: Yes, Adam!

GEORGE: 75, the bid.

GEORGE: 80 bid.

DAVID: Go on!

ROO: Maybe size doesn't matter?

GEORGE: 90 bid.

DAVID: Go on!

GEORGE: £100.

DAVID: Doubled!

ADAM: Doubled!

KATIE: Stop!

ROO: I know... You can put the hammer down now.

110.

ROO: No!

GEORGE: Last chance.

At 110... DAVID: Well done, Adam!

ADAM: Whoo!

KATIE: Good!

ROO: Well done.

VO: Yes, well done.

Adam has his first profit.

I feel like you deserved that after the tea set.

Yeah.

You needed that appreciation.

KATIE: (LAUGHS) ADAM: Indeed!

VO: Katie's WMF goblets now.

Will we be toasting those as well?

If these make less than £100, my little heart will break.

I love them that much!

50 bid.

DAVID: Oh, you're in.

ADAM: You're in.

KATIE: Straight away.

GEORGE: 55 anywhere on that one?

DAVID: Oh!

GEORGE: £60?

KATIE: Oh, we're going!

ROO: We need to.

Oh, it's going up.

GEORGE: 75.

ROO: Yes!

DAVID: Oh!

GEORGE: 80.

KATIE: I feel like I'm being... ROO: Back in with 80!

I'm lifted up, I'm dropped down, I'm lifting up!

At £80, only bid.

I was waiting for a last-minute one to come in!

KATIE: That's... DAVID: Still alright.

ROO: £80.

VO: Definitely worth a cheers.

Katie's off and running as well.

I keep forgetting to breathe!

I need to breathe!

DAVID: Yeah, don't faint!

ADAM: (LAUGHS) It's a fun nervousness, though.

It is.

It is!

KATIE: A bit of adrenaline as well, I think.

VO: Adam's animals are next.

Shoe box lid not included.

I reckon we triple our money on these.

DAVID: Oh, triple!

ROO: (LAUGHS) No, seriously, they're so sentimental.

They remind me of my childhood and they're actually just adorable.

They are very cute.

£50 to start me?

DAVID: Go on... ADAM: Go on.

GEORGE: £30 anywhere?

DAVID: More.

GEORGE: 20?

10 anywhere?

GEORGE: Well, well, well.

DAVID: Uh-oh, Adam!

Five only bid.

Seven bid.

10 bid.

ROO: Yes!

You've made profit.

Have you all done?

DAVID: (SHOUTS) No!

GEORGE: Finished, sure?

All done at 10?

DAVID: Well, there you go.

KATIE: It's an insult!

ADAM: (GROANS) DAVID: Welcome to our world!

ROO: They were beautiful.

VO: Ah, well, they seemed OK about it.

KATIE: Adam, are you wounded?

ADAM: A little bit.

He's gone quiet!

It's the most quiet I've ever seen him!

I, like... the pig alone was adorable!

ROO: Aw!

VO: More Katie now, her pair of cloisonné vases.

I'd like to see a profit on this.

40 to 50.

It's got to be.

Adam, do you like them?

Yeah.

40 to 50 all day long.

I'd pay 50 quid for them.

Let's see, then, shall we?

(LAUGHS) GEORGE: £50 to start me?

ROO: Come on, someone.

GEORGE: 20?

ROO: Oh!

GEORGE: This is for the pair, not for one!

20 bid.

25 bid.

Someone's bid, someone's bid.

Here we go.

Any advance on 30?

DAVID: Ooh.

GEORGE: 35 bid.

45, the bid.

50 bid.

At £50... That's OK.

It's a good margin.

Are you happy with that?

Yeah.

Look, again... No, she isn't, I can tell!

VO: More steady profits, Katie.

Moving on.

We paid £30 for those, so, £50, it hasn't blow me away, but, no, I'm not...unhappy.

VO: Time for another Adam selection.

He loves his games!

I think this is going to go well for you.

I hope so.

I've got a feeling about this, personally.

10 bid.

15 bid.

20 bid.

GEORGE: 25?

ROO: Excellent!

GEORGE: £20, the bid.

KATIE: You're past the 18.

30 bid.

£30, the bid.

ADAM: One more.

Double bubble.

DAVID: Yeah.

Are you sure?

35 bid.

BOTH: Yes!

ROO: Oh!

At 35, the bid...

I'll take it.

ROO: You've gone with something really different and intriguing.

VO: Yes, a good choice, and yet more winnings!

Has that been the best result so far?

That and the sign.

DAVID: The sign, yeah.

KATIE: Oh, yeah.

VO: Katie's second vase lot, the Satsuma.

If Adam came round mine for tea, I bet you'd be like, "What's the story behind that?"

It's a statement piece.

30?

30 bid.

40 bid.

45.

OK, it's jumped up in tens.

DAVID: It's a good jump.

GEORGE: £50, the bid.

It's rapid.

GEORGE: Any more?

KATIE: I'm sweating!

Put the hammer down, put the hammer down.

ROO: One more, one more... GEORGE: 55 only bid.

60 bid.

DAVID: Ugh!

ADAM: No!

You two jinxed it.

The gavel's up at £65... ADAM: Aw... DAVID: Oh, bad luck.

Shame.

You win some, you lose some.

VO: And remember what they also say about winning battles versus wars.

We thought it was going to do really well... We were hoping it was... We had high hopes but, alas.

I'm feeling the heartbreak.

Can you feel... KATIE: They look too happy!

ROO: Way too happy.

VO: And finally, the time piece.

First up is Adam's very nice but rather expensive dial timepiece.

My grandfather on my mother's side owned a clock shop.

It's just sort of in the Pearson DNA.

And I was always like, if you're going to come on a show like Antiques Road Trip, you take a risk.

£100 to start me?

ADAM: Oh, no.

GEORGE: 100 anywhere?

It'll creep up.

GEORGE: 50 anywhere?

ADAM: Oh, no!

KATIE: But this has been the pattern... ROO: Yes.

GEORGE: 50, 60, bid.

80 bid.

90 bid, £90 only.

It needs to get to more than 100!

ADAM: No!

No!

ROO: No... GEORGE: £100.

110 bid.

120, the bid.

GEORGE: Last chance.

ADAM: No... GEORGE: At £120... ROO: Oh... KATIE: Oh, guys... DAVID: But we loved it!

But it's so nice!

It's going... ADAM: Aw... DAVID: (FAKES SOBBING) I'm so sorry, you two.

It was a beautiful thing.

VO: This is where I say that someone has got themselves a very nice timepiece for not too much money.

I'm just trying to think of a way of blaming Adam.

How can I do that?

DAVID: We both loved it.

ADAM: We both loved it.

VO: Katie's clock now.

Also gorgeous, but it cost a lot less.

GEORGE: 80 bid, on the phone.

DAVID: On the phone!

Oh, my goodness!

This is wicked!

GEORGE: In the room at 90.

100 on the phone.

KATIE: Oh, I'm glad!

DAVID: Oh, that is amazing.

That is shocking and amazing.

GEORGE: Yeah?

100 on the phone.

KATIE: Oh!

110 bid.

120.

130, the bid.

KATIE: Tapped into something... ADAM: Well done!

GEORGE: 140 bid.

ADAM: 140.

150, back in the room.

KATIE: It just keeps going.

ADAM: (GROANS) 160 on the telephone.

Someone on the telephone knows their stuff.

They really want it.

GEORGE: Last chance at 160... DAVID: Oh, we have to give you a round of applause.

Oh, thank you!

That was quadruple the money.

That was beautiful.

VO: Marvelous.

Well done, Katie and Roo.

KATIE: Team effort.

ROO: Team effort.

ROO: We work well together, don't we?

Same with you two as well.

You wanted to go all in, big.

You either win big or lose big.

Exactly.

And you were right, we lost big!

ADAM: (LAUGHS) Yeah.

ROO: Oh, no!

VO: Ah, well.

Adam began with £400 and, after auction costs, made a bit of a loss.

So he's ended up with £283.44.

While Katie, who also started out with 400, made - also after costs - a very tidy profit.

So she wins!

With £470.50.

Those profits go to Children In Need.

DAVID: Happy memories, eh?

ROO: The kind that makes you feel warm and fuzzy after.

We always feel warm and fuzzy!

ROO & DAVID: (LAUGH) DAVID: Bye, guys.

ROO: Bye!

Bye.

VO: But what about our celebrities?

KATIE: Oh, my goodness.

I can't believe it!

I've got to admit, I did doubt myself at some points in there.

I was sweating!

I...don't want to talk about it.

KATIE: (LAUGHS) Oh, come on!

You've got to be happy for me!

I'll take you out for dinner!

Just shut up and drive.

VO: It's alright!

He's only acting.

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