VO: The nation's favorite celebrities... Wow.
VO: ..paired up with an expert... Ow.
Ow.
Get it sorted.
VO: ..and a classic car.
She's beautiful.
We're steaming.
VO: Their mission - to scour Britain for antiques.
Is that antique?
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
VO: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.
(GAVEL) VO: But it's no easy ride...
There's a dog chasing us!
VO: Who will find a hidden gem?
I love that.
VO: Who will take the biggest risk?
Ah!
VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?
Yeah, uh, OK, I know what that means.
Woo-hoo!
VO: There will be worthy winners...
Yes!
VO: ..and valiant losers.
Disaster.
VO: Put your pedal to the metal.
Let's go shopping.
Woo-hoo!
VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!
VO: Ha-ha, what fun!
MUSIC: "Heatwave" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas VO: Welcome to Yorkshire, God's own country, and birthplace to one half of today's heavenly duo.
I am on home turf, so I suppose it gives me a slight advantage, as in I know the surroundings.
You know the shops, you know the people.
Everybody knows everybody up north.
I'm big in Yorkshire, so everyone will help me out.
VO: Today's celebrities are Mark Rhodes and Sam Nixon.
Sam and Mark or 'Smark' to give them their collective noun, both first found fame on ITV's Pop Idol in 2003.
I'm sorry, I didn't know it would rain.
No, I think that's bird poo.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Cor blimey.
The fellows have carved a niche for themselves as award-winning presenters on British children's television.
The thing you don't know is that we are very very very close... Go on.
..to my mum and dad's caravan.
Oh wow, shall we pop in and have a cup of tea?
No, absolutely not.
They hate you.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: I think we've got a right couple of mischief makers here!
MARK: What are you hoping our experts can help us with?
Everything.
(LAUGHS) It's not vague then.
During this whole process, you absolutely go with whatever they say.
What if we go rogue and it pays off, though?
Literally pays off.
Well, that's another thing.
They might sack the experts and we'll be doing it next series.
VO: Well, these two better get their CVs up to date then.
What we've got is a car from the 60s, a man from the 70s, and a girl from the 80s.
Oh, yeah.
Is that right?
Yeah, you got it.
Oh, yes.
There we go.
VO: It is indeed.
The car from the 60s, when seatbelts weren't mandatory, is a 1960 two door Morris Minor convertible.
The man from the 70s is auctioneer Charles Hanson, and the girl from the 80s is antiques and art expert Natasha Raskin-Sharp.
NATASHA: One of them is younger than the other, Sam.
In fact, we are almost exactly the same age.
And just like Sam and Mark, I think there are a few years between you and I, you know.
Yeah so you're almost saying the elder statesmen, a la Mark and Hanson.
Need to really sort of bind together, and...
I think the way that I would put it is young versus old.
VO: That's a bit rude Natasha!
Our stars with £400 each to spend, are currently driving a 1966 mark two Jag.
The perfect getaway car for smash and grab raids on local antiques dealers.
It is a classic car.
I don't understand any of these buttons.
Don't touch that!
(LAUGHS) VO: Careful now!
Time for Smark to meet 'Chatasha' or is it 'Narles'?
Here we are, Natasha.
NATASHA: There they are.
Nice car.
Yeah.
CHARLES: You got style.
You got style!
Sam, great to see you.
Good seeing you.
How you doing, you alright?
Sam.
Mark, good seeing you.
Good to meet you.
Oh my goodness.
I apologize for our car, it's a bit outdated.
It's lovely!
A bit like me.
I'm not really 'now', but you guys are, eh?
It's funny you should mention that, not being now, because we were just in the car, and Charles is a bit older than me, I'm a bit younger, and you're the older aren't you, Mark?
I'm a bit older.
I think we should stick together.
And we're in blue.
Yeah.
The young 'uns against the old 'uns.
(LAUGHS) Is that what we're going with then?
That's how it is, yeah.
Well, no, we'll do that.
It will be the senior statesmen against the young, and maybe out.
Well it is an antiques show, I think we're alright.
Well, you definitely have an advantage with Charles.
(LAUGHS) Go on, guys.
We'll see you in a bit then.
NATASHA: And it begins.
MUSIC: "Dancing in the Street" by Martha and the Vandellas They're in the way.
(CAR HORN) Get out of the way!
Alright, alright.
VO: So it's young versus old, team Snatasha versus team Chamark.
Goodness me.
Oh dear.
Let's roll!
So in 2003, when you did Pop Idol, before you and Mark became such best friends, you were rivals really?
We were, yeah.
And that was, I guess, the last time you were rivals.
Because ever since you've always been on the same team.
Proper rivals, yeah.
We just got on really well, and it's just wonderful that we can actually say that we've had a career together, and shared it all.
He's kind of like my little brother.
So all these years that you've been working together, across all those various roles, has the word 'antiques' ever cropped up?
Absolutely not.
(LAUGHS) Like we have travelled, especially in the UK, up and down this country.
But no.
This is it.
This is it.
VO: There's a first time for everything!
VO: Our team's trip finishes at auction in Darlington, County Durham, but kicks off today in the Yorkshire seaside town of Bridlington.
Or 'Brid' as the locals call it.
VO: Our first shop for Sam and Natasha is the Georgian Antique Centre and Tea Rooms.
Very youthful.
Right, the shop's just behind us, actually.
Nice.
This is it, Sam.
Let's do it.
Your first foray into antique buying.
I'm excited.
I promise you, you're going to be OK. (LAUGHS) VO: So, what can long-time-watcher, first-time-buyer Sam spot in here?
You see, when I'm faced with a room like this, I know I'm definitely overwhelmed, so you must be.
Oh wow, yeah.
Not half.
Must be, must be hard to dust this place.
(THEY LAUGH) I don't think that people really worry about that sort of thing.
I must admit, the old dolls things catch my eye.
But maybe that's because my daughter's got a dolls house.
These are really sweet.
I mean, it's difficult to assess the age without handling them.
Certainly if it's not modern reproduction miniatures, then it's in an older style.
Yeah.
But they are quite sweet, if they are older pieces.
Yeah.
Oh well, let's bear it in mind, because it's quite unusual.
I wouldn't have pegged you for dolls house furniture.
Me neither, to be honest.
But there you go.
OK. VO: OK, anything else?
Oh my goodness me.
(LAUGHS) Scary mannequin boy.
I don't know what I'm thinking, if you were to take that to an auction, would people react in the same way that you just did?
Yeah... We're definitely not taking that.
Actually, the more you look at him, he's quite finely painted.
No, he'll come to life.
He'll come to life and kill you.
Alright.
OK, OK. VO: Crikey!
So where have the others got to?
They've hit the Yorkshire roads on their way to their first shop.
It's interesting actually, that...that I've got you, because I think...
I think we're a good mix.
We're a good mix, yeah.
Because we both like our sport.
I think the only concern is I support Derby County, and you're a wandering Wolverhampton Wanderers fan.
I am, I am.
Doesn't matter.
It's alright.
It's alright, we can...we can, eh, you know, gloss over this.
That's it.
We can dribble, we can play a one-two.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
Let's do some buying.
VO: Yeah, Charles and Mark's first chance to spend some of their £400 is in the market town of Driffield, which means "manured field" in old Anglo-Saxon, so watch out for your feet.
Anyway, they've come to Phil Edmond Antiques.
Now, about the antiques boat trip?
Oh, dear.
Dare I say, all aboard, hey.
Yeah.
Shall we get in?
Go on, get inside.
Alright.
It looks, actually, it's a very sturdy boat.
I can only hope so.
It is!
I mean the exterior seems... (KNOCKS ON BOAT) quite watertight.
Good.
VO: Watertight on dry land.
You're an expert, Charles!
It's got the...it's got the windscreen.
So good.
Yeah, look, and it's oop!
Sorry!
Are you OK?
Stop!
(LAUGHS) Captain!
Hey!
Captain!
We're getting...
It's a bit rocky!
There's a lot of waves!
VO: Calm down, Charles, or he'll be land sick.
I don't know how we could actually attempt to sell it at auction.
I think that's the issue isn't it, really?
I think I'm gonna get off, I'm getting seasick.
I'll help you off.
Cheers, mate!
VO: Time to get serious about the shopping.
Back on dry land in Bridlington, Natasha and Sam are still on the hunt.
OK Sam, so you're new to this, but you probably know that the Chinese market is a really hot one.
Right.
So many of the items that were bought in China, brought over to the west, are now going back to China.
This, it's not hugely old.
Maybe 80 to 100 years old, but here you've got motifs that are definitely Chinese.
This key design at the bottom, this motif at the border, and then these two, these dogs of foo.
Whatever it is would have held something to be kept safe, because there's missing a lock.
VO: Perhaps for jewelry?
And I'm hoping that when we open it up, it's just as gorgeous as it is on the outside... Oh, wow.
..on the inside.
Look at that.
Isn't that lovely?
Now, it's the Meiji period, which is the last Emperor of China, and sort of falls in line with our Victorian, Edwardian period.
So, I just think... How do you remember all this stuff?
I don't know.
Maybe it's all wrong, Sam.
You've not been on your phone googling it, have you?
You've literally just come to this, and you know everything about it.
VO: Maybe she's just read the ticket, which also tells us the price on the cabinet is £84.
But the missing lock might allow some negotiating.
So let's get shop owner John over, shall we?
John, hello hello hello.
Do join us.
Now, we love this box.
It's a lovely thing isn't it?
Mm, yeah, really nice.
We're intrigued by it.
Sam is taking a bit of a leap of faith here, if we go for this.
We are aware of the fact that it's missing a lock.
Mmm.
We are pointing it out to you as our conduit to the dealer... OK. ..because we are hoping that you could maybe converse with them.
What we normally do is 10%.
OK.
If it's more than that we'd obviously have to ring him.
OK. What sort of money are you thinking of?
If he would go to 60, Sam, would you be comfortable with that?
Yeah, I think I would be comfortable with that, yeah.
OK. VO: While John tries to get hold of the dealer 13 miles away, have Charles and Mark found anything of interest?
Already... CHARLES: Yeah.
MARK: I kn...
I know that this is gonna be far too expensive.
Go on, tell me.
Just, this.
It's a gorgeous cabinet.
It's incredible.
If you sort of, I suppose if you think back to the Edwardian shops of 1910, this sort of bowed, beautifully made mahogany crafted cabinet, it's what you'd have seen.
What would I put in there?
I'd put like, put my socks in there or something, and my pants.
You know, so I can see where it is.
That's it, that's it.
You also see yourself, so when your pants are on, look in the mirror, and you know, swing the pants.
VO: An image to treasure forever, viewers.
But one thing I love are old books, and you never know what you might find in an old book.
Look at this.
Oh, wow.
All these different scenes, and they're really interesting.
They capture early aviation.
That's incredible.
There's Lawrence of Arabia.
Heard of him?
I have.
And his motorcycle.
That's great.
And that's history.
And there he is on his motorcycle in the 1920s.
Just, oh, that is fantastic.
It's a scrapbook, it's someone's love.
You never know (BLOWS) you know, (SLAPS BOOK) what you might find.
Look at the dust there.
Wow.
You never know what you might find.
80 years of dust.
Exactly.
Sometimes with antiques and collectibles, we say find another one , and you won't.
So to... Ah, that's interesting.
So to an aviation enthusiast, this is a real archive.
We've come in a car, we've seen a boat, and now we're talking planes.
It's fantastic, yeah.
Isn't it?
VO: What was that film?
Planes, boats and automobiles?
Anyway, the scrapbook's ticket price is £55.
Mental note.
OK. And I'm convinced that this sort of object at auction could do quite well.
It certainly won't nosedive.
OK, cool.
Shall we have a bit more of a look round, or... Get it?
Nosedive?
Ah.
(SIGHS) VO: Oh dear, oh dear.
Back in Brid, has dealer John spoken to the owner of the £84 jewelry cabinet?
Did you manage to get our man on the phone?
JOHN: I've spoken to the dealer.
NATASHA: Uh-huh.
Uh, and we'd normally give you 10% but he said he would do it for 68, which is about 20%.
OK.
If that would help.
It's very decent.
I think that is very decent, actually.
OK, so £68.
Mm-hm.
Are you here to gamble?
I think on this, I think I am.
OK.
I think it is really really nice, and it's very different.
VO: That's Sam's first ever antique purchase, the Chinese cabinet, costing 68 of his original £400.
OK. Yeah.
The precious cargo.
Let's do it.
OK, and we're off.
VO: In Driffield, Charles and Mark still haven't made a purchase, but the signs are good.
What I do love are all these enamel signs on the walls.
I love this big yellow sign here.
Yeah.
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
It's got the wrong day on, though.
If it was big Friday windup, then that'd be...that'd be a lot better.
Oh yeah, of course.
I like it.
But this could be a link.
Yeah.
This could be the Friday wind up, working into... ping!
The big Sunday dispatch.
I think it's great, and these enamel signs, I mean they are, dare I say it, like hot cakes now.
They are so popular.
Yeah.
1920s is its date, but it's so rich and it's so yellow, and so you.
Oh.
(LAUGHS) Mental note?
It's the lighting.
That's it.
(LAUGHS) VO: Ah, the famous Hanson charm, eh?
The ticket price on the sign is £165.
A possible.
Anything else in here?
So we've been shopping, we've seen many things.
I think it's that time, you know.
Are we doing it?
I think it's that time.
OK. To speak to the dealer.
Now, you enjoy a good old haggle, don't you?
I love a haggle, love a haggle.
I don't know what I'm doing like, but I'll have a good haggle.
VO: Nothing new for this show.
The man you'll be haggling with is Phil, of Phil Edmond's Antiques.
Remember, Mark still has all of his original £400.
Alright, Phil.
Hello there.
How are you mate, are you alright?
We've obviously had a look round.
We have seen the sign, enamel sign, the Sunday dispatch.
We like it a lot.
Fresh in yesterday.
Nobody else has seen it.
What we are seeing now is we ask what the death is.
It's called the death.
Ah, the death.
OK, what's the death?
PHIL: 145.
CHARLES: And the scrapbook?
55 quid.
The death?
50 quid.
Oh, alright.
If we bought the two together Phil, that makes 145, plus 45 is 190.
It's a gamble, but they're quality items.
Yeah, shall we do it?
You've deathed me Phil, you've deathed me.
VO: Well, Mark might have only saved £30, but he has added a new word, deathed me , to the English language.
Ah.
We did it.
Lovely.
We are off and running.
Let's do it.
Fantastic.
VO: Team Snatasha, meanwhile, are now on the road to Scarborough, and comparing partners.
Mark, Mark is very competitive.
If I do lose, I want to be a good loser.
Do you know what I mean?
So then if you're really competitive, like Mark is, sometimes it's hard to smile if you've lost.
Can I tell you something?
Charles Hanson is so competitive.
Oh is he?
They'll be great together then.
(LAUGHS) They're gonna be a nightmare.
They're gonna be a nightmare.
We'll be fine.
We'll be quietly cool.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I think.
That's the best way to be.
VO: Scarborough is the biggest seaside resort in Yorkshire.
And up until the 18th century, it had a six week fair celebrated in the famous ballad.
But will anything be going for a song in The Vintage Window?
Here to help is Fay.
Hi, thank you so much for having us along.
We won't pester you for now, we'll just... OK. .. get rifling, is that cool?
Yeah.
Wonderful, yeah.
VO: It's always good to get rifling, it's nearly as good as rummaging.
I don't know.
I'm looking around, I'm looking around.
I'm trying to find something of which Mark would be super jealous.
Right.
I'd love to make Mark really jealous.
See, when I first came in, I spotted that.
And Mark... OK, tabletop soccer.
Mark loves his football, and I must admit when I saw that, I thought of Mark straight away.
But I don't know if that's anything... Do we just have the box, or is the game inside?
Oh yeah, the content's inside.
Game's inside.
I think it's all complete as well.
Let's get it out and have a look.
OK...
So...
When Mark and I first moved to London... Uh-huh?
..15 years ago, we lived in a flat together.
And we had a football table.
I think we were trying to be Joey and Chandler.
I was just about to say, did they think they were in Friends?
We were trying to be Joey and Chandler.
OK, so you've kind of got everything there.
What it doesn't have is a huge amount of age.
But this is probably 60s, I would say.
I think it's before the 70s.
I mean, Fay, looking at you.
What's the price?
What's the price on it?
You're not gonna believe this price.
Here we go.
(LAUGHS) It's £25!
OK, so we're not exactly splashing the cash.
£25, we can deal with that full price.
What do you think?
I quite...I quite like it.
I think it's quite cool.
Yeah.
Shall we do that sort of online thing, where you put it in the basket, I think definitely.
Yeah, let's put it in the basket.
You've not gone to checkout?
Let's not check out just yet.
I like that.
Yeah, OK. Definitely.
Get it in the basket.
OK, cool.
Would you mind, terribly, keeping that aside for us?
Of course, of course.
VO: OK, it's on the subs bench.
Anything that might go straight into the first team?
How about some lovely silver plate, for example?
I quite like these, Sam.
What's that?
These little candle holders, which I think are really delicate and cute.
Obviously, they're made to look like kind of floating lilies, and actually, they've got lovely attention to detail.
And if you flip them over, I don't see a silver mark, but there is a mark.
WMF.
Oh, nice.
Which is a German maker.
Now, Fay is listening in the background and she's gonna say "that's not how you pronounce it".
But WMF stands for... Ah, it's really hard, it's like... Come on, give it to me.
Everybody at home is wanting you to say this.
Just say it.
Oh, Tim Wonnacott, save me with your voiceover.
It's something like... Verner, Verner, Markin, Barker, Barkin...
Right, it's definitely not that.
VO: Well, I think the term you're looking for, Natasha, is Wuerttembergische Metallwarenfabrik.
Barken, steminstinken, and auf wiedersehen, pet.
AKA, WMF.
What that name indicates, although I can't pronounce it, is quality.
And at £30, I think they are just lovely.
Well, you've been very passionate about it.
Just can't pronounce the name.
(LAUGHS) What's the name again?
You know it, right?
It's...
I just need to hear it from you first.
It's WMF.
VO: Wuerttembergische Metallwarenfabrik.
But I tell you what, I think they're really cute.
I think they're really cute.
Alright, well, let's... Again, let's maybe put them in the shopping basket then.
VO: OK, that's two definitely maybes.
Now, Natasha did spot a strawberry dish when she first came in.
Don't you think that's divine?
I do, I love it.
Absolutely gorgeous.
So unusual.
OK, so here we have a date.
Oh yeah, wow.
1898, we are right at the end of Victoria's reign.
And to think that someone, Miss Wilkie to be exact, from the evening class, obviously did something good in the evening class.
And she didn't get a watch.
She didn't get, I don't know, a trophy.
She got a strawberry dish.
(GASPS) Maybe she was cooking.
It feels like it'd be that, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Let's paint a picture of Miss Wilkie.
Was she good looking?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Was she wealthy?
No.
No.
And therefore, she needed to learn how to cook for herself.
There we go.
Imagine if that was filled with beautiful, red, ripe, strawberries, in the middle of a table, I think it would be very much a talking piece.
It would be like "that is awesome, what is that?"
Where it's from.
And I think from that point of view it is lovely.
Do you reckon it'd sell?
I think it would be very popular at auction, because it's so quaint.
£60 is the price.
That would be too much for auction.
Are you not doing that half price sale today?
(LAUGHING) No, I'm afraid not.
I could have sworn you said you were doing half price.
(LAUGHS) Any leeway on the price?
There's definitely movement in the price.
How about if I took a tenner off, and made it 50 quid?
45?
OK. Deal.
Thank you.
How did that happen?
OK. Fine.
VO: Nice work, Sam!
Now there's another two items left in the basket to decide upon.
The table soccer for £25, and for £30 the German candle holders from... Verbertenmeckenwertle... oh, god.
How is it you pronounce that again?
(LAUGHS) VO: I just told you!
No one wants to pronounce WMF.
OK. Metalfabriken.
I think that's the MF.
Oh right, OK. VO: Achtung!
Schnell, schnell, Tasha!
I think I'm trying to convince you about these candlestick holders, and... You are, but...
I'm willing...I'm willing to take a hit on this one.
I think it might be a stretch.
And we do have a bit of silver plate, with Miss Wilkie's strawberry dish.
True.
So if you want to go for this tabletop soccer set, I am behind you, in formation, listening to the manager.
Shall we go strawberry dish and soccer set?
Strawberry...
I never thought I'd hear that, but yeah.
Let's do that.
Shall we do it?
Yeah.
OK. Fay, another sale.
So we owe you what?
A grand total of 70?
70.
Right.
Sam's got the cash.
60, 70.
There you go.
Thank you so much, Fay.
Thank you very much.
VO: It's back of the net for the soccer game at £25 and Miss Wilkie's strawberry dish at 45.
That leaves team Snatasha with 262 of their £400 left.
VO: Let's see what Mark and Charles are up to.
Now, Mark's been known to hold a tune, so they've made their way to the old fishing village of Filey, to find out about a unique piece of musical and maritime history.
Hi Robert!
VO: Robert Hartley is a local historian with a keen interest in the mercantile sailing vessels known as tall ships.
These vessels would've once sailed up and down this coast in the 19th century.
Who worked on these ships, Robert?
People of all nationalities.
Really?
From all over the country, because crew died, and left the ships, and the captains had to find other crew quickly.
So that meant that in any ship, there would be a mixture of cultures and religions and languages.
And it was important that there was something that would bind the crew together.
And what was that?
It was the working song, which became known as the shanty.
VO: Different shanties with different rhythms were used for different tasks, like raising the anchor or hoisting the sails.
No matter what your language, you knew the job that was to be done.
The songs used a call and response system, thought to have come from the African slave trade.
So Robert, tell me, who coordinated all the work on the ship?
It was a very important man called the shanty man.
Right.
He had to keep rhythm, timing, choose the right speed of the song for the work that was involved, and keep control of the men.
VO: As well as keeping the men motivated for work, the shanties could help combat isolation and depression caused by months at sea.
They also helped preserve maritime legends.
Are shanty songs still being used today?
Not in ships, because all the tall ships have gone, and the royal navy doesn't approve of shanties because they encourage bad behavior.
Some shanties, of course, can be made family friendly.
Others remain in their earthiness that they had originally.
And I'd like you to try some with me.
VO: Robert, are you leading our boys astray?
Time to haul anchor and head for a local hostelry for some singing.
Heave away!
# I heard, I heard the old man say, up!
# John Kanaka naka tulay ay!
# Today, today is Road Trip day, up!
# John Kanaka naka tulay ay!
# VO: Uh-oh!
Look who's here!
# Oh, tulay ay!
Up!
# They look like a terrible New Kids on the Block.
No, they're the old kids.
# Oh, tulay ay!
Up!
# (LAUGHING) This is rousing.
# Oh haul away, and haul away, up!
# John Kanaka naka tulay ay!
# I love that Charles is wearing a suit and a tie!
He looks crazy.
He's the only one dancing, though.
(LAUGHS) He's getting well into it now!
# Oh-h-h-h!
# Tulay ay!
John Kanaka naka tulay ay!
# Woo!
(CLAPPING) You're through to boot camp!
(APPLAUSE) VO: It's not quite Pop Idol, but there is a link.
The shanties took the rhythm of African work songs sung by the slaves loading cotton in America, and combined them with melodies of the white European sailors.
This would lead to blues, country and eventually rock and roll.
It was truly international.
You must be John Ka-knackered after that!
VO: Hey, they've only just started, Sam!
# What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
# VO: I think the singing may go on until the sun is well over the yardarm.
Let's just leave our landlubbing teams there, shall we?
And, sleep tight.
VO: Ha!
It's a new dawn and a new day on the Road Trip.
So mate, how was it yesterday with lovely Natasha?
Really good.
Yeah?
She's lovely.
You and Mark, are you a new duo?
We're just like brothers now.
Has it changed you?
We're the brotherhood going on, on the Antiques Road Trip.
CHARLES: You bought a few things?
NATASHA: We did.
We ended up buying three, as it so happens.
One of the items I bought, I thought I'd give you a sneak preview.
It's on the back seat.
I think we've gone big, we've gone big with the first two.
OK. And there is one underneath that rug.
It's a manky old book!
No, no, go on, bring it over.
Oh dear, this looks old.
What are you saying?
Well, antiques, innit?
Do you know Miss Wilkie?
No.
Oh, you're about to meet her.
Oh really?
Oh, I say!
Oh goodness me.
Oh, I like this.
Is she not gorgeous?
You've just looked at it and gone, What is this?
.."oh, it's a manky old book".
Have a look inside.
It's a scrapbook.
Oh, wow!
VO: To recap what else our teams bought from their original £400, Sam and Natasha spent £138 on three items... Are you here to gamble?
I think, on this, I think I am.
VO: ..leaving them with £262 for the day ahead.
Mark and Charles spent £190 on two items...
It's so rich, and so yellow, and so you.
It's the lighting.
(LAUGHS) VO: ..which gives them 210 to spend today.
But what will they make of each other's boot booty?
NATASHA: Good morning!
CHARLES: Good morning, gents.
The sun is shining as well.
They look too cool in that car.
On the chosen boot.
That boot is the way to glory.
We will see.
We will see, Charles Hanson.
CHARLES: Good morning!
NATASHA: Guten morgen!
SAM: Oh, sunny!
NATASHA: Partner, how are you?
CHARLES: Good morning.
Alright, how are you guys?
How's the boot, more like?
(LAUGHS) Rich!
SAM: Just you wait and see.
That is my rich man.
MARK: How you doing, alright?
Charles is desperate to see what we bought, Sam.
(LAUGHS) Is he really?
But it's now the time, I think, for you and Sam to really show us your boot haul.
Oh, want to see ours first?
MARK: Yeah.
NATASHA: OK, cool.
CHARLES: Definitely.
NATASHA: Right, here we go.
Get ready.
We're starting off with... No, I don't believe it!
Ah, that is so cool.
And here we have... Oh, it's complete as well.
Look at that!
I love it.
Look at this.
That's brilliant.
We've got a ball, we've got the goals, we've got some age.
I reckon you probably paid... what's it worth?
MARK: I dunno.
SAM: How much do you reckon?
I would say probably... £80?
I reckon you paid... 55.
(LAUGHS) How much?
Sam, I'll leave this to you.
We paid... £25.
Ah, no!
Ah!
Get it away!
Oh no.
VO: Now, have the guys got anything booty-licious?
Now look at this.
I'm excited.
The Big Sunday Dispatch.
I thought we'd branch out on our show.
LAUGHTER The Friday Wind-up!
Exactly!
Exactly.
What do you think?
Well, I think you've had an absolute shocker there!
Whoa!
Cuz it's such a hot market, I'd value it at 50 to 80.
Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot.
It cost us a humble sum of 145.
MARK: 145.
SAM: 145?!
Yeah.
You absolute idiots!
On that note, I think you've got some work to do.
Sam, we're cool, let's go.
Yeah, let's have a lovely day.
VO: Well, that was a frank exchange of views.
Take a breath.
Seriously, take a breath.
Honestly.
I'm worried.
I'm worried, Charles.
I'm worried.
Come on.
That sign...
It's expensive...
I mean, if they'd not spent as much as what they'd spent, I think yeah, it might be alright.
But to me, they have gone nuts!
CHARLES: We are football mad.
And yes, they delivered, on a plate, that delightful game.
I thought they were a bit harsh on ours, though.
Do you know...
Weren't they?!
..could not believe it.
You know what...
So harsh!
It's like, I've had my half-time break, I've had my oranges.
I'm really focused now, and the adrenaline's pumping, and I hope it feels the same for you.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm ready and raring to go.
VO: The first chance for revenge for Charles and Mark is the conservation town of Helmsley.
The Romans and Vikings had settlements here, but it was the Normans who established it as a market town - a tradition that continues to this day.
There we go, Room For Antiques, room for us.
Oh, thanks very much.
Come on, it's time for comeback time.
After you.
Ah, lovely.
VO: There's plenty to look at in this place, but what can our chaps find that might make a profit at auction?
Eh, Charles?
If by some miracle we do win, maybe have a glass of champagne in there?
What do you reckon?
That's quite small.
I mean would you seriously drink champagne from that?
I'd have about like 30 of them, in the time.
It's a nice glass though, eh?
It's... yeah.
VO: It's a very nice glass, Mark, with a ticket price of £90.
What we've got, Mark, here, is what we call a footrim, or the folded foot.
Can you see all this wear?
Yeah.
That's where it slid.
"Hey, give me a drink", and it's gone across a table, and it's scratched and scratched and scratched.
And that's a sure sign of an 18th century foot.
So, you know, you're hitting the antique.
I'm learning.
I'm learning, you see.
I just saw, I just saw a drinking glass.
But it's a beautiful, 18th century, 1780s thereabouts.
Just a little wine glass.
Something to think about, I suppose.
Mental note.
VO: That's one possible - anything else to stimulate the mind?
Oh wow.
Charles?
Yes.
Come and have a look at this.
Oh, I don't believe it.
It's almost the grass, hollow turf of football.
Wow.
No way.
Subbuteo.
Classic.
I suppose these look to be maybe, what, 70s?
Yeah.
Well that's, Subbuteo was...massive then, wasn't it?
Yeah.
There's a Subbuteo catalogue in it.
Oh, that's nice.
OK, look, we thought these were maybe 70s.
Yeah.
And this is dated 1971.
Oh, OK. And this was the year Derby County won the whole first division, my team.
MARK: Wow.
CHARLES: Good times.
Wow.
It's gotta be significant.
I wasn't even born, but I remember it well... (LAUGHS) ..emotionally.
Let's have a look.
Will it be the gold.
That's Stoke.
I'm guessing that's Stoke City.
Or Sunderland maybe?
Or Sunderland.
Ah, so we're going to Darlington, that's very near Sunderland.
That's not a bad idea.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you reckon Steve would do a deal on the lot?
CHARLES: Steve!
STEVE: Yes?
Hello!
Are you a football fan?
Yes, I am.
Who's your team?
A Spurs fan.
Do they all come in as one collection, Steve?
Yes.
They were mine.
They weren't!
Are they yours?!
Emotionally, it must be quite hard.
It is quite hard.
But then, I can't keep everything.
No, good lad.
How much can the whole lot be?
I can do them for 150 for the whole lot.
I think in my eyes, in the auction market, it'd probably want to be less than £100.
Oh, really?
So I think we might be out.
Unfor...Is there much mileage?
Unless you reduce the number of teams you have.
Would we want to put anything else with Sunderland, do you think?
Maybe another team.
We can say Darlington and Sunderland... Yeah.
CHARLES: ..here we come.
MARK: Yeah.
With maybe this little Subbuteo catalogue as well.
What would be the best price?
I could do £35.
Would you do the whole lot for £25?
That's pushing it a bit.
I could do 30.
VO: What's that?
There's some people on the pitch.
When you think it's all over... ..it is now.
Shake his hand.
Yeah.
Thanks mate.
You're welcome.
See, but there was one other thing as well.
VO: I thought you said it was all over, Charles?
Obviously at the final whistle, wouldn't mind a glass of champagne, would we?
Oh, I'd love that.
I'd love that.
And we saw a very nice wine glass, with a facet cut stem, on that nice big foot.
Yes.
How much could it be?
That one would be £70.
I was hoping you might say, maybe £60.
That's very close.
Is it?
I can do 65.
Really?
Yes.
Um... shall we toss a coin?
Shall we toss a coin and see?
Let's toss a coin.
It it's heads, it's 60.
Tails, 65.
65.
Is that OK with you?
So heads, 60... got it!
60, yes!
Are you happy with that?
OK. Are you sure?
I've gotta be.
VO: That's the wine glass for £60, and the Subbuteo set for 30.
Lordy, that glass won't last long in there!
VO: Elsewhere in Yorkshire, Natasha is finding out about Sam's passion for growing his own veg.
I've had the allotment for a few years, but obviously with having young children, it's taken me a little while to get on top of it, and it's all sort of trial and error.
My wife keeps calling me the insecure gardener.
(LAUGHS) Cuz I constantly plant things and then worry that they're not gonna grow.
I'm having a go at sprouts, cuz it'd a bit of a dream to be, Christmas dinner to be my sprouts on the table.
That's such a British thing, isn't it?
Yeah.
"Welcome to my home, I grew these sprouts, don't you know?"
VO: And so, to find out more about the history of the modest allotment, Sam and Natasha are travelling to Malton, and the Eden Camp Living History Museum.
They're taking a trip back in time to find out how growing our own veg helped win the war by saving a nation from starvation.
But first, they need to get in.
Hi there!
Can I see your papers, please?
I have a driving license.
Will that be OK?
OK, fine.
NATASHA: Oh, he's so scary.
Don't look him in the eye, don't look him in the eye.
VO: One man you can look in the eye, though, is Jonny Pye, camp archivist and our guide for the day.
In the 1930s then, as a nation, were we up on our growing of fruit and vegetables?
Yeah, certainly.
I mean, in one respect, we were a thriving farming industry.
But in the other respect, we were still importing around 70% of everything that we ate.
VO: And when World War II started, German blockades and U-boats sinking ships resulted in food imports being halved.
By 1941, there was a very real risk of Britain being starved out the war.
How was this problem solved, then?
Basically, the government set up the Ministry of Food, and they started a large propaganda campaign, Dig for Victory.
If you wanna see some of the results, follow me.
SAM: Yeah.
NATASHA: Yeah.
Sure, please.
VO: The Dig for Victory campaign asked the people of Britain to turn over any spare ground, from the gardens of the aristocracy to the window boxes of the working class, for growing fruit and veg.
So this is our Dig for Victory garden.
Looking ace.
Strawberries, to go with our dish.
Yes.
We bought a strawberry dish, Jonny, you see.
Oh, nice.
Is this just like your allotment?
(LAUGHS) Not quite.
I wish.
I wish mine was as vibrant as this.
This is great.
VO: Gardens like this made the campaign a massive success.
Allotments, where you're allotted a piece of ground in a large communal garden, had existed before the war but doubled during it to over one and a half million.
And the number of private gardens growing produce grew by two million to more than five million.
If you were at home, you weren't over fighting, your family was maybe at war, this is what you could do.
You could contribute to the war effort by growing your own food.
VO: Growing your own became a national craze, and gardening programs got millions of listeners on BBC Radio.
Let's see if a spot of planting might get our ratings up.
So we've got a few courgette plants here.
Lovely.
We've got a trowel.
SAM: Nice.
JONNY: There we go.
Ladies first.
OK. OK OK OK. What do I do?
Where would you like these courgettes?
Just anywhere down there's fine.
So I just dig a little, dig for victory.
Sam and I are looking to be victorious, so... Just pop one of them out.
Sam, how am I doing?
Good.
Wonderful.
Right.
I don't want to, like, kind of drown it.
So, just, is this right?
Yeah, it looks about right.
Give it a good firm patting with your hands.
Go on, get your hands mucky.
Oh, right.
I was hoping you wouldn't say that.
VO: But once you grew all that veg, you needed to make something with it.
With the start of rationing in 1940, people had to get creative.
Dairy products were rationed, sugar was rationed - no ice cream.
You know, so what could you have instead?
We had lots of carrots, so carrots on a stick.
And there you go.
Ha.
That's a disappointment.
On a hot summer's day, ah.
Here's a carrot.
I might try that with my daughter.
You've been a good girl, yeah, carrot on a stick.
VO: The main shortage was meat, so a famous solution was invented to replace the meat pie, with the Woolton pie.
Named after Lord Woolton, head of the Ministry of Food.
Here's Jonny Pye's Woolton Pie.
There we go.
Would you like to dig in?
Yes please.
That does really smell good.
Mm.
I never thought I'd enjoy a pie without any meat in it at all.
But that is nice.
There you go.
So what exactly are we eating?
Basically it's all vegetables.
So there's no meat in there at all.
So you've just got a nice simple crust pastry, then you've got carrots.
You've got cauliflower.
A little bit of oatmeal just to thicken up as well.
Whatever you had available could go in the Woolton pie.
It's a veggie pie.
A veggie pie, yeah.
You know it was a success, this.
People started growing... Yeah, completely.
..their own fruit and vegetables.
They got the bug for it.
And it's...
I can totally see it, cuz I'm going through that myself, and the thought of bringing my own fruit and veg into the kitchen, doing something like that, is just...is just wicked.
VO: The legacy for Dig for Victory lived on after the war.
The combination of rationing and homegrown food saw arguably the healthiest diet the UK had ever had, and resulted in growth in height and weight for British children.
Perhaps the biggest legacy was turning us into a nation of growers and gardeners.
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Me too.
And this is... strangely delicious.
It's, er... well, it's a carrot on a stick, innit?
Let's be honest.
It's a beautiful day.
What better to cool you down than a carrot lollipop.
You ready for this?
(CRUNCHES CARROT) Ah, what's up, doc?
VO: Meanwhile, Charles and Mark are now making their way to their final shop in Pickering.
I think my tactics are... We said yesterday, let's go big.
And let's have a real go, because there's a big queue for quality.
I tell you what.
We've got that.
Sam hasn't yet.
OK, well that's good to know.
Because obviously, they seem to think they've got it in the bag.
They do.
That's it.
I'll have the confidence.
I like that.
VO: But the guys might be in for a surprise when they get there because Natasha and Sam have already made it to Selby Antiques.
NATASHA: I'll tell you what I don't see... SAM: Yeah?
..is a Jaguar.
True!
Let's get in there!
I think we might have pipped them to the post.
Come on!
VO: This place is run by Ray, and stacked to the gunnels with items.
But with Charles and Mark hot on your heels, I'd get stuck in quick.
Ah, too late.
They are here.
There we go.
They think it's all over.
Well, come on.
It might be.
It might be, now.
1760, 1780...
What?!
Here we go!
What are you doing here?
You can leave now.
NATASHA: So smug.
SAM: Oh come on.
You can leave now, cuz the antique ninjas are here.
So...
Antique ninjas?
Right.
Any more signs?
For £5,000?
I've got a sign for you.
(GASPS) Good.
Good sign.
MARK: Yeah.
SAM: Good sign.
This is turning nasty, guys.
We're gonna...we're gonna walk away.
OK, do that.
We're gonna try and get up on your lead.
That way.
Alright.
Hey, don't talk to Ray, he's ours.
VO: Oh, getting competitive, I like it.
But will either team spot anything they like?
From their starting £400, Sam and Natasha still have 262 left to spend.
Great.
Is anything catching your eye, if you want to splash some cash?
That clock looks nice.
Now, clocks, I am not your woman for clocks.
But, I'm pleased to say that it says on the label, an American clock.
Because for me, it doesn't look British at all.
It says "The New Wellington College, Sandhurst, England".
VO: Ooh, the inner workings of this clock were made in America, but it was cased in Victorian Britain.
It has a ticket price of £145.
I think that's mahogany.
And then we've got this painted scene that's painted on the reverse of the glass.
So... (CLOCK CHIMES) Oh.
I don't know if that's ours striking, there's clocks all around us.
Perhaps we should speak to Ray... Yeah, yeah.
..tap into his knowledge, and...see what he can do on the price.
Yeah yeah, true.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna leave the haggling to you this time, as well.
Ah.
Excuse me, Ray?
Hi.
Sorry, can we just borrow you for a second?
Yeah yeah, course you can.
Ray?
Righty-o.
Thank you for your help.
Sam here is attracted to this clock.
It's all about the price, Ray.
Oh, wait a minute.
I want Sam to do this.
Haha!
Sam's new to antiquing, so get in there.
Well first of all Ray, may I just say what a wonderful sweater vest that is you're wearing.
Thank you very much.
It's really really...
It makes your eyes pop.
Oh, right.
Yep.
Fancy giving us it for 100 quid?
A bit of flattery, right.
(LAUGHS) Well, 10%, 20% would be getting you right down there.
So...for you, right, I'll let you take that for 100.
Really?!
Oh my goodness.
I wish I'd gone for 90!
(LAUGHS) That was so easy!
No regrets, no regrets.
Ah well, wonderful.
Deal?
I think you should shake the man's hand.
Nice one.
Ray, thank you so much.
You're more than welcome.
VO: Ah, Sam's making this antiques game look too easy!
Let's see if Charles and Mark are finding it any tougher to spend their last £120.
What's quite interesting is this oval dish down here.
It looks to be something like, I don't know.
Like that?
I'm on board.
Yeah.
And what I like about this, look at this reeded rim.
The footrim's nice as well, but the marks are rubbed.
I'm fairly sure that's silver.
And it's almost weary.
It's been a long journey, but I think this could be our glimpse of silver... Love it.
..as our finale.
Love it.
That's our trophy.
That's our trophy boy.
VO: This silver dish is labeled as 1930s, but it might just be a bit older than that, possibly even Georgian.
Sadly the hallmarks have been rubbed, but it sports a ticket price of £155.
What kind of a deal can the guys get from Ray's assistant, Anna?
CHARLES: Hello.
ANNA: Hello.
Come and see us.
(LAUGHS) You alright?
Hi.
My wingman here, he found this gorgeous silver dish.
Yeah.
We like it a lot.
It's priced at 155.
What's the absolute death, here in North Yorkshire, you could do on this?
Because the hallmarks are rubbed, I can...
I could do it for a straight 100 for you.
CHARLES: Just like that?
ANNA: Just like that.
VO: Just like that.
It's a kind of magic.
MARK: Wow!
ANNA: (LAUGHS) £100.
We're 100, not out.
Shake her hand.
Shake her hand?
Yes.
Thank you Anna so much.
That's great.
So we owe you £100.
100.
Which leaves us £20 in the bank.
VO: I think that's got to be the deal of the trip - more than a third off.
Charles and Mark are done.
How about Tasha and Sam?
Well that's quite cute.
Oh Sam, this is so sweet, you're gonna like this.
OK, so... obviously it tells you on the top what it is.
It's for ink.
This is, of course, for travelling, so you've got a nice protective leather layer on the outside, and then ever so discreet.
It's very tactile, you just want to put it in your hand, and then you just... ding!
With one press of the thumb, it flips open, to reveal a nice interior.
VO: This dainty little Victorian travel inkwell is beautifully crafted.
Do you know what's good?
Original glass liner.
Wow.
So it's a lovely thing, to think that that glass, which even has a pontil mark on the bottom, so that was blown.
That tiny bit of glass was blown by a glassmaker, Oh, really?
..which is lovely.
The pontil mark is where it's broken off from the blower.
Right, OK.
Does it make you want to touch it and flip it open?
I must admit it is quite cool.
One thing I'm not seeing is a price.
Nope.
Neither do I.
So, shall we take it to Ray?
Yeah.
OK, keep a hold of it.
Let's go find Ray.
Ah.
Do you know, Ray, we were just coming to look for you.
This is quite handy.
So, a little tricky cuz there weren't a price on this, but we do really like that.
Lovely.
It's at... Again, a lovely piece.
Fresh in.
Oh, fresh to the market.
OK.
Right, a straight £30.
What do you think?
Well, I was potentially expecting a little bit more, so...
I'm gonna take it on this.
Deal.
Lovely.
Last deal of the day!
Ray, thank you.
I'll give you some money, Ray, cuz I've got it here and that's it, that's our last item.
Do you know the weight that's just been lifted off my shoulders, when you say that's us?
Great, thank you.
Cheers, Ray.
You're some guy.
Thank you.
Sam, we're done.
VO: With Sam's Victorian inkwell and clock bought for £130, both teams are finally finished buying, and now it's time for bidding.
Avanti to the auction!
It would be great for me to beat Charles, cuz... How many times have you beaten Charles?
Ever?
Em...
Sorry, that's such a nice cloud.
(LAUGHS) No!
This is the escape to victory.
Yep.
And I truly feel it's like the 70th minute, they think it's all over.
Well, they might think it is, but we know better.
Not yet.
VO: I think you mean the 90th minute, Charles.
How many times have you beaten anybody else on this show?
Oh look, did you see that... Oh my..!
Are you a loser?!
(STUTTERS) So nice to meet you.
have you not won yet?!
I think I've won once, I'm not sure, it's hard to remember.
Right, we're changing that.
It's a fog.
(LAUGHS) We're changing that.
VO: Good luck for the auction, then.
Sweet dreams.
VO: Now, would you Adam and Eve it?
It's the auction day.
CHARLES: It's very cozy.
To me, it feels like one lovely family outing.
Here we are, mum and dad, in the backseat.
Mum and dad?!
Yes.
I'm the youngest person here!
Yeah, but you're mature.
And you are antiquified, like me.
OK, so wait a minute.
We're mum and dad, and we have produced these two beautiful sons.
Aww, you're welcome.
Make us proud at the auction, Sam.
I will.
VO: After getting started at Bridlington in Yorkshire, our celebrities and experts are about to get auctioning in Darlington, County Durham.
Guys, am I right in saying this will be your first ever auction?
It's my first.
Yeah, it is my first.
Very very excited.
I'm excited.
VO: Darlo, as the locals call it, was of course the centre of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first passenger train service opened in 1825.
15 years later, our destination today, Thomas Watson Auctioneers, opened its doors, and is now the oldest auctioneers in the northeast.
NATASHA: We can do this.
Are you ready for this?
CHARLES: Oh yes!
MARK: We are.
Oh, I'm ready for it.
Sam, lead the way.
Let's do it.
Lead the way.
It's gonna be a metaphor.
Sam's leading the way.
VO: Natasha and Sam spent £268 on five lots.
VO: Mark and Charles were the big spenders though, blowing 380, also on five lots.
Well, this has got Mark written all over it.
I...
Personally I'd rather play ours, because it's there, ready.
Put it on the table, you can play it straight away.
Whereas this takes you a little bit of time to set up.
But do you know something?
It's going to be quite interesting because they paid 30 for this.
We paid 25 for ours.
They're very similar.
It says here that it was only 2p, so I think that...
If it goes for that, we're in it, we're onto a winner.
(LAUGHS) We need to hope it makes its original price.
Here it is.
Ooh, OK. What do you think of that?
Erm...
It's alright.
I don't think we would have picked that, would we?
Yeah, well to me it's the ultimate object that's out of fashion.
OK.
Completely out of fashion.
If it makes more than £60, I'll be absolutely flabbergasted.
And they paid 100 for it?
£100.
(GASPS) They're in so much trouble.
According to Charles, this was catalogued as art deco, so early 20th century.
But he thinks it's Georgian.
He thinks it could be late 18th century.
I wouldn't put it past Charles to have found the sleeper of the century.
Oh no.
Oh, you like this don't you?
You like this one.
If there's one lot in their armory, this is our Achilles heel.
Yeah.
How much did they pay for it?
£45.
(GASPS) It's got everything.
The only thing it isn't is silver.
If it were silver, it'd be worth £1,000 all day long.
Whoa!
But, it could make £100.
(GASPS) VO: But what does auctioneer David Elstob think might be the darlings of Darlington?
(GAVEL) The Sunday Dispatch sign is absolutely great.
There's been a lot of pre-sale interest in that.
So I have high hopes for it.
I think probably the toughest lot we're going to have is the travelling inkwell.
There's limited interest in those nowadays.
In terms of what will sell well, I hope the Georgian silver bowl will, cuz it's a lovely thing.
VO: Well, the room is ready, the bidders are on the line and online too, so let's get going.
(GAVEL) (WHISPERING) Here we go.
VO: Ding dong.
It's Sam's American Victorian clock.
20 bid.
I'm bid 20 on the book, I'll take five.
25 online, 30 online.
35.
40.
Five.
50.
Five.
60.
Five.
70.
Yes... 70 online.
75 online.
At £75, all done and finishing, 75... (GAVEL) VO: Oh, the big hand is pointing to a loss.
Sam, if only you'd haggled harder.
I know.
VO: Next is Charles's silver bowl.
No hallmarks, but could this be the find of the trip?
100 bid with me on the book.
I'll take 110, 120 with me.
Keep going.
120 with me on commission.
At 120 bid, I'll take 130 next.
At 120 bid then, internet's out with a commission bid.
At £120... Come on.
All done at 120, all done... (GAVEL) VO: Not quite what they'd hoped, but a profit's a profit!
That'll do.
Well done, mate.
Thanks mate.
Well done.
VO: Now, what about the inkwell our auctioneer thought might struggle?
15 bid.
15 I'm bid, I'll take 20.
50?
50?
15.
25 online, 25 online.
30 online.
Come on, come on.
You're in business.
£30 on the internet, I'll take five.
35... (WHISPERS) Yes!
You've done it, you've done it.
35 bid in the room.
Gentleman's bid at 35, I'll take 40 next.
If internet wants to come back in...
It's 35 in the room then.
Fair warning, at 35... (GAVEL) VO: A small, but perfectly formed profit.
Chuffed, chuffed.
That's a good return.
I feel better.
I feel better.
VO: Mark's turn.
He spotted this glass, remember.
25 bid.
25 bid.
God... That's 25, I'll take 30.
Don't tell me.
30 bid, 35.
(GASPS) In the gallery... Come on.
40 bid.
I'll take five.
At £40 on the gallery.
45 online.
50, madam?
No?
(SIGHS) I don't believe it.
Any further bids?
At £45, all done... (GAVEL) VO: No luck, chaps.
That's painful.
15 loss.
Your glass is half empty.
Yeah, half empty.
(LAUGHS) VO: Ah, the lovely Miss Wilkie's strawberry dish.
35 online.
35 I'm bid on the internet.
35 bid, I'll take 40.
At 35 I'm bid on the internet.
Oh, that's not right.
40.
35 it is on the saleroom.
40 I'll take next.
At £35 then, are we all done and finished?
Drop that hammer.
Drop that hammer.
At £35, all done... (GAVEL) Sam, I feel like I've led you down the garden path.
You have a little but that's alright.
(LAUGHS) I want to assure you that that was a rare... No, I agree.
..unusual, beautiful item, and someone has just stolen it from us.
VO: You have indeed been robbed, Natasha!
Next it's a local derby - Sunderland versus Middlesbrough.
I'll start you at £15.
15 bid.
15, 20 in the room.
Go on!
20 bid in the room, I'll take 25.
A lady's bid, 25 bid.
30, five.
40, five.
50.
The warrior.
The warrior!
At £45 then, fair warning.
At 45, all done... (GAVEL) VO: That's next year's transfer fund sorted.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
VO: Can our second football item take Sam and Tasha to the top of the table?
15 bid again.
At £15, I'll take 20.
At 15 I'm bid...
This is gonna flop, isn't it?
No... At £15, £20 anywhere?
20 bid, sir.
20 in the room.
That's alright.
Don't patronize me.
At £20, it's one bid in the room then.
The book's out.
I'm selling at £20.
All done... (GAVEL) VO: That's put them into a relegation battle.
(CHANTING) Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio.
They think it's on offer.
It is now.
(LAUGHS) VO: It's the enamel sign.
Mark rated it, but Sam slated it.
Quite a bit of interest.
Go on, get it.
Don't get too excited.
I'll start you at £80.
Get in, come on.
Not bad.
I'll take 85.
£80 bid with me it is.
Take 85 next.
85 bid.
90 bid.
Go on.
At 90 bid on the book still.
At £90 then, I'm gonna sell.
Fair warning.
At £90, all done.
(GAVEL) VO: The Big Sunday Dispatch dispatched a big loss.
Ouch.
And this auctioneer likes you guys a bit more.
He's selling your lots more.
Yeah, because he knows quality when he sees it.
VO: Next up is Tasha and Sam's last lot - the Chinese cabinet.
25 bid.
25, I'll take 30.
30 online.
35 bid.
35 bid.
40 online.
40, I'll take five.
Come on.
It's gorgeous.
It's worth more than this.
At £40 bid.
It's on the internet then.
At £40, all done.
(GAVEL) VO: Another loss for Sam and Natasha.
But how?
Tash...
They ain't so lucky.
We've had a shocker.
I can't believe it.
You've not done well.
VO: Is Charles and Mark's last item going to be a flyer?
£25, 25 bid.
25 I'm bid, and I'll take 30 for it.
At 25, 30 online.
Bids on the internet at 30.
£30 on the internet, I'll take 35 next.
It's on the internet then, £30, are we all done and finished?
I'm selling at £30, all done.
(GAVEL) VO: It's gone down like a lead balloon!
I think it's close.
I think it's really close as to who's lost the least.
(LAUGHS) It's really close.
And that, to me, is still the competition.
I'm here to win, despite the losses.
Shall we go and figure it out?
Yeah.
Grab your calculator.
VO: Charles and Mark started the trip with £400, and after auction costs they made a loss of £109.40, and finished the trip with £290.60.
(GAVEL) VO: Natasha and Sam began with the same amount.
But because they made a slightly smaller loss, after fees of £99.90, they finish with a grand total of £300.10, and just pip Charles and Mark to victory.
They are today's winners!
So, time to go home.
Should I drive, seeing as I won?
Go on then.
We won, we won.
You're never gonna hear the end of this.
See ya later, thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was great.
Thank you.
CHARLES: It's been awesome.
SAM: Been a pleasure.
OK, man.
Take care, big man.
See ya later, dude.
NATASHA: Drive safely.
Cheerio!
CHARLES: Bye!
See you, gentlemen!
Away the lads.
(CHANTING) Who are ya?
Who are ya?
Well done, mate, well done.
Ta very much, mate.
Shake your hand.
Appreciate that.
Gutted.
Smashed it.
(LAUGHS) No, you didn't smash it!
Didn't smash it at all.
I really enjoyed it, actually.
More than I thought I would.
And you know, it's been lovely to meet Charles and Natasha.
They were so lovely.
Any regrets?
Just that we lost.
(LAUGHS) VO: Until next time, cheerio!
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