(CAR HORN) VOICEOVER (VO): The nation's favorite celebrities...

It's not worth a tenner.

VO: ..paired up with an expert... You're learning.

VO: ..and a classic car.

This is very exciting, isn't it?

It is.

VO: Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.

Got a nice ring to it.

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

Come on.

VO: But it's no easy ride.

RICHARD: Brake.

DOMINIC: I can't!

VO: Who will find a hidden gem?

I hope I don't live to regret this.

VO: Take the biggest risk?

We've definitely got a problem.

VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?

You'd never catch me buying anything like that.

VO: There will be worthy winners... (THEY CHEER) VO: ..and valiant losers.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

VO: Put your pedal to the metal.

VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah.

Dig away, baby.

VO: Salutations, Somerset... Look who's here.

Titans of film, stage and screen and good chums.

Stephanie Beacham and Amanda Barrie.

AMANDA: Hey, Stephy, we're back together on an adventure.

It's very nice to see you again.

VO: We're delighted to have you as our guests.

With a career spanning six decades, Stephanie has a glittering array of stellar acting credits to her name.

From acting alongside Marlon Brando, to cat fights in renowned TV dramas.

We're still alive, Stephanie.

This is nearly true.

And what I really like is that we're going to do antiques, which means in every shop there will probably be something older than me.

VO: The swirl of showbiz all started from the age of just three for Amanda Barrie.

Since then, she's gathered a huge number of acting credits.

Starring in everything from iconic British comedy films, to gritty prison dramas.

AMANDA: Can I sell you at the auction?

Stephanie, if I find you in a shop, can I say, "Look at this antique that I've found.

"I would like to put it in auction"?

Stop it!

VO: And to suit our acting doyennes, we have the 1970 Jaguar 420G.

Chauffeur driven by Terry.

Terry, what is this wood?

It's walnut.

AMANDA: Walnut, always walnut.

STEPHANIE (SB): Beautiful.

VO: And no seat belts in the back because they weren't mandatory back then.

I know people will expect me to be able to be good at this.

SB: But you're instinctive.

AMANDA: No, but... And the same as I am.

We will see something we like and there we go.

Because I've done it and I've actually had a stall.

I even had a stall going during Coronation Street, which is awful.

Concentrate on your job, Amanda.

And I also did Camden Lock when it first opened.

I've also done fairs.

VO: Blimey, a lady of many talents, Amanda.

Oh, my heart does flutter at an auction.

Ooh, it flutters a few times, dear, from what I've heard.

And not just at auction.

VO: Cheeky!

We shall cha-cha our way to an auction in Cirencester.

But first we're in the Somerset village of Norton Fitzwarren... ..at this delightful establishment where Serhat Ahmet and Tim Medhurst are poised and ready.

So we're looking forward to meeting our celebs, aren't we?

We are, and I can't wait to meet Stephanie.

I spent my childhood watching Stephanie.

TIM: Did you?

SERHAT: I did, I did.

She was all over the TV at that time.

I'm a lot older than you, don't forget.

I don't believe it.

You don't look a year younger than me.

VO: Oh, that's nice.

Tim's the gavel wielder with the taste for coins.

And Serhat, as well as having a stare that would outdo Paddington, he's the go-to guy for porcelain.

I have watched Amanda as Cleopatra in Carry On.

SERHAT: Oh, I have not.

TIM: Which is great.

SERHAT: Ah.

OK. TIM: Iconic.

So, I'm very excited to meet her.

VO: OK, boys, hang on to your asps, because here comes the Jag.

Hey, Steph, we're here.

SB: Thanks, Terry.

Thanks, Terry... (GASPS) SB: Come on, missus.

AMANDA: I'm excited.

VO: Bye bye, Terry.

Lovely bowtie.

A hot spot for curios and collectibles, Taunton Antiques Collective has, as the name suggests, a number of antique shops operating from this lovely locale.

Our glitzy ladies are armed with £400 each.

Let's go.

SB: Serhat.

Stephanie!

It's a pleasure.

Absolutely.

So, what are you looking at?

I mean, you've caught me in my element.

This is me, ceramics, porcelain.

I know.

I know.

You're famous for it.

But I wanna know what you like.

I like doll's houses.

SERHAT: Right?

Tiny things and silly things and then...beautiful things.

So this has got a lot in it, this shop.

It's a huge place.

VO: While Stephanie gets set to find some antiques to plunder... TIM: Ah, hello.

How are you?

I've been waiting for you.

AMANDA: Hello, it's so nice to meet you.

TIM: Lovely to meet you.

AMANDA: And you.

TIM: Are you looking forward to antique hunting?

I am desperately looking forward to antique hunting.

My little heart is going like that at this moment.

TIM: Is it?

AMANDA: Yeah.

And I've heard that you've got a bit of a background with the old antiques?

I have, a big background.

Yeah?

AMANDA: I always buy broken things.

TIM: Oh, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

As long as you like it, especially as long as you like it.

Shall we get stuck in and start looking?

Oh, please.

Go on... TIM: I'm glad that you're excited about it.

VO: Now we're all acquainted, let's see what we can find.

Have a look at this... Look what I've found!

OK, so that is articulated.

SERHAT: They're German.

SB: Yes.

SERHAT: So German factories made these in the 19th century and especially for dolls that would have been finished off in England or in France, so often what happened, the head... Little French hat.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So the head would have been made in Germany.

And in this case, obviously, the arms and the legs too.

VO: Bisque porcelain headed dolls are so called because of the flesh-like unglazed porcelain, all the rage in the late 19th century.

And then it would have gone to France to be dressed.

Yes.

Because why wouldn't you get your clothes in Paris?

Well I would, darling, often.

VO: Well, I wouldn't expect anything else, Stephanie.

And I think these have sat in someone's cupboard.

They are immaculate and... SB: They are.

SERHAT: ..this is the original clothing.

I know you think I'm overexcited about this.

It's because I am.

They are, they are wonderful.

I am so serious.

SB: What price have we got on this?

SERHAT: (WHISPERS) I can't believe it, that's for the pair.

SB: Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Come on.

You don't mess about, do you?

Nah.

SB: This is Stephanie Beacham, Serhat.

She knows exactly where she's at.

SB: They're perfect.

OK. SERHAT: They're good quality.

SERHAT: Shall I take care of the babies?

SB: Yes.

You take care of the babies.

Now, where are we going?

VO: Meanwhile, what of the lovely Amanda?

TIM: The old ball and chain?

VO: Oh, here we go.

AMANDA: Oh, darling, look at that one!

Oh, look at that.

TIM: Do you reckon I can get it on?

AMANDA: Please... (CHUCKLES) Get stuck on.

VO: Timothy?

AMANDA: OK... TIM: (EXHALES) Oh... AMANDA: Hey, do you know what?

VO: Watch the rug, Timbo.

TIM: I can't get it off now.

AMANDA: (WHEEZES) Excuse me, I'm looking for an antique tin opener to get him out of this.

VO: Where did we get him from?

Do you reckon this is quite cool though?

AMANDA: I think...

Yes!

I'm afraid I do.

TIM: I must try to get it off.

AMANDA: I actually like that rather a lot.

That is my kind of thing.

TIM: I wonder if it was used as a prison, sort of... AMANDA: Well, it must have been, darling.

It wasn't used as a household object... TIM: I was wondering...maybe it would have been theater... AMANDA: Oh, no, darling, even actors...come on.

It'd have been made of polystyrene, wouldn't it?

AMANDA: Actors would not be able to drag that around with them!

VO: Yeah, come off it, Timbo.

The ball and chain was used in the 19th century with some weighing up to 36 pounds.

It meant escape was virtually impossible.

It's unpriced.

I'm out of breath as well now.

Because you tried to get... You wanted to walk around in it.

TIM: Yeah.

AMANDA: Draw attention... AMANDA: ..to yourself.

TIM: I know, show off a bit.

AMANDA: I can see what it's going to be like.

VO: You tell him, Amanda.

Now, after all that lugging about with the ball and chain, Amanda's having a breather.

Ah... (CHUCKLES) Here she... Are we having fun?

Yes, of course I am, darling.

I'm in my world here.

SB: I've just been enjoying it so much.

Oh, good.

So it means you're going to do an antique stall with me, are you, darling, in the future?

No.

No, no, no.

I am hopeless.

Financially, I couldn't ask anybody for money.

I can't bear it.

Oh, you would if you bought it!

VO: You do know that you're buying antiques to sell, Stephanie?

Right, let's get back to work, ladies.

Serhat, come.

VO: Keep up, Serhat.

SB: I don't know if you'll be keen on it, because I don't think it's even an antique.

Well...it's this.

That's too expensive.

SERHAT: OK, you've decided.

I don't think that that's even old.

SERHAT: No, it's not.

But I don't think it's bad.

SERHAT: OK.

I like it.

SERHAT: So what would you do with that, if it was in your garden?

I would put it on and then I would hang planters from it.

SERHAT: OK. And I could grow greenery up it.

And it makes a perfectly normal fence.

SERHAT: Shall we get this down?

I want to see it now... Go on then, go on.

SERHAT: ..because you are excited about it.

Well, it's just that I do know that these things sell, but maybe they only sell in garden centers.

SERHAT: So you're right, there's no age to it at all, really.

SB: (SOFTLY) Yeah...

But it's good condition.

It's perfectly attractive.

You don't always find them.

Could be painted white.

VO: The earliest surviving garden plan, dating from around 1400 BC, featured a garden trellis, making this nifty construct a sensationally enduring design.

It's priced at £59.

SB: It would have to be a better price... SERHAT: OK. SB: ..because that's too expensive.

SERHAT: OK. SB: Do you think?

I'm talking as if I know anything about this stuff.

SERHAT: Well, the amazing thing is, Stephanie, you're turning someone that is into antiques... ..into someone that's going to like something that's new.

(LAUGHS) SB: ..do you think that is NEW new?

SERHAT: I do.

SB: If he'd give it to me for 35, I'll get it.

SB: But I guess I'd pay 40.

SERHAT: OK. SB: Am I wrong?

SERHAT: Should we park it for now... Park it for now.

SERHAT: ..and just see what else there might be?

Because there might be something you love... More original and better and proper?

Yeah.

VO: While they do that, let's find our new chumsies, Amanda and Tim.

TIM: I used to have one of these tracing slates.

AMANDA: I've never seen one.

TIM: You'd put the picture you wanted to draw inside, and then you could draw... AMANDA: ..round it.

And then take the picture out.

Well, it's sort of teaching a child to be a forger.

Give it a Van Gogh, stick it in.

He goes, "Oh, look at those sunflowers, Daddy!"

Daddy rushes off down to, y'know, along to Christie's saying "Look at this."

He goes "My God, you cracked it."

TIM: You know what?

It's a lot more basic than I remember it when I was a kid as well.

Everything's much more realistic, isn't it?

Well, when you were a kid?

Yeah.

Yes, things have changed a little.

I just went, oh, I thought he was the expert.

Sorry!

VO: Yes, but he is such a darling, isn't he, Amanda?

Onwards we go.

TIM: (TUNEFULLY) Dee dee dee dee.

These are interesting, these stamps.

This one here... AMANDA: That one is... TIM: It says here 1840.

That's the Penny Black.

AMANDA: It's the Penny Black.

TIM: Yeah.

TIM: They're an iconic stamp... AMANDA: I know.

..cuz they were the first ever sticky postage stamp in the world, and they were issued in 1840.

Yeah, I knew about Penny Blacks.

TIM: Yes, isn't it nice?

It's got the portrait of Queen Victoria and it's been used.

So it's got the stamp on it as well.

Well, they're very collectable, Penny Blacks.

It will come down to things like plate numbers and also the margins around the edge and how they've been cut, whether they've been used or not.

This one, it's not in the best of condition, but... Well, you wouldn't be, darling, after 1840.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

VO: Indeed.

In the 1830s, the British postal system was costly and complex.

The Penny Black Revolution meant for the first time, people could send a letter weighing up to half an ounce for the flat rate of one penny, regardless of the distance traveled.

I've never left anywhere just carrying a stamp.

Haven't you?

Well, there's a first time for everything.

We can ask how much they are.

There's no price on them.

But if they're around... AMANDA: What?

Yeah, what?

TIM: ..if we can get them around 30 or under, then I think that'd be worth taking to auction cuz people do collect those Penny Blacks.

AMANDA: Yes.

TIM: So, yeah.

OK. Tim, I'm with you, baby.

Alright.

VO: Along with the unpriced ball and chain, let's see what dealer Gary can do on the price.

I'm here to ask you, what is the very best you can do?

Well, if you buy the stamp and I throw the ball and chain in £40...

Throw the ball and chain?!

Oh!

Don't throw it hard!

£40 for the two.

That sounds like a very generous deal, doesn't it?

GARY: That OK?

TIM: Yeah.

TIM: Thank you very much, Gary.

We'll shake your hand on that.

Thank you very much, Amanda.

AMANDA: Thank you very much.

That wasn't too painful.

VO: That breaks down to 15 for the ball and chain and 25 for the Penny Black, leaving lovely Amanda with £360.

Now, where are we?

Oh, there they are.

SERHAT: Something I've spied.

I think you might like this.

I'm hoping you're going to like this... SB: Hello!

VO: Sausages!

That comes off...which is great because the mouth is open too... SB: Aww!

Little person, what do you do?

SERHAT: I think it's...it's a pouring vessel.

Probably... For my bath oil?

SERHAT: It can be for your bath oil.

It could be for...what else?

Some sort of elixir?

SB: Yeah!

SERHAT: (LAUGHS) SB: Something for a long... SERHAT: Longevity.

VO: You don't need it, Stephanie.

Back to business, please.

SB: That is absolutely enchanting.

SERHAT: Tell me why you like it.

I love it.

SB: It's kitsch as old Harry... SERHAT: (LAUGHS) SB: ..and it's...and it's...but it's beautifully made, and it's also good-looking.

And I tell you what, he's lost his nail varnish this side.

SERHAT: He has.

SB: He's got a broken paw.

Well, we can always use that as a little bit of a negotiating tool.

I would have thought so.

VO: Price, please, Stephanie.

SB: OK, so he is "Meissen porcelain Bolognese... ..dog figurine, 195 quid."

SERHAT: OK.

So... Trop cher, cherie.

He's actually...spot on, French.

SB: Yeah.

Imitating Meissen, so he's not Meissen.

SB: Oh, really?

Yeah, it's a Meissen model, originally... SB: What's the Bolognese thing?

That's the breed of dog.

So these little dogs are Bolognese dogs.

So, originally, this would have been made in about 1750, 1755 by the Meissen factory.

Yes.

SERHAT: But, as was popular in the 19th century, other manufacturers copied archives.

SB: OK.

So in this case, it's made in Paris by the Samson factory, dates from about 1880 to 1900.

And I think it's wonderful because what they have done that Meissen didn't do was add a stopper... SB: (LAUGHS) ..and turn it into a novelty.

I know.

Which I think is fab, and I think that's going to speak to the market at auction.

SB: You're very googly eyed.

I think he's absolutely heavenly.

SERHAT: I think it's... SB: Should we do this?

SERHAT: ..so much character.

I think we should definitely take it to ask about a price.

I think he's very sweet.

I think he's going to come and snuggle.

Don't drop the lid.

Come on, then.

VO: Alright, Sergeant Major.

Along with a pair of German bisque porcelain dolls at £20, the garden trellis at 59, and the Edme Samson porcelain Bolognese terrier at 195, we have a total of £274, yikes!

Stand by, Mark.

Absolute best on him will be 170.

Oh.

He just said 150 cuz he knows his vet bills are very, very high.

Go on, 150, OK.

Wonderful.

Now, what about that trellis?

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Absolute, absolute 35.

I can't do any more than that.

Do you mind if I get it?

I know it's not an antique.

It's up to you... You love it.

MARK: Deal?

SB: Yes!

SERHAT: Oh!

SB: There we go!

SERHAT: He jumped in, he made your mind up.

SB: Yes, let's do it.

VO: And the pair of German bisque porcelain dolls.

These people are so kitsch.

MARK: The detailing's beautiful.

SERHAT: Aw!

And they articulate properly, so I'm very happy.

Excellent, that's what we like.

SB: OK, let's get our monies out.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, that's very kind of you.

SERHAT: Happy?

SB: Puppy!

Oh, no.

Woof, woof.

VO: That's my job.

Blimey, Stephanie, that totals 205 smackers.

20 for the pair of German bisque dolls, 35 for the trellis, and 150 for the Edme Samson porcelain doggy, leaving Stephanie with £195.

Way to go!

Snug as a bug.

SB: (CLAPS) SERHAT: Right...on to the next one.

VO: As Terry zooms off into the distance, guess who has snuck in to look where Stephanie and Serhat have just been?

TIM: Oh, look at you sitting down.

Are you having a rest?

I'm sitting in a red chair with red glasses on, looking as if I'm very comfortable.

Like Charles I on his throne.

It is, it is.

It is Carolean-ish.

It's quite small, isn't it, the chair?

Yes... (CHUCKLES) TIM: That's actually a really nice chair, isn't it?

And it is sort of based on a 17th century design.

AMANDA: It is.

TIM: And...

I like the pattern that's on here.

TIM: That is something that's all the rage at the moment is sort of old leather with a nice patina that's actually still together in fairly good condition.

I mean, what's the price?

It's up at 175.

Oh, well...

I don't think that's bad, is it?

For a nice, solid 19th century chair.

AMANDA: No, it isn't.

No.

With nice leather.

And one might be able to crush them down a little bit with... TIM: Shall we have a look at its legs?

AMANDA: Oh, yes... VO: He's strong.

TIM: Look at that lovely frame.

Oh, no, I do agree with you, actually.

Beautiful oak frame.

You've won me over on the chair, yes.

TIM: You could try and get that down nearer the hundred, maybe.

Let's go and do it, shall we?

OK, let's do it.

Come on.

VO: This pair are easily distracted.

We shall leave this shopping locale yet.

Right, Mark, another set of customers for you.

I'm here to do... (LAUGHS) I'm here to do business with you.

Hello, I'm Amanda.

MARK: Nice to meet you too.

Nice to meet you too.

Darling... Hello, Mark.

The thing is, we love your chair.

MARK: It is lovely.

We love it enormously, and we would probably like to have it.

But we have to have it for much less money than it was before.

VO: Crumbs.

What is the very best you could do for us?

Absolute best, very, very best, would be 150.

I think that's a generous reduction, don't you, Amanda?

Tim...get your money out.

TIM: Oh, pay Mark.

VO: Don't mess with the Barrie.

Oh, I'll go first.

Come on.

Come on, bring the chair!

VO: Top-notch buying, Amanda.

That chunky buy leaves you now with £210.

TIM: Come on, ball and chain.

AMANDA: I'm coming.

Come along, ball and chain, come along!

TIM: Come on.

AMANDA: I'm coming!

VO: Tim, what are you thinking of?

You should have clamped the ball and chain to your ankle, we know it fits.

Ha!

Meanwhile, where is the heavenly Stephanie?

So I've got half my money still, so my imagining is that I would buy a little cheap sentimental, and we need to buy something practical, or potentially practical... Yeah.

..for the chunk of the money.

And I think we should blow the whole lot, spend it all.

Yes.

What else would we do?

No point buying something and just having money left in our pockets.

I think jeopardy is the way to go.

I wouldn't consider it!

That IS against my DNA.

No, no, no.

VO: The "Hey, big spenders" have made it to the Somerset town of Bridgwater.

Electric lightbulbs were used at Bridgwater Carnival in 1903.

Illuminating the town today is Stephanie.

SERHAT: It is.

OK, I'm going to dash round and let you out.

Lovely, thank you.

VO: We have trained you well, Serhat.

SB: Thank you.

SERHAT: Here we are!

Well, are you excited about your next shop?

SB: I feel that I ought to do something that's definitely going to make some money.

Well, we need to make money.

VO: Let's get stuck in.

Isn't it delightful in here?

A sea of antiques aplenty, Stephanie.

There is now £195 in your purse.

SERHAT: Look at it.

It's a safe.

SB: OK!

SERHAT: What's inside?

SB: OK. SB: Well, that is truly not going anywhere near anything that I'm interested in.

VO: Right.

SERHAT: So, look, we've got the maker's names here, "Phillips & Sons Safes".

SB: But it's genuinely grotty.

Isn't it?

I love that, though.

Erm, no.

VO: Read the room, Serhat.

SERHAT: And look, you can put your jewelry in there.

No, no.

VO: Stephanie definitely doesn't like it, Serhat - at all.

You're definitely not backwards and coming forward... ..so let's keep looking... SERHAT: ..shall we?

SB: OK, OK. VO: While they stay away from hulking big safes, let's find Amanda.

Amanda and Timothy have been let loose in Taunton.

John, Paul, George and Ringo played here twice in 1963.

Ah, all you need is love when Amanda and Tim are around, here they come.

TIM: Look at this.

AMANDA: Oh, looky, looky, looky.

TIM: After you.

AMANDA: Oh, we're in.

Oh, ho, ho...!

VO: Antiques On High's a mix of carefully curated and "get your sleeves rolled up and dig in".

Which our pair are doing.

Blimey, they ain't half noisy.

TIM: Shall we swap places?

Yes, I think if you...I'll swap places with you.

If you pull that thing away you can get in the cupboard.

I've lost my shoe.

You've lost your shoe.

Your shoe's come off.

I got it, I got it, I got it, I got my shoe.

VO: You both need to calm down.

AMANDA: I love rummage.

I really love rummaging.

This is my idea of complete heaven.

Truly, it really is, just everywhere, looking, and there's nobody here, so you can have a look in places that you're not supposed to.

(HUMS) (WHISPERS) Don't watch, it's secret!

VO: Amanda, you are simply adorable.

Back to Bridgewater.

Hi, Terry.

(WHISTLES) SERHAT: What is it, what is it?

Well, I don't know.

It's kind of outrageous, but I think I really rather love it.

SERHAT: Do you know what the funniest thing is?

I think I've walked past this about three times, and you know, cuz it's just there... SB: Yes.

SERHAT: ..you don't see it.

No, but look, look, it's just...it's a Bacchus feast!

VO: I think she likes it.

SERHAT: Well, look, shall I tell you a bit about it?

Because it's got a bit of a history in that this is Italian 1950s.

This is a maiolica glaze, so it's a tin glaze, something that was developed in Italy in the 16th century.

SB: OK.

So it's true to itself in that it's Italian and they've picked out a technique that's been going on for hundreds of years.

SERHAT: So, the... SB: OK, let's find out.

SERHAT: ..the technique is, you know, it's been updated.

This dripping it's a bit Pop Art-y in a way.

SB: Yes.

Am I going to be able to afford it, then?

SERHAT: I don't know... SB: Uh-oh.

SERHAT: ..how much it is.

SERHAT: Yes, there's a bit of damage, and I saw some round the back here on the back of the pedestal.

OK...

But if it's made correctly...

Yes, it's in two parts so that's good.

SB: (WHISPERS) I like it.

And I like these... SERHAT: Little ram heads?

SB: These naughty little animals.

SERHAT: Yeah...

I love it.

I love it, and I'm glad you do.

I do, I do!

VO: It's not priced.

Stephanie has just under 200 smackers.

Stand by, Martin.

Where is he?

(CALLS OUT) Martin?

Ah, here he is.

Well, we've seen that outrageousness.

And I think I've fallen in love with it.

MARTIN: Have you now?

SB: So...yes.

So what's...?

The price on that one is £85.

I do love it, but I think I'm going to make a firm and final offer of 65.

I will accept the offer of £65, but... SB: Thank you.

..I do need to keep the plant.

You need...?

What's its name?

Bert.

SB: Bert.

You can keep Bert, we'll have to find Roberta to put in it.

VO: Oh, I like Bert.

Here's the money.

SERHAT: Thank you, Martin.

I'm thrilled, really.

Good.

I'm glad you like it!

(CHUCKLES) Do you expect me to carry that out now?

SB: Yes.

VO: But of course, Serhat.

VO: £130 is the sum now remaining in your dwindling kitty.

You are so strong and wonderful.

Well, it's not heavy at all.

It's absolutely enormously heavy.

VO: Ah, he's showing off.

Now, dare we go back to Taunton?

TIM: Are you enjoying shopping?

AMANDA: (WHISPERS) Oh, darling, I love it.

You love it, don't you?

AMANDA: You can just leave me here just forever.

TIM: What I'd love to ask you... What?

..is what was it like being Cleopatra?

Ha-ha!

Oh, well, now when I look at it, I think, "Why was I crying every night when I went home?"

cuz I thought I was so ugly.

No, really?

Honest to God, yeah.

Wow!

It's absolutely true, because... Cuz the reason being, you see, it's when things are in fashion, the people that were employed... ..they were all these blondes with huge blonde hair, and buxom.

And there was me, darling.

I got a complete complex about it and I was going, "They're all laughing at me because I'm so ugly."

Cuz you don't see that side of it...

I'm the ugliest person... No.

..you know, you just see beautiful Cleopatra.

AMANDA: And also, nobody thought when we were doing Carry On films, you know, we didn't men...we didn't tell people we were... (UNDER HER BREATH) ..in a Carry On film.

But it wasn't my start-off, I'd been going for ages then.

Yeah, yeah.

Cuz I started at three.

That's why I'm so tired now.

TIM: Shall we now go and play a bit of Carry On Shopping?

AMANDA: Oh!

Carry On Rooting.

TIM: Carry On...?

AMANDA: Rooting.

TIM: Rooting.

Carry On Rooting!

TIM: Where shall we go next?

AMANDA: Wherever you're going, I'll follow you, you're the expert.

VO: I could listen to you all day, Amanda, but we best get looking.

There are just over £200 left.

Ooh!

Tim?

TIM: What have you got there?

Well, the sort of thing that I always fall in love with.

TIM: I always think with metal ware like this, it can surprise you, one - sometimes how new it can be, or how early.

Because some of this eastern metal ware... AMANDA: Look at that.

TIM: Yeah, they've put a new bolt in.

AMANDA: Yeah.

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if this was maybe even 18th century or earlier.

Can you imagine what it would have looked like new?

I think it would have looked stunning, cuz I'd imagine the outside was tinned, so it would have looked silver.

It even does now, you're right.

TIM: So how much is it?

AMANDA: It is £110.

Hey, that's not bad, isn't it?

AMANDA: I don't know.

TIM: I think you'd need to try and get that down a fair bit.

VO: Let's go get at 'em, Amanda.

Let's chat with dealer, Vincent.

We'll do the pot for 45, OK?

Does that put a smile on your face?

Right, come on, Timothy, pay the money.

TIM: Pay him?

OK.

There we are.

VINCENT: Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Great work!

Amanda now has £165.

What fun we're all having!

The shopping is now finito for today.

I am so bad at asking people for money.

It's my curse.

I can't do it.

AMANDA: Can't do it?

I just have to see big eyes looking at me, and I'll give it away.

VO: Nighty night.

This is really pretty, isn't it?

Oh, darling, Somerset's beautiful.

It is lovely to be with you again.

Oh, darling, it's lovely to be with you.

It's good, isn't it?

VO: It's all so perfectly darling, darlings.

I must say, I could spend a lot of my life doing this.

SB: Yes.

AMANDA: It's been wonderful.

SB: We could, couldn't we?

AMANDA: Yes.

Just sitting in the back of Terry's car.

AMANDA: No work.

SB: Nattering away.

VO: You're making quite the impression, Terry.

SB: Got some money left, and is that the same with you?

I think so, yes.

I lost count, darling.

I was living in this magical world of, "Oh, look, look, look."

"Oh, Tim, look, Tim.

Tim, look.

Look, look!"

VO: What?

Where?

Oh!

She means the other Tim!

Yeah.

Listen, I could do it every day of my life.

It would never, never to me feel like work, it would just be, "Oh, what a joy."

VO: Love it.

SB: I'm longing to see what you've got.

And I am longing to see what you have got.

There's a couple of things that I'm confident about.

There's a couple of things that I know are a bit whoopsie.

VO: No whoopsies allowed.

Amanda and Tim have been having a simply wondrous time.

They scooped up four lots, spending 235 smackers.

The sort of thing that I always fall in love with.

VO: Stephanie and Serhat have been unstoppable with their buying prowess.

They've also snapped up four lots, totaling £270.

That is absolutely enchanting.

VO: Let's have a gander at yesterday's heavenly spoils.

Tim and Serhat have joined the ladies.

SB: Ta-da!

AMANDA: Oh!

SB: (LAUGHS) Just a little light piece.

Yes, it's very subtle.

Yes.

SB: I just felt... AMANDA: Yeah!

SB: Yes!

I love the ram's heads, they're so... AMANDA: I love the ram's heads.

SB: 65.

AMANDA: Oh, really?

Pounds.

Oh, well, that's what you paid for that?

SERHAT: Yeah.

TIM: That's very good.

SB: I adore that chair!

Oh, him, he checked... TIM: It's lovely... SB: It's absolutely heavenly.

AMANDA: It's sweet as a bug.

TIM: I love the wear on the leather.

SERHAT: Yeah.

TIM: All nice and patinated... AMANDA: Beautifully.

TIM: ..very nice.

I love it because it looks... it looks right, doesn't it?

SB: Yes.

TIM: Yeah, it does.

SB: Yes, it does.

We were quite pleased with the price as well, £150.

SB: My dollies, my dollies their articulation is very good.

AMANDA: I hate them!

SB: And... What did they cost, the little dollies?

20 quid.

Oh, right, well, you can't lose more than £20, then.

SB: Tenner each.

I love that.

AMANDA: Do you?

SB: I think that's gorgeous.

SERHAT: That's my favorite thing that you've bought.

Is it?

I think that might go bonkers.

Oh, I wish it would.

TIM: Promising, isn't it?

SERHAT: That could go bonkers.

VO: With spoils duly noted, we hit the road once more.

The boys will meet up with the gals laters.

Well, the whole thing is pretty lovely, isn't it?

Look.

Can you please get a better day in England?

VO: It is beautiful, isn't it?

Amanda has been dropped off in the village of Sandford in Somerset to meet up with Tim.

Let's board the fruity express to find out about the railway line that once transported wagons of berries to London and beyond.

It soon earned the moniker the Strawberry Line because of the huge volume it would carry on board.

The strawberry biz was once so lucrative here that it was dubbed "red gold".

Lois Brenchley, founder of the Strawberry Line Recreation Route, is waiting to tell Amanda just how important this magical railway line continues to be.

LOIS & AMANDA: Mwah!

Come and have a look at our lovely station... AMANDA: Oh, I would love to!

LOIS: Yeah.

VO: Sandford Station was completed by East Somerset Railway in 1869 and ran from Yatton through Cheddar to Witham Junction.

So you're going to tell me all about your lovely station.

Hello, ladies, welcome aboard.

VO: Ah-ha, we've found Tim, Amanda.

Cor, he suits that hat.

By the mid 1870s, the wealthy Great Western Railway had snapped up this popular line.

AMANDA: I want to know, why was it called the Strawberry Line?

LOIS: Because the three villages up the line from here... ..Axbridge, Cheddar and Draycott, had this wonderful soil on the edge of the Mendips, yeah?

AMANDA: Yeah.

And it grew strawberries.

Erm, and it was a big business for them.

So every little station along here, of which there are nine, and then the two terminuses, all contributed to that situation and got something back.

As they passed through the villages, the people could smell the strawberries.

AMANDA: Aw!

So it was a lovely name for a strawberry line.

And the trains were called the Strawberry Specials.

VO: In the height of strawberry-growing season, over 100 wagons would leave, bulging with red gold for nationwide distribution.

Everything was delightful until the huge swing of Dr Beeching's axe in 1963.

LOIS: Well, it was the bombshell dropped by the Beeching report.

AMANDA: Oh, the Beeching report, yeah.

And of course, the railways weren't making any money, and there was...

They hadn't been maintained during the war.

AMANDA: No.

And so in 1963, thousands of miles of track and hundreds of stations all closed at the same time.

This was one of them.

VO: For over a century, the line was well-used until its closure in 1965.

Today, not only does it stand as a monument to British railway heritage, it lives on as a popular cycling and walking route.

While Amanda has a good nosy round, let's find Stephanie and Serhat.

They're in the village of Draycott in Cheddar, home to a third-generation family of strawberry growers.

The Strawberry Line was a vital link between the agricultural heartland and the urban centers of the country.

It was a game-changer for local strawberry farmers.

Chris Seager continues the family strawberry biz that's been on the go for decades.

SB: Where did they come from originally?

Originally, I think they come from France.

VO: The strawberry has danced a transatlantic tango, with origins in France and North and South America.

How long has this farm, this strawberry farm, been here?

Well, my gran set it up in the '60s.

How wonderful.

But it wasn't big like this?

No, no, no.

It was only small.

She had a few in her back garden and she sold them up on the side of the road.

You put these on a lorry now, do you?

On my van, yeah, and I take them to Bristol, to a fruit market.

To Bristol.

My grandad used to have a wheelbarrow.

He used to load them on the wheelbarrow and push them just down the bottom of the village and put them on the train.

VO: Proving the Strawberry Line was crucial for helping strawberry growers like Granny and Grandad Seager make their business as profitable as possible.

During strawberry season, Chris and his team pick about 100 trays a day.

Fill my punnet, please Chris.

There's a big one there, look at the size of that one!

SB: It's huge!

SERHAT: Ooh... We'll have a good look round in here and find some more.

SERHAT: Give me one of those.

SB: No!

CHRIS: (CHUCKLES) VO: Back in Sandford, Amanda's getting to work.

TIM: Hello.

Could I have a ticket, please?

AMANDA: I think I can give you one.

TIM: Thank you.

AMANDA: Right... ..where do you want to go to?

I'd like to go to, erm, an antique shop.

Do you know, it just happens to be that this one is for the nearest antique shop.

Perfect, thank you very much.

AMANDA: My pleasure.

TIM: See you later.

Anything.

Bye!

VO: Now, it is such a glorious day, how about some strawbs?

Amanda and Tim have made it to join their chums for a taste test.

This looks delish!

Is it true that strawberries are the only fruit that have their seed on the outside?

AMANDA: What else?

SB: Gooseberries?

Sweetcorn?

Oh, no, that's not a fruit, is it?

SB: (LAUGHS) SERHAT: Do you know how many seeds?

My expert has spoken again!

VO: Yeah, he's some guy.

Well, come on, let's eat as much as we can before we go.

This is the... One, two, three, and...

Thank you, darling.

We have to stop eating.

No, don't... SERHAT: We do, we do.

We've got to go shopping.

VO: Indeed.

The enchanting Strawberry Line remains as a nod to our British railway heritage and now acts as a green corridor in an urbanized landscape, enhancing not only wildlife but encouraging sustainable modes of transport...like cycling and walking.

Now I can see Amanda and Tim.

Think you could have had a completely different career, you could have gone down the antique path.

Yep.

But if I was really to be honest...

..I was a dancer for many, many years, a long time, and the utter freedom and lack of responsibility you got being in the chorus, that's a bit like this shopping's been.

That's easy.

TIM: Well, I have to say, all I think of is Cleopatra.

You're my Egyptian beauty.

Oh, thank you, darling.

But you see, I stayed in the milk too long and I've gone all wrinkled and crump...and crumpled.

You look wonderful.

VO: Absolutely!

Amanda and Tim have now reached the smallest town in Somerset, Axbridge.

King John granted the town a royal charter in the 13th century.

It even had its own mint!

Alright, here we go, Amanda.

Here we go, here we go.

Are you ready to rumble?

Ready to rum, I'm ready to rum.

Ready to rum-ble.

VO: Yee-ha!

Someone looking to make a mint is our unstoppable Amanda.

TIM: Let's get in, then.

AMANDA: I'm there!

I'll be there before you.

Get out of my way!

TIM: This looks great.

AMANDA: (MUTTERS) I'm coming in right now.

VO: She's a lady on a mission!

This sunny medieval square is home to Ripley Antiques and Vintage.

Inside, what a treat lies before us.

A veritable bounty of goodies awaits.

Let's get delving.

Amanda has 165 smackers.

Let's see what she finds.

TIM: What do you think?

AMANDA: What?

Is that a bit of me?

Is that...?

Oh, my darling.

VO: Oh, help!

TIM: Do you have a big wardrobe?

AMANDA: Oh, don't!

You open a cupboard and things go, "Wear me!

Wear me!

You haven't worn me... ..well then get rid of me, let somebody else wear me."

They reach out and they go, "Amanda..." ..you remember me?

You used to like me!

Pick me, let me go out today!"

They go, "alright," and go back in the cupboards.

Then you take your favorite jumper and your...

The tatty old shirt that I had on, go out in that.

VO: While they talk threads, let's leave them to rummage for some actual antiques.

Where are Stephanie and Serhat, by the way?

They've made it to Coxley, deep in the heart of the Somerset countryside.

Set over five and a half acres, Wells Reclamation is a family biz that has been on the go for nearly 40 years.

Look at this place!

I know, it's immense!

I know, do you think you could manage that?

We're not buying that.

VO: He's a bit big.

SB: And I could stay out here till I got lost at midnight.

SERHAT: (LAUGHS) After you.

VO: Let's get inside and have a looky-look.

So much here, you've just got to get your eye in.

VO: This place is massive!

Stephanie has £130 remaining.

SERHAT: Well, after this morning... No.

Come on.

Amanda...Amanda...Amanda's chair is simply fabulous.

That is ordinaire.

SERHAT: It is a bit.

SB: Yeah, it's ordinaire.

Goodbye, goodbye...

Thank you very much.

Have a very nice life.

SERHAT: But you don't like the fleur-de-lis?

I think that it's tired.

SERHAT: It's tired.

SB: It's tired... SERHAT: We're tired.

SB: No, I'm not tired.

SERHAT: (LAUGHS) SB: But that's tired.

SERHAT: No, I meant, we're tired.

We might want to sit in this chair.

Have you tried it?

(LAUGHS) I could give you a little massage.

A little neck rub... Oh well, I wouldn't say no to that.

SERHAT: (LAUGHS) SB: Ooh!

Ooh!

Madam, would you like to buy the chair?

SB: No.

SERHAT: Oh.

SERHAT: It didn't work, then.

SB: No.

VO: Let's leave them to find a showstopper.

Meanwhile, in Axbridge... Tim, Tim.

TIM: Oh, these are nice.

AMANDA: Aren't they just!

I think they're very now.

TIM: They're kind of in, aren't they?

They would be...they would fit most places.

TIM: Comfortable, aren't they?

AMANDA: Yeah.

TIM: They're bouncy.

So they're sort of chromium-plated, and they've got nice leather, the original leather, by the looks of it.

By the...oh, crikey.

TIM: I reckon...they've got some good age.

I reckon they might be '60s, mightn't they?

'60s or '70s, do you think?

That was only yesterday as far as I'm concerned, yes!

They're vintage.

Yes.

I'm more than vintage, my dear.

TIM: You're barely vintage.

AMANDA: No, but the... VO: Charmer!

If you go out and buy these new...

I mean, imagine the cost of a chromium-plated, nice, thick leather stool in a branded shop?

Well, it would be ridiculous.

A lot of money.

How much are these?

You've got a price ticket there.

AMANDA: Oh, sorry.

I'll tell you in a minute.

Just hang on.

I can't see.

Does that say £100?

AMANDA: Yeah, each.

TIM: Oh, each.

AMANDA: Sorry!

VO: Yeah, and you've only got £165!

I thought we were quids in then.

I thought, we'd done it.

Cracked it.

We've done it, we've beaten them.

I think this is the best... TIM: I agree.

I think... AMANDA: ..possible.

TIM: ..I think if you walk to this end of the shop, they jump out at you, don't they?

AMANDA: Well, they do.

TIM: They look very stylish.

No, they do, they've got... And they've got the nice patina you're looking for as well.

Yes!

They've got them, but they're very nice quality.

TIM: They are.

AMANDA: D'you think we could call him in?

AMANDA: Are we calling him in?

TIM: Yes... (CALLS OUT) Jules?

VO: As if by magic... TIM: Ah, hello!

JULES: Hello.

Lovely to see you again.

Nice to see you again.

Brilliant.

Amanda, how are you?

AMANDA: I'm alright, my darling.

JULES: Good, good, good.

We found this lovely pair of stools.

JULES: Well, they are a bit of a standout piece, aren't they?

Yeah.

TIM: The only problem we've got... You see, he hasn't got any money.

You couldn't do 130, could you?

And I will come and do a bit of briar waxing.

I could sit in the shop if you're short of people.

I'm going to hold you to that.

Will you?

I'll do it!

I'll do it, I promise you.

TIM: Jules, thank you very much.

JULES: Thank you so much.

TIM: Thanks very much.

JULES: Thank you.

TIM: Right, let's get the money out, shall we?

AMANDA: Give it to the man before he changes his mind!

Thank you very much...

Thank you very much.

No, thank you so much, darling.

JULES: Thank you.

AMANDA: Really, thank you.

VO: Brilliant deal, Amanda.

That nifty buy leaves you with just £35.

TIM: There we are.

Last shop done, Amanda, well done!

High five that one.

Right... AMANDA: OK. TIM: ..let's get going.

TIM: Let me get the door for you.

AMANDA: Oh, thank you, you're such a gentleman!

VO: Alright, Tezza?

TIM: Here we are.

AMANDA: (GLEEFULLY) Hee, hee... AMANDA: Thank you, darling.

Thank you so much.

Thank you!

VO: That's Amanda and Tim all shopped up.

How about Stephanie and Serhat?

SERHAT: Ah-ha...!

SB: Something?

SERHAT: Stephanie, look at this.

SB: OK... What do you think that is?

I'm taking my hat off for this.

Erm, It is a...several tables.

SERHAT: Well, look at this.

SERHAT: We spin it... SB: OK, OK... Yep.

SERHAT: ..storage in here.

SB: Yes.

SERHAT: We flip it.

Fun thing about this card table... SB: Yes.

SERHAT: ..games table... SB: Is that...?

SERHAT: It does this.

SB: Yes.

SERHAT: OK. SERHAT: So, now I've seen hundreds of card tables, but I've never seen the shelves underneath.

Put one of these shelves away.

Just put that one away, and then think of this against a wall.

SERHAT: So if I'm the wall.

SB: You're the wall.

And that could be really quite an interesting display situation.

Yes.

VO: Card tables became most popular from the Regency period.

The Industrial Revolution ensured the new middle class had not only a parlor but more leisure time to enjoy games.

SERHAT: Originally, these shelves would have been used to put your counter chips on, or maybe your scotch or whatever your...

Yes.

SERHAT: ..drink of preference would be, whilst you're playing a game.

But who does that these days?

Probably not many people.

SB: Not many people.

SERHAT: But, yet... SB: I think we're going to give it a try, but we're going to have to get it for 130.

SERHAT: How much...?

SB: And the pricing is...?

SERHAT: Well, it might be less than 130.

SB: No, it's 195 at the moment.

SERHAT: 195.

SB: Let's go see.

SERHAT: I mean... SB: Let's go see.

SERHAT: ..what's there to lose?

SB: Nothing.

It's our last bit of money, our last shop.

SERHAT: I think you can do it.

SB: Let's do it, let's do it.

VO: We have £130 remaining.

There's Emma to chat dosh with.

SB: We've found this little table.

Yeah.

We think it's darling, it does all the flexible things.

What might your very best price be?

Erm, I could do it for 150.

How about 130?

As it's you, I can.

VO: Nicely done, Stephanie.

SB: 130?

EMMA: Yeah.

SB: Fabulous.

Thank you very much.

Let me give you the whole of my money.

EMMA: Lovely.

SB: There you go.

EMMA: Thank you.

We're done!

We've got everything we need.

Well, we've got no more money, so that's it.

SERHAT: Shall I carry this?

SB: Come on, strong man.

SB: I'm making very good use of his iron... SERHAT: (LAUGHS) You are!

SB: Thanks, Emma, bye!

EMMA: Thank you.

SERHAT: Bye, Emma.

VO: Thanks, Emma.

Every single penny blown.

Well done, Stephanie!

SERHAT: Well, look, I'm really happy with this, I hope you are, I hope you are.

SB: I hope so.

For a children's tea party, you know, it's heavenly.

VO: That's it, the shopping is over.

The girls are reunited.

We've done it, darling, we've done it.

Next stop, auction.

I know.

We've got all our things.

That was heavenly, wasn't it?

Absolutely.

VO: Time for some shuteye.

VO: Can you believe it?

Auction day is here.

Fizzing with excitement, we have Stephanie and Amanda.

How lovely.

Maybe somebody could give us a spin-off, Two Old Ladies.

SB: Two Old Ladies.

I don't mean Two Old Ladies.

SB: Two Old Ladies.

AMANDA: I am the old lady.

SB: That's what we'll call it.

AMANDA: Not you, darling.

Two old antiques.

People could just take us from place to place.

They could buy us food... VO: I'd watch it.

After a good old charge around Somerset, the gang have gathered in Cirencester.

Home to The Cotswold Auction Company, where Tim and Serhat eagerly await.

SERHAT: Here you are.

SB: Hi!

TIM: How are we?

Are you OK?

SB: Hi!

AMANDA: I'm excited!

SERHAT: Hello!

TIM: How are you, my dear?

SERHAT: Hello.

TIM: Lovely to see you.

SERHAT: How are you?

How are you?

Let's get on with it, get on with it... SERHAT: Are you ready to go in?

AMANDA: Yeah!

Come on!

SERHAT: Come on, then, ladies first.

TIM: After you, go on.

SERHAT: No, you.

TIM: Are you sure?

OK. SERHAT: Yeah.

VO: Make up your minds.

It's chocka with bidders in the room, absent commission bidders and even more online across the globe.

The lady in command is Lindsey Braune.

The maiden bid then takes it, at 40... VO: Amanda was a tour de force, spending £365 on five lovely lots.

Any tickle your fancy, Lindsey?

We all really like this late-Victorian red leather armchair.

I think it's probably an apprentice piece because it's unusually small but a bit big for a child's chair.

It's really well done, and we think there should be quite a bit of interest in this.

VO: Stephanie blasted the £400 budget to kingdom come on five lots.

Oh, this is one of my favorite lots.

They just don't come up very often.

It's a jug in the shape of a dog, so it is quite unusual and I'll be very interested to see what it brings.

VO: Look at them go!

Ha-ha!

Take your seats, please.

SERHAT: (SIGHS) Have you both...you've been to an auction before... ..haven't you?

AMANDA & SB: Yes!

TIM: Stephanie, have you?

We're all old hats at it now.

Are you excited?

We know what happens.

Hee, hee hee.

VO: Beautifully demonstrated.

Stephanie's majolica jardiniere is first to tempt the bidders.

Would it be something that Sable Colby would have in her home?

No, never!

LINDSEY: 25, 28... At 28.

SERHAT: Gosh.

..30 on the saleroom.

35 on Easy... At 35, looking for over 40.

At 35.

It's climbing.

She's working hard.

She's...

Anyone in the room, or I'm selling online at 35...?

Oh, no...!

Agh...!

Sorry.

VO: You're so supportive, Amanda.

Just a small loss, Stephanie.

Nothing personal, but, you know, who wants a big lump of majolica?

VO: Amanda... ..you're next with the 19th century tinned jug.

And they had mended it.

Anything, I feel, that they bothered to mend... Mmm.

..must have had a bit of value.

SERHAT: It must.

SB: OK, OK it's coming up now.

SERHAT: Is it coming up now?

LINDSEY: At 20.

It's fast asleep, darling, it IS a sleeper.

LINDSEY: At 22.

TIM: There's some bids.

LINDSEY: 25 now, at 25.

AMANDA: Oh!

SERHAT: Is that in the room?

I'm quite upset about that.

LINDSEY: ..looking for eight.

Are you waving to someone or bidding?

MAN: (MUTTERS) LINDSEY: You ARE bidding.

LINDSEY: Good.

At 28 in the room... Just like to be sure.

At 28 in the room, bid quickly online.

It's a beautiful jug!

At 30.

Well, it didn't fly, it did sleep, it WAS a sleeper.

35?

No?

Absolutely sure?

OK...

I love that jug.

I'd have taken it home.

(GAVEL) (WAILS) Wah!

VO: Ah, unexpected result.

But someone got a bargain.

SERHAT: Hmm.

TIM: It was worth a go.

SERHAT: It was.

It was worth taking the punt.

VO: Always.

Next, we have Stephanie's Samson porcelain doggy.

Look there, look.

It's going, "Take me home with you!"

It's got this cute...it's got this cute little quiff.

Start me at 50 on this one.

LINDSEY: £50 to start?

SERHAT: Come on.

Straight in 80.

85, 90.

SERHAT: Ooh!

LINDSEY: At 90, at £90.

SERHAT: But we need to go... LINDSEY: Looking for 90.

SERHAT: ..a lot more.

LINDSEY: 95, at 95.

Yes, come on.

All quiet in the room.

I will sell if we're all done at 95... Oh, I can't see it, I can't look.

(GROANS) VO: Oh, disappointing, Stephanie.

Little Woofles didn't raise the "woof".

AMANDA: It was near... SB: (HOWLS) Ow!

Ow!

Ow...

It was near, darling.

Near-ish.

SB: (WOOFS SADLY) VO: We have Amanda's Victorian Penny Black stamp.

Beautifully cradled.

TIM: It's the one, isn't it?

SB: Yes.

TIM: If you think of a childhood stamp album, the one thing you're looking for is that... A Penny Black, yeah.

£20?

20 bid, thank you.

At 20.

It's got to be more than that.

At £20, bid's in the room.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

At £20.

All quiet online.

Are we all done?

At 20 and selling... ..all be ashamed of yourselves.

Oh... VO: It wasn't the "first-class" result we hoped for.

It's nice to fail with a bit of class and dignity, that's what I like.

SERHAT: Where WAS that?

AMANDA: I dunno.

VO: Stephanie's garden trellis now.

Fingers crossed.

SB: I think it's gonna do well.

LINDSEY: £20, I've 20 here.

Well, we've got a bid.

LINDSEY: 20.

At 20, looking for two.

At 22.

Yes, you know you want it.

LINDSEY: 25.

28 in the room.

SERHAT: Come on, come on.

LINDSEY: 28.

Looking for 30.

Are we all done and finished?

LINDSEY: At £28... SERHAT: No.

Surely not.

LINDSEY: ..I'm selling...

I would have bought it for 28.

VO: What a steal, eh?

Plenty more to go.

But it's a nice...it's such a nice thing.

Can you two stop doing whatever you're doing?

AMANDA: Sorry!

TIM: It was really... SERHAT: Cuz it's really obvious.

AMANDA: Sorry.

Oh.

VO: You tell 'em, Serhat.

Now, blimey, spectacular portering.

We have Amanda's ball and chain.

I can just imagine this being in a dingy Victorian cell, can't you?

AMANDA: Yes... TIM: Someone chucked... ..in a ball and chain for nicking some veg off a market stall.

Oh, they got half a loaf, darling.

TIM: Yeah.

SERHAT: 'Alf a loaf?

At £30.

You're not going to find another one for a while.

LINDSEY: 35, 40 online.

AMANDA: Go on, go on.

LINDSEY: At £40, bid's online at 40.

45.

At 45, 50.

AMANDA: Go on.

TIM: (GASPS) It's going up!

You'll never see another one.

Here we go.

60.

At 60.

65.

Still going up.

LINDSEY: 70.

At 70.

AMANDA: 70.

It's slowly climbing, isn't it?

LINDSEY: At 70.

In the room 75.

They're all still thinking about it.

80.

Oh, it's still going.

£80.

SERHAT: 80 quid!

LINDSEY: At 80.

We're all done and finished at 80... (GAVEL) SERHAT: Aw!

Well done, you two!

TIM: Well done.

VO: You smashed it, Amanda!

Excellent result.

Everybody...everybody should have one, darling.

We should all have a ball and chain, to keep them all in check.

That's what I say!

VO: Come on, Stephanie, it's your folding games table next.

What would you do with it today?

SB: Plants.

SERHAT: ..could do your plants.

TIM: That would look great.

SB: Plant, plants, plants.

Laptop... At 30, 35.

30?

35, 40?

40, 45 here.

It's going up!

55 on commission.

We just need some momentum, come on.

LINDSEY: The internet's out.

60 in the room.

60, yes!

Are we all done?

At £60 and selling... Oh my God...

I don't think I'm going to go into antiques.

VO: It's a lovely thing.

Just the perils of auction.

You win some, you lose some.

SB: Yes.

SERHAT: I mean... ..we just don't know.

If we knew what we were going to make money on, we'd buy those things.

TIM: It'd be very easy, wouldn't it?

VO: Amanda, your turn now with the pair of mid-century chairs.

VO: I like 'em, stylish.

SERHAT: Beautiful leather.

As soon as we walked in, didn't we?

TIM: Mm.

They were there.

AMANDA: They just went, "Ba!"

TIM: Yeah.

LINDSEY: Start me at 50... ..on these.

50.

160, 170.

Thought we'd have a lot of interest.

SERHAT: Amazing!

At 170.

At 170, looking for 180.

180.

TIM: Oh, another bid.

AMANDA: Go on, my son.

We're all done and finished... SB: Well done!

TIM: Happy with that... TIM: ..aren't you?

AMANDA: Yep.

VO: You are good at this, Amanda, that's a chunky profit.

Could celebrate with a cocktail before we leave.

Ooh, that's a good idea.

In the chair.

Before they take them away, rush, raise a... VO: Up next is the pair of German bisque dolls.

I'm rooting for you, Stephanie.

They're the sort of things that if I'd been given them at Christmas... You would have given them away?

..I would have pulled their heads off.

30, then, to start, £30.

30 bid, thank you.

35 now.

Very well done, Stephanie!

It's going up, it's going up.

Come on!

Anyone joining in in the room?

At 35.

A little more?

A little more for little people?

At 35.

Are we all finished...?

Yeah, that's a profit, though.

SB: That's a profit.

AMANDA: Well done...!

SB: Yeah.

TIM: Good result.

SB: That's a profit.

VO: Finally, a profit.

Well, they're gone, and we made a profit.

SERHAT: Hooray.

TIM: Well done, guys.

AMANDA: (LOUDLY) ..very well... SB: Yes.

AMANDA: (QUIETLY) Well done.

SB: (CHUCKLES) VO: It's the final lot, Amanda's 19th century leather armchair.

I think it's a really classy chair that would fit in a modern interior as a statement piece or it would fit into a nice 17th century cottage.

I think a modern hallway, it would actually look lovely.

£100?

Straight in at 180.

At 180.

190.

At 190.

Online bid at 190.

Go on, little chair, go, go, go!

LINDSEY: At 190.

If we're all finished?

At 190... SERHAT: Bravo, bravo.

TIM: In and out, well done.

AMANDA: Well done.

VO: The bidders are loving your items, Amanda.

Great result.

I think we should go off and do the tally.

We can add up who won.

VO: Come on, gang!

Let's go and get a calculator.

Stephanie and Serhat began with £400.

After all auction costs, they have a final figure of £207.46.

Amanda and Tim also started with 400 big ones and end with £445, making them the star-studded winners!

The profit of £45 will go to Children In Need.

Well done.

SB: Well... AMANDA: Woo, hoo, hoo!

SB: ..well done!

TIM: Oh, well, ladies... SERHAT: Aw, well done... AMANDA: Oh, thank you.

How did you find the auction experience today?

You did really well, you two, and I thought we were miserably cheated!

We were unlucky.

It's been an absolute pleasure... TIM: ..hasn't it?

SB: Yes, it has.

We have to bid you farewell.

TIM: See you later.

SERHAT: Bye, bye.

Goodbye.

Goodbye, treasures!

Safe driving!

Phew!

That was amazing!

I had a lovely time, darling.

What a good couple of days that's been.

I...

So lovely to see you again... SB: Yes, it is.

AMANDA: ..you old tart.

SB: I know, honestly.

VO: Outrageous!

Toodle-pip, darlings, we'll miss you very much!

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