

Pam St. Clement and Rudolph Walker
Season 2 Episode 7 | 58m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Pam St Clement and Rudolph Walker team up with experts Charles Hanson and James Braxton.
Eastenders veterans Pam St Clement and Rudolph Walker team up with experts Charles Hanson and James Braxton. They seek out antiques from East Sussex, Tumbridge, Wells in Kent, and finish up--dramatically--at auction at Rayleigh in Essex.
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Pam St. Clement and Rudolph Walker
Season 2 Episode 7 | 58m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Eastenders veterans Pam St Clement and Rudolph Walker team up with experts Charles Hanson and James Braxton. They seek out antiques from East Sussex, Tumbridge, Wells in Kent, and finish up--dramatically--at auction at Rayleigh in Essex.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipVOICEOVER (VO): Some of the nation's favorite celebrities... What if we were to say 150 for the two?
Then you've got yourself a deal.
VO: ..one antiques expert each...
I'll just turn my back!
ANTON: # Da da da-da da-da... # CHARLES: I like it, I like it!
VO: ..and one big challenge - who can seek out and buy the best antiques at the very best prices...
Wait for me!
Wait for me, wait for me!
(THEY LAUGH) VO: ..and auction for a big profit further down the road?
Keep going.
Oh!
VO: Who will spot the good investments?
Who will listen to advice?
What you've just come out with there, I cannot believe that!
VO: And who will be the first to say, "Don't you know who I am?!"
VO: Time to put your pedal to the metal.
This is Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!
Yeah!
VO: Buckled up and raring to go on this Road Trip, we have two characters sure to make a drama out of a crisis.
It's the king and queen of soapland - Pam St Clement and Rudolph Walker.
And as one of the longest-serving cast members on Britain's favorite soap, Pam St Clement has secured a place in the nation's heart as the formidable Pat Butcher from EastEnders.
PAM (PS): I'm very apprehensive about this Rudi.
I don't know anything about antiques.
Don't tell anybody.
Well, I know what I like.
Do you enjoy shopping?
RUDOLPH (RW): I do.
Unfortunately, when I'm feeling miserable and depressed, that's when I spend the most money.
PS: That's very feminine!
RW: (LAUGHS) VO: From classics like Othello to controversial sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour, Rudi's career spans over 45 years, and this smooth operator is showing no signs of slowing down.
But the great British summer has got them off to a rather damp start.
PS: Oh Rudi, look at this, for goodness' sakes.
VO: Gosh, Pam's quite posh, isn't she?
RW: Seaside on a summer's day... VO: And they're sailing towards their challenge in a rather splendid 1973 Rolls Royce Corniche - cor, I say.
Beautiful movement, isn't it?
It I... Oh, we're talking about the car now, are we?
VO: (LAUGHS) VO: Never likely to let something as trivial as a spot of rain dampen their spirits, and ensuring that everyone sticks to the script, we have two more cast members.
If I was to quickly waft... VO: In a supporting role, we have someone who, if you mention the Queen Vic to, he might blush.
Yes, it's the man who famously auctioned off a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers - that's right, it's the ever dapper, ever dashing Charles Hanson.
CHARLES (CH): Charles, there's no time, you can't look at waistcoats.
You're antiquing for God's sake man, come on.
JAMES (JB): I am six foot... Ooh!
VO: And completing this dazzling line up, we have the elder statesmen with more auction experience than you can shake a gavel at - over 20 years, you know - it's the local legend James Braxton.
I think you've got an advantage, because you know this area quite well, don't you?
I'm on home ground.
This is your home patch, so I'm the away team taking on the might of Braxton and his companion.
VO: And whilst our luvvies cruise in their Rolls, our experts are careering towards their curtain call in this quintessentially English 1960 Morris Minor.
And so we are going east.
No, west.
Oh yeah, west, we're going west.
That way.
The Rolly... Watch out Charles.
You're making me a little bit stressed.
VO: Oh boy... we could be in for a bumpy ride here.
I've got to be careful, because I'm going to keep saying "Pat, look at this!"
I imagine she's quite a tough lady, do you think she'll be quite tough in her bargaining?
JB: I think she will be tough.
RW: At the end of the day, they know their stuff.
PS: Well hopefully!
RW: You know... (LAUGHS) VO: Let the antique hunting masterclass begin.
Learning to navigate negotiations with £400 each, Pam and Rudolph have two days of intense shopping, one crucial auction and no time to spare.
VO: The ever-alluring East Sussex coast endeavors to dazzle at the starting point for this three county road trip, taking in Kent and winding up at auction in the market town of Rayleigh in Essex.
The rather posh, bracing Bexhill-on-Sea poses as the backdrop for our cast's first encounter.
CH: Here we are!
Come on Jimmy, ram it up now!
What an amazing building.
It's the old train station, and a fabulous antiques shop.
Oh, here they are, James.
Best behavior, look smart, ready for action.
PS: Hello, hello.
CH: Good to see you.
JB: James.
RW: James.
Great to see you.
Do you collect antiques?
No, I don't.
Well I will guide you through the vast variety of antiques there are.
Have you any great flair for a certain aspect of antiques?
No, I have no flair at all, I mean forget that.
No, get out of here!
But you're full of color, you're vibrant... VO: Having established their novice status, it's an even match, though there is one imbalance which needs to be addressed - who gets the Rolls?
Rudolph, we'd better make sure we hang onto this car, and Charles and Pat can get in the Morris.
OK, OK.
I think this is more us, isn't it?
RW: Very.
JB: Corniche.
I mean, it's more me.
It is more you.
You're in the Morris, by the way.
CH: Sorry?
JB: You better go in the Minor.
Charles is the most appalling driver, Pam, but you'll be in safe hands in that car.
What are you trying to say?!
Rudi has relinquished this lovely car to me.
Well, I am having second thoughts.
It's him!
He's the troublemaker!
Come on, let's get in there.
First move at advantage, I think.
Have you got those car keys hidden anywhere on that dashboard?
PS: Nip round there and see if they're in the ignition.
CH: No, they've gone.
PS: Oh darn.
Oh, no, they're here!
I've got the keys!
Let's go inside.
VO: The first dastardly deed of the day done - let's hope that doesn't end up costing them.
Let's find all these goodies.
VO: This fabulous old train station houses a vast collection of quirky and classic items.
James, what about... no?
Pair of glasses.
But do you see the difference in height?
There's chunks been taken out of that and they've ground it down.
OK.
So that's why it's a different height.
Wow!
JB: So... RW: Lesson number one.
Lesson number one.
VO: A lot to take in.
Luckily, owner Andrew Towle is on hand to help.
Don't worry, that's not him.
JB: Don't do all the work yourself.
This is the owner.
Yeah, but he's also selling.
I know, I know.
We'll trust him.
Alright, alright.
He has a kindly look about him, doesn't he Rudi?
Yes.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: With underhand tactics already at play with these two, I can do nothing but wish them good luck, or should I say break a leg?
Did you ever have any antiques on EastEnders at all?
PS: Nope.
CH: Nothing at all?
No, no.
Only the actors.
VO: Come on Pam, that's no way to speak about Barbara Windsor.
What's your taste?
Is it furniture, is it silver, is it jewelry?
I like glassware.
Yes, yeah.
I like china, I like jewels.
Yes.
I always like anything that glitters.
The market is good for things like small silver.
Right.
For things like small bits of porcelain, for collectables.
Yes.
Where the market is suffering for no apparent reason is this sort of market furniture.
This chest is 1810.
You're talking Waterloo, you're talking George III.
It's real history, but at the moment, at auction, they're barely making £150.
VO: Top tips there then Charles.
And don't forget, we're going from this grand antiques center to try and make money, so we've got to really dig deep.
Got a task, haven't we?
We have got a task, exactly.
VO: No pressure then (!)
But taking it in their stride, James and Rudolph are finding all sorts of weird and wonderful things.
JB: That's a pretty little rosewood box.
Yeah, very unusual.
Good quality, the rosewood.
Goodness.
Inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Feel the weight of it.
RW: Jeez!
I think it was off a ship, to stop the movement.
Wow!
But I mean, how many of these would be around, do you think?
I mean, have you come across something like this?
Never.
It's a novelty.
Anything unusual sells.
Right.
So that would be off one of these fabulous Victorian yachts, wouldn't it?
Absolutely.
That, you know, probably an engineer or something, his wife said, "Right darling, we're going on board ship".
It's so heavy this.
What some clever person has done is they've lined beneath the base here.
It's a big piece of lead, but it's fabulous, isn't it?
Yeah.
What could that be, Andy?
I could do it for 45 for you James, just to give you a chance.
Rudi, if you weren't here, I would be ripping that man's hand off.
Well rip it off - I'll just turn my back!
(LAUGHS) Thank you.
First one done.
That is fabulous, Rudi.
You did say you could go ahead then, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah!
(THEY LAUGH) Give the man a shake.
Wow!
I'm quite happy.
Rudi, I hate to sound boastful, but I think we've just slipped into the lead here.
Yep.
VO: Boast away then, James.
At £45, the box is a bargain.
CH: I quite like the chairs.
Do you like them?
No, I don't.
Don't do anything for me at all.
CH: I love these chairs here, aren't they great?
PS: Oh my lord.
CH: I love those chairs.
They're heavy, they're rich, they're carved.
But in today's market, has anybody got a home that would accommodate four of those enormously-space-taking-up chairs?
I love them.
VO: At least Pam was paying attention to what Charles was saying earlier, even if he wasn't.
These chairs again would be early 18th century.
They're good chairs, aren't they?
They are, but I don't see them going.
I really... VO: Meanwhile, Rudolph has been captivated by something altogether more delicate.
That's interesting.
Hey, hello.
Oh, they're nice, aren't they?
That's not what caught my eye!
(THEY LAUGH) We're all men of the world.
Oh, of course!
It's more these that caught my eye.
Who's Yvonne Macfie?
So Roaring Thirties, wasn't it?
So we'd all recovered a bit after the Great War and then the Wall Street Crash of '29.
There's a look, isn't there?
Hm.
And quite austere, look at that.
Yeah.
Look at that with the fur.
Yeah.
Rudi, I can see you're itching to take on Andy in a bit of haggling there.
Personally, if I was buying something like that, I really wouldn't go above £20.
Really.
Well, I think that would be a great buy if we got them for 20.
OK, let's see!
VO: Here we go - Rudolph's first haggling test.
Can you throw these in with the thing we're buying?
No!
I can do a deal on these though.
20 quid I can do you these for.
No, I'd give you that for 10.
I mean, what can we...
I mean, it's not someone that's well known.
Oh it is.
Well known to me.
Well known to you, yeah!
£20 is a giveaway, really.
If you don't do well on that... JB: Yeah.
In fact - go on, come clean Rudi.
You said, "If he says about..." Yeah, I mean, if you... (THEY LAUGH) "If he says about 20, I'll buy them."
VO: Wait a minute James, whose side are you on?
You're on the same wavelength, you two!
He's our man, he's our man!
He's reading you.
I'm trying to do me best here.
VO: He drives a hard bargain, our Rudi.
Shaking on £20 for the bevy of beauties, and they paid £45 for the rosewood box - not a bad start, chaps.
JB: You did.
(LAUGHS) Andy, have they bought anything yet, the other team?
They have bought two items, Charles.
PS: Two?
CH: Have they bought well?
I think they've bought well, I think you've got to start working Charles.
VO: Do I detect a whiff of desperation in the air?
Right, let's have a look and see what else you've got.
Is there anything you haven't put out yet?
VO: Nice try though.
PS: How much is the canteen, out of interest?
ANDY: I can do that for 65.
PS: What is it?
CH: Fish forks, aren't they?
PS: They're fish forks, yes.
Do you ever serve with fish forks and knives in the old pub on EastEnders?
No, don't be foolish.
(LAUGHS) Don't do that in pubs.
VO: And that's him told!
CH: Mental note.
Thank you Andy, we'll think on it.
PS: Thank you.
ANDY: Yeah, sure.
CH: Nothing is doing it for me here.
PS: Yeah.
CH: And you know, I want to give you a wow factor.
I want to give you a real... "Look at this, Pam, this is really great."
No, no, I'm... You know, I'm walking round a bit aimlessly and I want to impress you, Pam.
I think whilst they're negotiating and they bought two items, why don't we hop in their car and hop off?
(WHISPERS) What a good idea.
OK. VO: So far, grabbing the Rolls first is the only thing this mischievous pair have agreed on.
They're coming out very shortly, OK?
Quickly, quickly, quickly!
Ha-ha!
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) PS: Oh no, start!
VO: Oh dear.
Oh, it's as dead as a doornail.
CH: It's dead.
Right.
Put it in neutral.
CH: Yeah, I'm in neutral.
VO: Mind you, looks like Pam's done this before.
Have you got the brake on?
Yes?
Hold on, the brake's off now.
OK. OK?
Yeah, OK, try now.
CH: Keep going!
PS: That's it, that's it.
Keep going!
VO: Such a gent, Charles - allowing the lady to push.
Wait for me, wait for me!
Hop in, quick!
VO: And there you have it - Pam St Clement and Charles Hanson in Grand Theft Auto.
Oh!
The rotters.
VO: The scrabble for their first antique is taking our rogues five miles east along the coast to historic Hastings.
Hastings has an incredible history of maritime adventures, smugglers and of course the first castle to be built in England by William the Conqueror.
Today, it has a cosmopolitan vibe, and luckily for us, some fabulous antique shops.
Pam, are you a Pamela or just Pam?
PS: I quite like Pamela.
CH: Pamela, I'll... Pamela rolls off the tongue quite nicely.
CH: May I call you Pamela?
PS: Please do.
Do you like my waistcoat?
PS: I love your waistcoat.
CH: Really?
Really?
Men should be Cavaliers, they should be dressy and peacocks.
I'm a bit puny really, Pamela, I'm...
Some people look better in clothes, some people look better out of clothes.
Yeah, it's a good point, thanks.
VO: With nothing bought, these two players need a plan.
I'm determined to spend all our money, because look what we're driving, hey?
CH: Let's reflect our motor.
PS: It's true, yes.
Eat your heart out Rudi!
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Their second stop of the day - Nelson House Antiques.
CH: How's that?
Oops!
How's that?
"Worn relics part exchanged."
Don't get any ideas, cuz you're not part-exing me, thank you!
VO: Proprietor Sue Bower standing by.
Hello there!
Hi, hello, hello.
Nice to see you.
CH: Look at this.
PS: That is... Look at this for the mother of all chandeliers, here.
Splendid.
The queen of... VO: Not dissimilar to one of Pat's famous earrings!
You're a lady who likes a good glint.
What's it worth?
PS: 850.
CH: 850?
Mm.
It could be yours for £3,200.
Go home!
VO: Exactly, Charles.
I mean, unless there's a pair, there's no way Pam's going to be interested!
CH: That's a good old screen, isn't it?
PS: Look at that.
CH: Yeah.
"In a dream, I saw them stand "Hope and memory, hand in hand "Hope's sweet face was bid from view "But I knew it, pure and true."
Yeah, that's sad.
Could you stand by this screen for the next month and sell it for me, Pam?!
You'd be wonderful!
VO: Come on you two - the day is wearing on and you're still antique-less!
PS: We need to get buying.
CH: ..objects...
I know we do.
We are a lady and gent on the run.
We're in the Rolls but we need now some objects to go in the boot, don't we?
We do.
CH: We do, don't we?
PS: We do, indeed.
I'm sorry about this, Pam.
I'm not a bad expert.
It's just...
It's not... You know, I'm not seeing it yet.
It's never over until that big lady sings.
PS: I know, I know.
VO: How frustrating!
You two aren't having any luck at all.
Or could this be what I believe is referred to as "bad karma"?
Excuse me, sir.
There's no other antique center around here, is there, at all?
Big antique center?
Well, the only other antique shop is down in George Street.
CH: Oh, yes!
PS: Yes.
CH: Oh, Pam, look at this.
PS: Yes.
Great.
I'm feeling more antique inspired now.
PS: Yes.
VO: Glad to hear it, Charles.
Shop manager David Hunt wants to show our day trippers something which might just fit the bill.
DEALER: This only came in on Friday.
Pam, you know what I said - we like market fresh.
Yes.
New things in, untouched.
Pam... would you take a glass of white wine out of that?
If I was feeling strong enough.
CH: That's always a good sign.
PS: Feel that.
A really heavy... Oh, yeah, that's great, isn't it?
Bohemian.
1880 or thereabouts.
DEALER: Exactly.
CH: So the way this was made, Pam, you would have had this almost cameo of glass, a sandwich of glass, and the engraver would have engraved through the yellows... Yeah?
..rub it all out, to reveal the sandwich of clear glass underneath.
And look at the deer in the landscape.
PS: Yeah.
Foolishness.
CH: That's quite nice.
Look at that... Look at that detail.
You don't have to sell it to me, Charles!
It's whether, you know, it would sit happily in our auction.
It says £95.
The absolute best on that would be..?
80 would be - that's it.
Hm.
I would offer you 70, for cash.
And I would... have to say no.
Can't just come down a little bit?
75?
I've come down £5 more than I should anyway... CH: Sure.
PS: Yeah, OK. CH: Sure.
DEALER: So I...you know... CH: Yeah.
VO: Oh, dear!
Three shops down, and nothing bought.
This is turning into a tragedy.
I can't believe we're still empty-handed.
I know.
Are you really concerned?
Yes.
Really?
Live in hope, OK?
PS: OK. CH: I'm sorry!
VO: Yes, live in hope - things can't get any worse.
PS: We're going in the wrong direction, aren't we?
CH: We are.
VO: I lied!
PS: Never mind.
VO: Meanwhile, James and Rudolph are clearly enjoying the Morris's charm.
JB: Now, Rudi, do you like cars substantial?
I like the solid, substantial... Yeah, yeah.
..cars - the ones that really sit on the road and they're heavy.
JB: Yeah, yeah.
RW: Um... JB: Now, how did we end up in this, then?
RW: How did we...?
(LAUGHS) VO: OK, maybe not!
VO: With the wind in their hair - well, you know what I mean!
- James and Rudolph are making their way 20 miles northeast to idyllic Rolvenden, to a rather special motor museum.
VO: With some of the earliest examples of everything from goods vehicles, family cars, caravans and an array of motoring memorabilia, this museum is one of the best private collections of its kind in the country.
RW: Hey, look at this!
JB: Isn't this superb?!
Wow!
Hey-hey-hey!
Look at these!
Isn't it lovely?!
VO: Passionate petrolhead Chris Booth's 52-year love affair with everything automotive started when he was a child, initially collecting toy cars and pin badges.
This is one here which... which I have, which happens to be a Morgan, which I had when I was four years old.
So did this spark your interest in the...?
Well, I suppose it did.
Mainly it was the three wheelers, for something different.
VO: In 1960, Chris bought his first Morgan three wheeler - the vehicle which brought motoring to the masses.
CHRIS: This...
This Morgan was the one I had in 1960.
JB: What a great car.
And... is this made in 1960 or was it older?
It's 1934.
The main reason I started with a three-wheeler was because you could drive it on a bike license CHRIS: when you were 16.
RW: OK. VO: The stars of this collection have to be the 20 pristine Morgan three wheelers, commonly known as the cycle car.
And the man behind this motoring revolution was Henry Morgan.
In 1910, he launched his motoring marvel, which quickly gained huge respect.
Soundly built and incredibly fast, it won hundreds of awards and smashed speed records in every class of motorsport.
Although the last Morgan three wheeler left the factory in 1953, thanks to people like Chris, its legacy lives on.
When I came to England in 1960, when I saw a three wheeler, I thought, "What's happening to England?
"We're used to four wheelers in Trinidad."
And suddenly, I'm faced with a three wheeler!
"Have they gone backward over here?!"
JB: Is there a little fellow we could sit in?
CHRIS: Yes, you can, yes.
VO: James, I thought you'd never ask!
JB: Look at this fella!
RW: Hey-hey!
VO: This model of classic 1920s Morgan was another champ.
Able to reach speeds of 70 miles an hour, it won more medals and trophies than any other comparable machine.
Turn the petrol on... flood the carburetor, we've turned on the battery, turn on the ignition switch, turn on the oil... VO: OK, someone's going to have to write all this lot down!
It's like a jet fighter, this!
..ignition... A little bit of throttle, and press the starter.
Well, I tell you what, I'm not gonna steer it, because I wouldn't want to come back!
(THEY LAUGH) I'm gonna get into this and I wanna take it all the way to Trinidad!
It's alright, I'll give you the privilege.
You sit... VO: Bit of a squeeze, eh, James?
Must have been that big breakfast.
Oh... Oh!
Oh!
VO: And he's off... No, you don't - just tap the brake there... RW: OK, that's as far as you go.
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright!
VO: ..or he would be, given half a chance!
That is fabulous.
Thank you, Chris.
Should we get back to the Morris?
Can you walk properly?
I mean...
I... No, you lead on, you lead on.
VO: Charles and Pam are scampering to their last shop of the day - 20 miles north to the charming town of Tenterden.
When you, er, first appeared in EastEnders, did you ever foresee the longevity of your... a quarter of a century?
I was an actor who always refused long runs.
I said, "Oh, I don't want to tie myself down for a year!"
But to develop a character and to play the breadth of scripts that I've been allowed to over that 25½ years, is something that you probably wouldn't get in an entire career.
VO: So far, Pam and Charles have bought precisely nothing.
Let's hope they find something here.
PS: Lovely!
CH: OK, Pamela.
Let's go and see what they've got.
That magical thing might be there, to be unearthed.
VO: For both your sakes, I do hope so!
PS: Hi, Terry...
..I'm Pam.
Hi.
CH: Pamela.
TERRY: Hello.
PS: Nice to meet you.
And you.
Let's hope you're gonna do great things for us!
VO: Shop owner Terry Smith is primed and ready to assist.
I think we probably wanna go for the novelty, go for the more... peculiar.
PS: Yes, I agree.
Absolutely.
I've seen something very amusing.
That's quite neat.
Is it a little pillbox?
Is that a regent...?
Oh, no.
Viagra.
I think that's the person who made it!
Yeah.
I mean, do you see many Viagra boxes?
I wouldn't know.
No... That's quite a nice box, isn't it?
It was probably made in France, in Limoges.
Sometimes novelty sells, and, you know, maybe...you know, maybe the market's growing for Viagra pillboxes.
Who knows?
You know?
PS: I think it's delightful.
CH: I like it.
PS: It would warm the auction room.
CH: Yeah.
Yeah.
OK.
It's a lovely shop, isn't it?
VO: An unexpected find, but hey, they said they wanted novelty.
However, they need more, and time is not on their side.
CH: Time is ticking.
Look at this.
You know, Pamela... You know, you could have a picture of you and me, hey?
CH: A match made in Heaven.
PS: Actually, no, I tell you, that is a fabulous wedding present.
CH: Isn't it?
PS: You can have a picture of the bride and groom... CH: Yeah.
Look, could have your initials there, my initials there.
I don't think your wife would be very happy about it.
No, no.
But that is substantial, it's got a good gage of silver and, OK, it's not antique, but it's of an intrinsic value, because it's silver.
PS: Yes.
CH: And you know, I just think it's been a tough day today, and, you know, this could be our match.
VO: Potentially the second item they're all agreed on.
I'm thrilled!
TERRY: It's modern but if it was new, I don't think you could buy that for £300.
This photo frame I would guide at auction between 100 and 150, so we'd really want it... PS: Yes.
CH: ..for about 120.
Best we could do, 135.
That's somewhere between your estimate.
And I would probably want to buy it for about £110.
115 and we have a deal - we'll shake on it.
PS: Well do you want to chuck in the little Viagra pot as well?
For fun, yes.
We'll put the Viagra pot in as well.
CH: Cometh the hour... PS: Cometh the man!
Cometh...
In the 90th minute, for £115, I think we've bought our first two items!
It's been... PS: Relieved, relieved!
CH: ..a day, hasn't it?
CH: A day and a half.
PS: Relieved!
Terry, thanks ever so much.
Oh, no, no, no!
No, wait!
CH: That's lovely.
A Victorian... Look at the lovely acorn leaf handle.
PS: Silver-plated meat dish.
CH: And the nice thing is also, look, there's a crest on there.
VO: I think you'll find it's called a cloche, actually!
It must be, what?
1860?
1870?
TERRY: Yeah something like that.
PS: It's very nice.
It's certainly Victorian.
What we could almost do, you know, is buy this and put it with the Viagra pot and say, "Wife, look, look at this.
Voila!"
Hey?
What do you think?
I love your foreplay!
VO: Oh, Pam, you are awful!
CH: What's the best price on this?
TERRY: It should be £50.
CH: Yes.
But seeing as you've bought the silver frame already, I'll do it for £40 for you.
CH: Shall we do it?
PS: Yes.
Terry, you're a good man.
There we go again, another handshake.
TERRY: Another handshake.
CH: That's great.
TERRY: Cheers.
VO: Maybe good things DO come in threes.
This surprise last-minute find, a stunning Victorian silver-plated meat cover, brings their total spend for the day to £155.
VO: So get some rest, m'darlings, because tomorrow you've all got some serious shopping to do!
Night-night!
VO: Cue sunshine, cue Rolls Royce, cue our ever-eager road trippers, ready for another day of antique shopping heaven.
Good morning, young man.
Oh, that is a compliment - "young man"!
Oh, I like the sound of that!
Pamela, you know, she's ever so keen to get it right.
JB: Yeah.
CH: She's high on energy, and James, I have to deliver.
PS: Charles has been saying to me, you have to buy with your heart but you also have to, on top of it... Hm.
..make a judgment about whether it's of the moment.
You know, what are people looking for?
Rudi was very funny with the haggling.
I could see he wanted... he wanted to do it, and he totally changed, like an actor.
He put on a very stern persona.
Let's have a smooth ride, please.
CH: Sorry.
(CLUNKING) PS: Oh!
CH: James, James... VO: Yesterday very nearly ended in disaster for Pam and Charles as they couldn't find or agree on anything to buy.
I'm sorry about this, Pam, I'm not seeing it yet.
VO: Until of course they struck gold!
Well silver actually.
They spent £155 on a twin silver frame, a silver plated meat cover and a cheeky Viagra pot.
Leaving them £245 to pick up some more priceless props.
We're all men of the world.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Meanwhile the ever ready Rudi and James strode their way through several scenes, picking up the weighty lead lined rosewood box and some sultry sketches for a modest £65.
With a whopping £335 still to spend, Messrs Walker and Braxton have some serious business to do today.
If you weren't here I'd be ripping that man's hand off.
Well rip it off.
Morning, team.
You look perfect in there.
I feel absolutely right, it's my home.
JB: OK, bye.
CH: See you later.
RW: See you.
PS: Have a lovely day.
Bye.
(BUZZING) It's completely dead isn't it?
Yes.
It's completely popeyed.
I think we'll have to leave the car here actually.
Yes.
And we'll walk up.
Have you got Securicor on hand?
Bye-bye, sweetheart, behave.
CH: (LAUGHS) VO: (FEIGNS SOBBING) The indignity!
Imagine - having to walk!
This morning, James and Rudi are headed to the last shop Pam and James went to yesterday.
Well you never know - they might have missed something!
Rudi, this is my manor, so I know...
So you know it, alright.
OK. My manor.
RW: Home territory.
JB: Home territory.
Morning, morning.
This looks very promising.
JB: This looks very nice.
VO: Yeah, Pam and Charles dealt with Terry yesterday, today his wife Pam is helping the boys.
I bet Charles said this to you yesterday - have you got anything market fresh?
Did he?
I dunno, my husband dealt with him yesterday!
Alright.
Shall we spend five or 10 minutes looking round the shop?
RW: Yeah.
OK. JB: You shout out JB: if anything grabs you.
RW: Alright.
This is difficult.
Too much.
I wouldn't know where to start as far as what the people going to auction, what they want to buy.
VO: Come on Rudi, haven't you learned anything?
RW: What's this?
Walnut case.
It's a metronome, so it keeps your time.
OK. # Old man river # that old man river... # Then you slide it up to go fast.
# Pack up all my cares... # RW: Too slow!
(THEY LAUGH) VO: And here's good old Terry, who's produced something rather interesting for the boys.
Oh, look at that, eh.
TERRY: Bought yesterday.
JB: Bought yesterday?
That is market fresh.
What a lovely barometer.
I think that's rather interesting.
TERRY: That's 1850 to 1870.
JB: Yeah.
So a trusty Victorian one.
Beneath that is a reservoir of mercury and these are ivory vernier scales, they call these.
Ah, right, OK. And these are so accurate aren't they?
VO: Indeed they are but it's worth bearing in mind that only ivory products which predate 1947 can be legally bought.
Thankfully, this one dates from a much earlier period.
JB: I think that's rather unusual.
It's a nice bit of mahogany.
How much?
TERRY: 150 quid.
Rudi, I think we should buy that.
I think so too.
150.
Er, can I have a word with your... Er, with your... darling.
PAM: That's the first I've seen it!
RW: I know, I know... JB: You see, you see... Can you go back inside please, let me have a chat with...
I tell you, I tell you - watch this man.
Ladies tend to swoon, don't they?
Not, not, not Pam, I don't think!
(THEY LAUGH) JB: I think it's a lovely item and I think we should buy it.
OK, you're the expert and I have to agree with you.
I love this, really love this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Saves me doing it up!
VO: Once again, James and Rudi are not leaving empty handed and clearly not saving anything for a rainy day.
They've paid the asking price of £150 for this stick barometer.
Let's hope it stays fair!
VO: Charles is yet to shine on this antiques drama and so he's brought the queen of soaps to the house once owned by the woman hailed as the queen of the stage, Dame Ellen Terry.
Maybe here he'll find his "motivation!"
PS: Look at that!
Roses painted to order.
Is that 16th century?
You're quite right.
Henry VIII, early 1500s.
You know, I'm impressed.
I defy any building that's built modern PS: to last this long.
CH: Absolutely.
VO: Smallhythe Place is a Tudor gem nestled in the Kent countryside and was bought by Dame Ellen in 1899 for the princely sum of £900 and was her home for the last 30 years of her life.
It is now run by the National Trust.
Good morning.
PAUL: Morning.
CH: May we come in?
PAUL: You can indeed.
CH: Paul, meet Pamela.
Hello Paul.
How do you do?
Welcome to Ellen Terry's residence.
PS: Lovely.
CH: Fantastic.
VO: Tour guide Paul Meredith will help illuminate this captivating lady who really was the Liz Taylor of her day.
Hailing from a dynasty of actors, Ellen Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare's plays, before going on to be regarded as the leading Shakespearean and comic actor in Britain with a career spanning seven decades.
Though having had three husbands and two illegitimate children, her life was anything but conventional.
CH: Was she a real beauty, Paul?
PAUL: Very, very beautiful and admired by men sort of throughout the country.
CH: Yeah.
And apparently there was a story that a lot of young men proposed to their brides by saying, "As Ellen Terry won't have me, will you marry me?"
CH: Really?
Is it a lady you look up to, Pam?
CH: Is she... PS: Oh very much.
How did she become such a name?
Well strangely enough she was one of the first to actually use the media quite a lot.
Yeah.
We have a letter that she wrote to her third husband which says how she was chased down the platform of a railway station by the equivalent of the paparazzi of the day.
CH: Really?
PAUL: Rushed into the carriage and pulled the blind down to stop them pestering her at the time.
Isn't it interesting that that was the press of the day as well?
It was ever thus.
Perhaps you would like to go upstairs now and have a look at one of Dame Ellen Terry's most famous costumes.
It's a massive collection.
The original?
Indeed.
Can't wait.
Can't wait.
Wonderful.
VO: The pinnacle of her career of course was playing Lady Macbeth.
The famous beetle wing dress for Dame Ellen's performance as Lady Macbeth at the Lyceum theater in London was made in 1888.
This magnificent costume adorned with real beetle wings is now over 120 years old and has recently undergone a painstaking reconstruction and restoration which took a whopping 1,300 hours to complete.
Yes.
The beetle dress.
CH: And what's it made of, Paul?
PAUL: Well there's a silk underskirt that's sort of dyed to the right color and then there's a crocheted over dress and then on each corner of all the crocheted bits was sewn a beetle wing.
PS: That must be quite heavy.
It's a heavy costume.
Yeah, oh that's...
It went with a cloak as well which was also quite heavy.
That's a nightmare on stage I have to say, to be... You know, to have a heavy costume.
It's an added stress, if you like.
This is the actual book which she used - the prompt copy of Macbeth which is fully annotated with all sorts of little scribbles on how she's going to play the part.
Look at this - "slight break in voice "Lady M, consider it not so deeply."
VO: After Dame Ellen's death in 1928, everything passed to her daughter Edith who turned one of the outbuildings in to a theater which to this day regularly hosts plays.
And clearly Pam just can't resist.
But Charles, really, perhaps you should sit this one out.
So am I acting as though you're my lover?
I'm your wife.
Sorry, wife.
That's it.
So wife.
OK, Mrs. VO: Hardly a packed house but I'm sure Paul will give them his undivided attention.
Alright?
Got it, got it.
How now?
What news?
He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?
Hath he ask'd for me?
Know you not he has?
I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: and would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
Gosh.
The raw emotion.
It is so difficult to read that with all her notes.
There's scribbles all over it.
It's wonderful, look.
CH: If we should fail?
PS: We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail.
(APPLAUSE) Thank you.
Thank you very much.
VO: Well, that was quite a performance!
I think as productions go on the stage at Smallhythe that's got to be one of the most unique I've ever seen.
Follow me.
Yes please.
Never leave me, Lady Macbeth, and I promise you... the future is ours.
He really has the gift of the gab.
VO: I say - Charles has gone all method!
Let's get this show back on the road!
VO: Our antiques tale is taking us 25 miles cross country to the stunning spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
In its Georgian heyday this was a booming tourist resort - visitors flocked here to take the waters, thought to have healing properties.
Much of the stunning architecture from that period remains and within lies some fabulous antique shops.
Where are we going now?
Tunbridge Wells.
Royal Tunbridge Wells please!
Well, you know, we are both royalists, aren't we?
We are.
Pam, cometh the man, cometh the hour, hey?
You got the right man, I promise you.
Let's do it for Queen and country.
Let's go and find that missing, missing object that is waiting for you and I. PS: On, on!
You noblest English.
(THEY LAUGH) PS: Thank you, Henry V. VO: I say, that was rather rousing!
JB: Your famous role in Love Thy Neighbour... RW: Well, that's going back a bit.
That started in 1970.
After the first few episodes, we had an inkling that this was something special.
It was groundbreaking, it was a tremendous success.
This is our dynamic duo's last chance to bag a bargain for the auction.
And where better than at Ian Relf Antiques?
Let's go!
VO: Oh and there's the man himself!
RW: Hi.
IAN: How're you doing?
RW: Not too bad.
Rudolph Walker.
IAN: I'm pleased to meet you.
I recognize you straightaway and I remember listening to your play on Radio 4 when you played Basil D'Oliveira, that was... RW: Wow, you're joking.
IAN: Wonderful.
Most people when you meet you say "Oh, Love Thy Neighbour," or, "EastEnders."
You made my day.
I hope you make my day now by spending some money!
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Ah flattery, works every time - now, get shopping.
What about your trombone there?
I mean, will this appeal to someone who is collecting this sort of thing or is it for... Musical instruments are always sought after and especially a certain manufacturer.
Who's it made by?
Boosey &... Boosey & Hawkes?
Oh, fabulous, great maker.
You can see I'm obviously a jazz musician by the way I'm approaching this!
Oh, hello!
Another one.
Another one.
That's another fiver knocked off.
Isn't it something like... (TUNELESS PARPING) VO: Oh no James, please don't!
Stick to the day job!
Sweet music, sweet music.
I mean, is that natural or is that... We call those honorable scars.
Honorable scars.
OK, OK, I have a few of those, yes.
Somebody, somebody threw a glass at the man in Ronnie Scott's.
What could that be to us?
Let's see... Erm... how about 65?
65.
God, that seems good.
VO: Er, James, what's happened to haggling then?
It's a speculative thing, and it might play in our favor.
So about 60 would be alright for this.
Yeah, go on, we'll go to 60.
60.
Well I think we should do that.
OK. VO: Good work Rudi.
Sneaky little haggle there - managed to knock a fiver off.
So £60 it is!
What are we looking at?
The cricket ball.
The cricket ball.
And, you know, you do the off break and the leg break and if they allow me to demonstrate it in front of the crowd...
Exactly.
..it might make a few more pounds.
You never know.
Handled by Rudolph Walker, who also touched Gary Sobers' hand, who also touched Viv Richards!
That's a few extra quid, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
IAN: I'll put that in with the trombone.
You never know, even if it made one or two pounds, it's profit.
It's profit.
True, true, true, true.
That's really kind.
VO: Well clearly bowled over by Mr Walker's charm, Ian has kindly thrown in the cricket ball for free.
What a good sport!
Let's hit the road.
OK. Bless you.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you, Ian.
Here we are.
VO: Ah, Aaron Antiques.
Fingers crossed they have more luck in here.
Oh, I've knocked something over already.
That's a cockerel, he's still crowing.
VO: Not thanks to you two!
Pam, I'm feeling really pumped up now.
I'm feeling really pumped up.
VO: Really, Charles?!
Probably just too much orange squash, old boy - it'll pass.
Fortunately it looks as if this little treasure trove may well have some unusual fruits to bear.
He's quite neat, isn't he?
Quite like him?
No.
Look at him, eh.
He's smiling at us isn't he?
And you know he's a bit flaky but over the years we'll all get flaky.
Put him down, I want to have a look round.
CH: Do you like him?
PS: No.
No, OK. VO: Unless you two can agree - I can't see this ending well.
Or, Pamela, do we go for a big statement piece or dare I say it even a statesman, because up there is that great man, Disraeli.
I think personally we stand more chance with your gnome than we do with Disraeli.
I just don't think that the auction house we're going to is going to actually have a Disraeli fan there.
That's an interesting observation.
There's something else there I like the look of.
It's a little watering can.
That I suspect is Staffordshire 1890-ish and it's quite novel because it's in pot.
It's a lead-glazed earthenware.
It's hand tinted with this... Ah, look - bees and honey, it means money maybe.
He knows what that means!
Bees and money.
I'm learning East Ender rhymes, OK?
Bear that in mind.
Yeah, definitely.
VO: Well would you Adam and Eve it?
After a little butcher's hook, they've finally found "summing" they both like.
Just nip up them apples and pears and see what else you can bump and grind - find.
PS: There's something else there I like the look of.
CH: Oh, that's nice.
That's a really, really nice clock, Pam.
VO: Shop owner Ronald Goodman is able and ready to assist.
Just come in, that one.
Just come in, has it?
Oh right.
Hong Kong retail, is that right, do you think?
DEALER: Yeah, I think it's probably a French movement.
It's probably 1880s looking at that, I should think.
Made to order for... PS: It could have been for a maritime company, you know, in Hong Kong.
DEALER: But you've got the anchor and the ship's wheel and you've got the canons.
Anyone who's interesting in maritime history would want to buy that.
How much?
I'm asking 220.
It's a lovely thing.
If you really want it you can have it for 180.
We saw down below, sir, a nice watering can, didn't we?
Uh-hm.
Try...
Try and sweet talk him.
What... What are you asking?
Well, it's a rare object, I've never seen one quite like that before.
It can be as little as £160.
I think that is way above us.
Yes.
We do do the brass model for £20.
CH: Yes.
PS: Ah, well... VO: These two items together would take them to £340.
But they've only got £245 left from their £400 budget.
Some serious negotiations required here or a radical re-think.
What would be the best on the clock and the watering can?
245 quid the two and you've got a deal.
That's gotta be the deal of a lifetime.
But is there one more thing we could put in our armory to take on the might of James Braxton and Rudi?
CH: What other item?
PS: A little piece... CH: How about a magnifying glass?
I mean the magnifying glass is a 25 quid magnifying glass all day long.
To give us a fighting chance, with your blessing dealer, that at 15, the clock at 170, which takes us up to 185 and then the money left over, 60 on the kettle which comes to 245...
I think, Pam we have a deal.
£245 in cash.
And that's it, our entire budget gone.
That's it.
This is the way I like to see people leave the shop - with no money in their pocket.
VO: Well it was a close call but Pam and Charles managed to pull it out of the bag and spend all of their money!
That flurry of haggling concludes the shopping expedition - well played everyone.
But now here in the rather splendid town of Tunbridge Wells, it's time to compare notes and reveal what they bought.
(THEY EXCLAIM) Oh!
That's interesting.
Pick up the jewelry box, have a look at that.
CH: OK. Is it heavy?
PS: Lord above!
CH: Is it heavy?
PS: What's in there?
CH: That's heavy, isn't it?
PS: That is incredibly heavy.
That's heavy.
Is it lead lined?
JB: It's lead.
CH: How much did it cost you?
JB: £40.
Yeah, bargain.
I would guide it between £70 and £100.
Maritime interest, we're not far from the coast, I like it.
The ball.
Tell me, has it any pedigree?
What's its provenance?
Rudolph Walker's holding it.
We probably wouldn't get anything for this but I'm sure we will.
Why?
I just saw these and I thought... it's unusual.
CH: Yeah.
JB: Very Wallace Simpson, all date - '30s.
Oh, they're good.
Framed, they would be worth individually a fair sum.
What are they worth as a collection?
I would say probably about 60.
CH: How much?
JB: Go on, Rudi.
RW: 20.
CH: No!
Oh, see it's who you know and this man knows all these people.
He's on the ropes, he's on the ropes!
Well we spent every last... Every last penny, we went to the wire.
Rudi, give me your initial impression.
Look at that for an array of items!
Right.
JB: What's this?
Is this... Well James, this was actually spotted by Pamela, she unearthed it.
Very good.
It's our star buy because it was the most expensive, Rudi, but it has that maritime flavor.
PS: Marble base.
JB: I like the Hong Kong... Wow!
CH: It wasn't cheap though.
JB: 200?
Yeah, he's spot on, isn't he?
But it cost us... PS: 170.
CH: 170.
Then James, we felt we were a match made in heaven so we bought a lovely twin photo frame.
Lovely.
Rudi, it's solid silver.
What?!
PS: Absolutely solid silver CH: Yes, it's solid silver.
Rudi, we bought something just for you.
You're a man.
Very rare.
(THEY LAUGH) Yeah, it's cheeky.
The sweetest little Limoges pillbox.
Rudi, we know you're young at heart, OK.
I haven't blushed like this all day!
I'm speechless.
Here we come tomorrow, here we come tomorrow.
Mwah!
VO: Now it's time to find out what they really thought about what each other bought.
When that cloth came off their objects, I thought, "Not a patch on ours."
I have to tell you, I thought ours were classier.
We have them on the ropes here!
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
James seemed to find that box very interesting but I can't see who'll purchase it to be honest with you.
Yeah, yeah.
They'll just sort of think, "Why've they got a heavy box?"
Introduce the Viagra, that was kind of... That was a low blow.
It was, it was.
Below the belt!
Literally.
CH: I am quite nervous.
I think they've bought an explosive lot which could be that folio of watercolors.
To me that was a real real bargain.
Between us, I think it's been a good two days.
I think it's been a great two days, thank you very much indeed.
RW: Well... well done.
JB: Good luck.
RW: It's been a pleasure.
JB: Yeah.
VO: Time for the grand finale - the all important auction lies an hour north in the market town of Rayleigh.
It'll be a daunting, it will be epic, it will be like a rollercoaster, James.
PS: I just hope that we don't make a vast loss because that would be so embarrassing.
PS: It really would.
RW: Yep.
VO: Their final scene is set in an auction house of suitable vintage!
Stacey auctions, purveyors of fine antiques and collectables since 1947.
Pull in here, boss.
In there?
Yeah, perfect.
330, new bidder, 340.
VO: Auctioneer extraordinaire Paul Stacey has the inside scoop on what he thinks will perform well here.
Without any question the best lot is going to be the desk clock.
I think Charles and Pam have really spotted a little sleeper here and I think it's going to make £200 or £300.
Rudolph and James bought the trombone, I hope they haven't paid too much for it.
The Victorian meat dish... VO: Nice and shiny, isn't it?
Generally these go into auction and they don't make very much.
I don't know why they bought this one quite frankly.
The Viagra pot, what do you say about that?!
It might make £10, it might make 100.
This is going to be something that's quite different.
VO: Both teams started with £400 each.
Pam and Charles spent the lot and ended up with six shiny pretty objects.
Now organized into six auction lots It's never over until that big lady sings, OK?
I know, I know.
VO: However Rudi and James only spent £275 - a real mixed bag across their five auction lots.
I'm getting nervous actually.
Well, may the best man win.
This is when we separate the men from the boys.
RW: From the boys.
Well, I don't know... (THEY LAUGH) VO: Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats - the auction is about to begin!
Do well but not too, OK?
VO: First up, it's Pam and Charles's silver twin picture frame.
Must start the bidding at £70, the bid's here with me at £70.
Come on!
70, 75, now 80 against you, 85, 90, 95, 100 back with me on the commission.
Last chances please.
At 100.
Oh no.
VO: Let's hope that loss doesn't put them out of the picture.
I'm sorry, Pamela, I'm sorry.
It's warming us up, warming us up.
VO: Rudi and James's lead-lined rosewood box, thought to be from a Victorian ship, is next to appear.
He's getting nervous.
Let's start the bidding at £20 to start, £20 straight in.
Hey, we've got a bid.
£20 is bid, thank you sir.
Well done.
It's weighted.
22, 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42.
Go on, sir.
45, 45 I have on the internet, against you in the room.
It's on the internet at £45.
Are you all done?
Selling to the internet for £45.
VO: That's taken the wind out of their sails!
We come now, ladies and gentlemen, to the erotic interest.
We have the Viagra pillbox.
CH: Come on, old dear.
PAUL: £20 to start.
CH: Come on!
PAUL: £20 straight in.
Are you bidding sir?
No, no, sorry!
CH: No, no, I'm sorry.
JB: He's a young man.
22 now, 25, 28 on the internet.
Bit of stiff competition now!
30... VO: He just had to go there, didn't he?
A bid of £38 now, £38.
Are you all done?
This hammer is going down.
PS: Yes!
RW: Hey, well done.
Thank you very much, thank you... VO: That's proved a valuable little lot.
After their loss on the picture frame, every penny counts.
Rudi's lovely ladies pose an interesting proposition next.
30 is bid, 32, 35, 38, 40 now, 42, 45, 48 against you, 50 bid, five, 60, 5.
At £65 I shall sell.
Well done.
JB: 65.
CH: That's awesome.
VO: Stunning work there, Rudi.
I rarely make a profit, I can tell you, Rudi.
VO: Oh now he tells us!
Reassuring isn't it?!
Serving up Pam and Charles's third lot of the day - it's the silver plated meat dish cover.
Must start the bidding at £20, 20 is bid, get bidding - 22, 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38 against you.
Internet bid's at 42.
Keep going.
42 on the internet against you.
Going to sell to the internet then for £42.
Oh.
VO: The auctioneer was right about the cover not fetching much.
Well people just don't entertain the same way these days!
Now, Rudi and James are looking for top brass here for their trombone.
50 I've got, at £50, £50 now in the back of the room.
CH: Well done.
JB: Well done.
55 on the internet.
£60 against you, at 60 now, it's in the room at 60.
Go on.
65 on the internet.
70 I've got in the room now.
At 75 now, at 75, 85 now, jumping big.
Yes!
Go on, go on.
£85, any advances now?
Are we all done at £85.
Steady work, steady work.
Well done, brilliant.
VO: It's all about the bees and honey - money - with Pam and Charles's Staffordshire watering can.
Shall we say about £50 to start?
Come on, please.
Please!
50 anywhere?
Nice thing for £50.
40 if you like.
Thank you, sir.
Straight in at £40.
Well that's good.
Keep going, keep going.
42, 45, at 45 now.
Any advances at 45?
Keep going.
Seems cheap to me at £45.
48, fresh bidder, thank you.
£50, 50 bid, at 50 now.
Are we all done then?
Last opportunity then.
CH: One more.
PAUL: At £50.
I always thought it was too expensive PS: but never mind.
RW: There wasn't any online.
VO: Next up is Rudi's cricket ball... ..which he got with pure charm for free.
Please note, ladies and gentlemen, this has been specially signed by Rudolph Walker as well, so there we are.
Where shall we meet for this?
Straight in at shall we say £20 to start?
22 on the internet, at £22, 25 I have.
Thank you, sir.
In the room at 25.
Well done, sir.
At 25 in the room now, 28 against you, sir.
£30.
It's all pure profit.
At 30 with you, sir.
32, back on the internet at 32.
The signed ball we sell, the hammer's up at £32.
RW: Wow!
JB: Well done.
PS: Well done.
CH: Well done, Rudi.
Oh, wow!
VO: Very smooth, Rudi - very smooth!
Charles and Pam's magnifying glass needs to make something here.
Shall we say about £20 a start?
20 I have, 22 straight in, 22 online, 25 - it's all on the internet at the moment, at £25 bid.
At £25, last opportunity, ladies and gentlemen.
The hammer's up at £25.
JB: Well done.
CH: Thank you very much.
PS: That's helped us a little bit.
VO: It's James & Rudi's last lot of the day - their rather pricey 1800s barometer.
Good luck, Rudi.
This is your big moment, OK. Shall we say about 120 to start?
120 I'm bid, 130 on the internet straight in.
140 coming in at the back there, 140.
Well done.
Goes to online 150, 160, 170 on the internet.
Any advances at 170?
180, 180 I've got.
Yes!
Yes!
190, back on the internet at 190.
£190, are we all done now?
Last opportunity then and I'm selling at £190.
JB: Well done, well done.
RW: That's not bad.
It's a profit.
It's a profit.
VO: Oh, it's turned out nice!
Ha!
James's hunch on the barometer was spot on!
Well done.
Well done.
Well done, Rudi.
VO: The clock was Charles and Pam's biggest buy.
The auctioneer loves it and if the room does too they could still come out on top.
Just believe in it.
Shall we say about 150 to start?
150 I've got, 160 straight in.
At 160, 170 back of the room.
PAUL: At 170, 180 now, at £180.
CH: Keep going.
Keep going.
Last opportunity at... 190, just coming in against you online.
At 190 now.
200 back online.
At £200, the bid's online at 200, I shall sell now then, last opportunity then at £200.
Internet bid at £200.
Oh, you've done it.
VO: Unlucky!
Despite a valiant effort there from Pam and Charles, today's winners are Rudi and James.
Well done.
Well done.
VO: After paying auction costs, selective shoppers Pam and Charles made a loss of £26.90 so end their road trip with a total of £373.10 VO: Rudi and James meanwhile did rather better.
After auction costs they made a profit of £66.94.
Yes the silver-tongued Rudi, together with local lad James, finish their road trip with £466.94 - what a team, eh!
VO: All the money generated by our teams will go to Children In Need.
Well done.
We congratulate you.
What am I gonna get for this?
(THEY LAUGH) I'm the loser, I'll just go away and sulk!
Give me some love.
You deserve it, you really do.
Well done, sir, you did very, very well.
All the best.
Thank you.
VO: Well it's been emotional, but all good things must come to an end.
Go through here, James.
Wait, just a moment.
Thank you, sir.
Bye-bye.
Bye!
Steady ladies, steady ladies.
RW: When you're doing the driving, do I have to hold on to anything at all?
PS: Just be a navigator please.
RW: I can lead you astray then.
PS: Twas ever thus.
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