"given in the original broadcast. Fiona Bruce together with individual ""Antiques Roadshow"" appraisers investigate the history of significant items, uncovering the stories that form the history of family heirlooms and finding out about their origin and authenticity. This one-season programme was broadcast in 2015 and comprises 15 episodes. In Sweden it was shown on SVT in Autumn 2018 under the name of ""Engelska Antikrundan: Arvegodsens hemligheter"" (""""English Round of Antiques: The Secrets of the Heirlooms""""). The first episode, about a Cromwellian escutcheon, was given three stars (out of five) by Christopher Stevens of The Daily Mail, while Ellen E Jones"
"edition of the programme's next series. In September 1998 Bruce became the presenter for BBC Two's ""Antiques Show"", which was in its fourth series. She presented it for a further two series, showing her interest in presenting antiques programmes nearly a decade before presenting the ""Antiques Roadshow"". On 22 June 2007 it was announced that Bruce was to replace the retiring Michael Aspel as presenter of ""Antiques Roadshow"" in Spring 2008; initially causing some controversy. However, average viewership increased during Bruce's first year as presenter. In 2007 Bruce wrote and presented a BBC documentary about Cherie Blair as Tony Blair"
"on PBS in 1997. (PBS also airs the original BBC program, though it is called ""Antiques Roadshow UK"" to differentiate it from its own version.) The American version of ""Antiques Roadshow"" is produced by WGBH-TV, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts. The American version has been hosted by Chris Jussel (1997–2000), Dan Elias (2001–2003), Lara Spencer (2004–2005), and Mark L. Walberg (2006–present). Marsha Bemko is executive producer. Auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's, Heritage Auctions, Skinner, Inc., Doyle New York, Freeman's Auctioneers & Appraisers, and Swann Galleries provide expert appraisers for venues across America. During 2005, PBS broadcast ""Antiques Roadshow FYI"","
"""Antiques Roadshow"", along with Arthur Negus. Negus retired in 1983, and Scully was the sole host on that show for 17 years. He resigned as presenter in 2000, to join Internet auction company QXL.com and help launch its on-line antiques business, and was replaced by Michael Aspel. From 1988, Scully ran a television production company, Fine Art Productions, and he also hosted a segment on ""Britain's Finest"". He was married to his wife Barbara for 43 years before she died on 9 March 2009. Scully died on 8 October 2015, at the age of 72, in his home in Tresillian,"
"John Bly John Bly FRSA (born 1939) is an English antiques dealer, author, after-dinner speaker and broadcaster who is best known from the BBC ""Antiques Roadshow"" (UK). He attended Berkhamsted School and his career began with Sotheby's, where he worked for four years before joining his family business in Tring (John Bly Antiques, started by John Bly's great grandfather). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. For two years he was elected a chairman of the British Antique Dealers' Association (BADA). John Bly appeared on the highly popular"
"Hilary Kay Hilary Marion Kay (born 16 December 1956) is a British antiques expert, author and lecturer, probably best known for her many appearances on BBC TVs ""Antiques Roadshow"" programme on which she is a member of the team of experts. Kay's first job was working for fine art and antique dealers Spink & Son in St. James's. In 1977, Kay accepted an offer to join Sotheby's Collectors’ Department. Later that year Kay became head of that department and, aged 21, became the company's youngest ever auctioneer. A rock and roll fan, in 1981 Kay held the world's first rock"
"regardless of the monetary value of the objects. At the core though, the focus of the production is on the interplay between the owner and the evaluator. ""Antiques Roadshow"" has been hosted by: Many experts in the various antiques fields appear(ed) on the show either regularly or intermittently. Among the best known are: Episodes are usually filmed during the spring and summer and aired the following autumn and winter (into the following year). Each location visited is covered by one or two episodes. In 2005, part of the BBC team visited Australia and produced six one-hour episodes in conjunction with"
"David Battie David Battie FRSA (born 22 October 1942) is a British expert on ceramics with a particular emphasis on Japanese and Chinese artefacts. After attending art school where he studied as a graphic designer, Battie joined ""Reader's Digest"" magazine for three years. In 1965, he joined the auction house Sotheby's. There he worked in the Departments of Ceramics and Oriental Works of Art and was appointed a Director in 1976. He retired from Sotheby's in 1999. He is perhaps best known for his many television appearances on the long running BBC television show ""Antiques Roadshow"" in which he has"
"Geoffrey Munn Geoffrey Charles Munn, OBE, MVO, FSA, FLS. (born in Hastings on 11 April 1953) is a British jewellery specialist, television presenter and writer. He is best known as one of the experts on the BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"". However, his first television appearance was in 1963 when he, and his brother, Roger Munn, featured with their pet fox cubs on Johnny Morris's ""Animal Magic"". He was brought up in Henfield in Sussex and educated at Shoreham College and Steyning Grammar School, but, unlike many of his peers, did not attend university. Munn was the managing director of London jewellers"
"Cornwall. He is survived by his two sons. Hugh Scully Michael Hugh Scully (5 March 1943 – 8 October 2015) was an English journalist, radio and television presenter. He is best known as the host and longest-serving presenter of the BBC programme ""Antiques Roadshow"" from 1981 to 2000. Born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, he spent much of his childhood in Malta and Egypt, where his father was stationed with the Royal Air Force. He was sent to Prior Park College, a boarding school in Bath, at the age of thirteen, and after leaving worked for a period with the piano company"
"Telecommunications Heritage Group to recreate the Pat Simmons speaking clock. Around 75 electronic speaking clocks with the Pat Simmons voice were sold. The Speaking Clock machine that was used by Pat Simmons was displayed on an edition of the BBC television programme, Antiques Roadshow, originally broadcast on 19 October 2008. It had been on display as a working machine at the museum of the British Horological Institute. About forty-four minutes into the programme, Alan Midleton, who had made past appearances as a watch and clock expert on the show in previous episodes but was appearing as a curator of the"
"Hugh Scully Michael Hugh Scully (5 March 1943 – 8 October 2015) was an English journalist, radio and television presenter. He is best known as the host and longest-serving presenter of the BBC programme ""Antiques Roadshow"" from 1981 to 2000. Born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, he spent much of his childhood in Malta and Egypt, where his father was stationed with the Royal Air Force. He was sent to Prior Park College, a boarding school in Bath, at the age of thirteen, and after leaving worked for a period with the piano company Steinway & Sons. For a short time Hugh"
"Tim Wonnacott Timothy Wonnacott (born 6 May 1951) is an English chartered auctioneer, chartered surveyor, antiques expert, and a television presenter. He was previously a director of Sotheby's, one of the world's oldest auction houses. He is best known for having presented the BBC daytime programme ""Bargain Hunt"" from 2003 until 2015, and has been the narrator of ""Antiques Road Trip"" since it began in 2010. Wonnacott was educated at the independent West Buckland School in Devon; after qualifying as a chartered auctioneer and chartered surveyor, he took a postgraduate course at the Victoria and Albert Museum in fine and"
"Peter Nahum Peter Nahum is an English art dealer, author, lecturer and journalist who is known for his many appearances on the long running BBC television programme ""Antiques Roadshow"", on which he appeared from 1981 to 2002. He discovered a long lost Richard Dadd watercolour on the show which was subsequently sold to the British Museum. Nahum was educated at Sherborne School and began his career at Peter Wilson's Sotheby's in 1966. During his 17 years with the company he initiated the Victorian Painting Department at the newly opened Sotheby's Belgravia in 1971 and was head of the British Painting"
"""Antiques Roadshow"" programme in 1986. In 2003, when the ""Antiques Roadshow"" visited Dumfries in Scotland, Farahar identified a collection of 23 drawings and watercolours as the work of Beatrix Potter. He valued the collection at £250,000. Clive Farahar Clive Farahar (born 1950) is a British dealer and expert on books and manuscripts. He is best known as an expert on the BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"", which he joined in 1986. The son of Robert, a geologist and Joan (née Hutchins) Farahar, Clive Farahar attended Westminster Abbey Choir School. He joined Francis Edwards Ltd, a bookdealer in London's Marylebone High Street on"
"Teams achieving the difficult feat of earning a profit on all three items are awarded a ""golden gavel""; originally a wooden trophy, but latterly a lapel pin. A separate celebrity version of the show premiered on 1 December 2008 on BBC Two featuring team pairs made up of one well-known personality accompanied by a friend or family member. The show is presented by Tim Wonnacott and the format is the same as the main show but Wonnacott's visit to see an antiques collection or stately home is replaced by a feature where each celebrity contestant discusses antiques with him. Wonnacott"
"David Dickinson David Dickinson (Tom) (born David Gulesserian; 16 August 1941) is an English antiques expert and television presenter. Between 2000 and 2004, Dickinson hosted the BBC One antiques show ""Bargain Hunt"", where he was succeeded by Tim Wonnacott. Dickinson left the BBC in 2005 and since 2006, Dickinson has been hosting the ITV daytime show ""Dickinson's Real Deal"". The show sees members of the public bringing antiques and collectables to sell to a dealer or take to the auction. In 2010, he hosted his own daytime chat show series ""The David Dickinson Show"" and in 2017, he presented ""David"
"banned in 1915 and subsequently lost. He has been a specialist in the miscellaneous and collectables teams on the BBC Antiques Roadshow since 2007, and regularly appears on the show. He has also co-presented three primetime television series for BBC2; ""Cracking Antiques"" with Kathryn Rayward in 2010, and ""Antiques Uncovered"" with Lucy Worsley in 2012. In 2014, he co-presented ""Collectaholics"", a new primetime BBC2 series, with Mel Giedroyc. Hill lives in London with his partner. He is a Patron of the King's Lynn Arts Centre, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Freeman of the City of London"
"the UK and re-printed in France and Germany. Baddeley is also known as a specialist on the BBC's long-running television programme ""Antiques Roadshow"", on which he has made regular appearances since he joined the cast of experts in 1993. Baddeley also is listed in ""Who's Who"" 2014. Jon Baddeley Jon Baddeley is a fine art auctioneer, an authority on scientific instruments and collectables, a broadcaster and an author. As Managing Director of Bonhams, Knightsbridge Baddeley is responsible for auctions of jewellery, silver, paintings, furniture and works of art, specialist sales of portrait miniatures, arms and armour, sporting guns, coins and"
"Royal Victorian Order by the Queen. Geoffrey Munn Geoffrey Charles Munn, OBE, MVO, FSA, FLS. (born in Hastings on 11 April 1953) is a British jewellery specialist, television presenter and writer. He is best known as one of the experts on the BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"". However, his first television appearance was in 1963 when he, and his brother, Roger Munn, featured with their pet fox cubs on Johnny Morris's ""Animal Magic"". He was brought up in Henfield in Sussex and educated at Shoreham College and Steyning Grammar School, but, unlike many of his peers, did not attend university. Munn was"
"as in the ""Jim'll Fix It"" episode, with many of the ""Roadshow"" spectators looking on in astonishment, until antiques expert David Battie explained the ruse. The most valuable item to ever appear on the show featured on 16 November 2008. This was an original 1990s maquette of the ""Angel of the North"" sculpture by Antony Gormley, owned by Gateshead Council, which was valued at £1,000,000 by Philip Mould. Glassware expert Andy McConnell later valued a collection of chandeliers at seven million pounds (their actual insurance value), noting as he did so that this beat Mould's record; however these were fixtures"
"money for The Haven, Breast Cancer Support Centres. Over the nine years he ran it Cato raised over £40,000. The event is still going strong and the winners now receive the Lennox Cato Cup. Lennox Cato Lennox Paul Cato (born 1961) is an antiques dealer specialising in furniture and decorative items from the Georgian and Regency periods and who has been an expert on the BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"" since 2004. The second to youngest of five children born to West Indian immigrants from Grenada, aged two months Cato and an older brother, Lincoln Cato, were adopted by Brighton antiques dealer"
"the ""Antiques Roadshow"". In April 2005 it was announced that the primetime version of ""Bargain Hunt"" had been axed; however the daytime version continued. Reruns of the daytime version (from the Dickinson era) also appear on BBC Entertainment and BBC America. The show occasionally features well-known contestants, such as ""'Allo 'Allo!"" stars Gorden Kaye and Sue Hodge. The show airs on the Australian Foxtel and Austar cable television channel, Lifestyle, at 6.30 pm weekdays. The show also airs on the Seven Network's digital station 7Two (Prime's 7Two, in Regional Areas), weekdays at 11am and 6.30pm. Several episodes recorded in late"
"David Harper (antiques expert) David Kingsley Harper (born 1967 in Middlesbrough, England) is a British BBC TV antiques expert, writer, after dinner speaker and artist. Harper appears on ""Bargain Hunt"", ""Put your Money where Your Mouth Is"", Cash In The Attic and ""The Antiques Road Trip. He has been featured on Through The Keyhole, Ready Steady Cook and presented pieces for The Heaven & Earth Show, The One Show, Inside Out and Countryfile Summer Diaries."" His first TV role was in 2005 as presenter of Channel 4's ""Natural Born Dealers"". In April 2010 he won the first series of BBC"
"The LifeStyle Channel (XYZnetworks). These were titled ""Antiques Roadshow Australia"". A special was also made about the visit to Australia, entitled ""Antiques Roadshow Australia: Behind the Scenes"". A Canadian version – called ""Canadian Antiques Roadshow"" – debuted in January 2005 on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld. It is hosted by Valerie Pringle. The show has also been aired on CBC Country Canada. The most expensive item featured was Henry Nelson O'Neil's ""Eastward Ho!"" oil on canvas. Recommended insurance: CDN$500,000, later sold at Sotheby's in London for GB£164,800 (about CDN$300,000 at 2008 exchange rate). The Finnish version, known as ""Antiikkia, antiikkia"","
"Rupert Maas Rupert Nicholas Maas (born 23 July 1960) is an English painting specialist and gallery owner best known for his appearances on the long-running series ""Antiques Roadshow"" where he has been a member of the team of experts since 1997. Born and raised in London, Rupert is the son of Jeremy Maas and Antonia Armstrong Willis. Rupert's parents had married in 1956. Rupert has an older sister Athena (born 1957) and a younger brother Jonathan (born 1962). Rupert's father started the Maas Gallery in Mayfair, London, dealing in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, writing a book in 1969, ""Victorian Painters"". Rupert Maas"
"presented a segment called ""The Tartan Treasure Hunter"" for ""A Current Affair"". In 2005, Brown was hired by the ABC to present a segment called ""Roving Eye"" on the new series ""Collectors"", as well as acting on the show's panel as an expert on Georgian and Victorian antiques. ""Collectors"" was cancelled in 2011, and Brown presented the second series of ""Auction Room"", replacing William McInnes. Gordon Brown (television presenter) Gordon Brown is a Scottish–Australian antique dealer, and presenter of several television programs about antiques and collecting. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Brown began collecting and selling antiques in Edinburgh at the"
"BBC in 1997; 60 programmes were made. In 1993, Aspel became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ""for services to broadcasting"", and has been voted ""TV Times"" and Variety Club Television Personality of the Year. He was also voted into the Royal Television Society Hall of Fame for outstanding services to television. He presented BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"" from 2000 until 2008, his last programme (recorded at Kentwell Hall, Suffolk) was shown on 30 March 2008 being a tribute to himself. In 2003, Aspel starred in a BBC Three spoof documentary which claimed he had affairs with"
"the show called ""Antiques Roadshow Insider"", which gives fans an inside look at the show as well as offering special features about antiques and collectibles from the programme itself. Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979, based on a 1977 documentary programme. The programme has spawned versions in other countries with the same TV format, including Canada and the United States. As of 2018 it is in"
"Bunny Campione Bunny Campione (born Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher, ca. August 1946) is an English antiques expert known for her many appearances on the long running BBC television programme ""Antiques Roadshow"", on which she has appeared since 1987. Campione became known as ""Bunny"" as a young child after she was given a coat that had a hood with rabbit ears on it and she later collected soft toy rabbits. She studied at university in France and worked at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford for a year. She then worked at Sotheby's for 23 years gaining a wide knowledge of antiques"
"Eric Knowles Eric Knowles (born 19 February 1953 in Nelson, Lancashire, England) is a British antiques expert and television personality, whose main interest is in ceramics. Eric joined the London auction house Bonhams auctioneers as a porter in the ceramics department in 1976 and became head of the department in 1981. By 1992 he was given responsibility for setting up Bonham's offices in Bristol. He has since returned to London to continue with directing the Decorative Arts Department. He first earned fame as a ceramics expert on the BBC's ""Antiques Roadshow"". He has also appeared in such programmes as, ""Going"
"of PBS's popular object-appraisal show ""Antiques Roadshow"" and subsequently became one of PBS' ""History Detectives"". In addition to the PBS shows, she has also participated in HGTV/TLC's historical-home program ""If Walls Could Talk"" as well as co-hosting ""2009 Endless Yard Sale"". She also hosted ""Treasure Seekers"", a cable/satellite program which follows her travels to antiques shows around the country in order to display and evaluate objects of historical significance and/or interest. She was also a regular contributor to the magazine ""Antique Trader"" and website ""Huffington Post"". Luray appeared regularly on ""The Nate Berkus Show"" as his appraiser. She is also"
"Gordon Watson (antique dealer) Gordon Watson (born March 1954) is a British antique dealer and television presenter, and ""one of the world's leading authorities on 20th and 21st century design"". Watson's customers at his eponymous store have included Elton John, Mick Jagger and Madonna, and he initially barred Freddie Mercury and his leather-clad friends from his shop, because he thought they were a biker gang coming to rob him. Watson was the only dealer to appear in all of the first four series of Channel 4's ""Four Rooms"" TV show. Since May 2016, he has his own series on BBC2,"