Antiques Roadshow: 40 Years of Great Finds
A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series.Antiques Roadshow has graced our screens for forty years and has become one of the nation’s most beloved television programmes and a national institution. It has featured thousands of unique stories over the years, and introduced many incredible characters and unforgettable moments. In this anniversary celebration, Paul Atterbury and Marc Allum look back at the quintessential moments from the show’s illustrious history, providing a look at the history behind the very best and most intriguing objects that have appeared on the show.Antiques Roadshow: 40 Years of Great Finds reveals the astonishing stories behind findings such as the discovery of the Lalique vase which had been bought for a pound at a car boot sale and left in the loft, only to be valued and sold for £25,000; the twenty-three original Beatrix Potter drawings; a brooch designed by the great Victorian architect William Burges; a poignant letter written by a doomed passenger on the Titanic, and legendary 1970s glam rocker Marc Bolan’s distinctive Gibson Flying V guitar.Beautifully illustrated, and featuring a wealth of artifacts from the show, this is a truly revealing book, unearthing moments from history through each of the extraordinary objects discovered on the programme.
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CONTENTS
Copyright
An Album of Filipino watercolours
A pair of Regency peat buckets
‘The Winner’ enamel advertising sign
Marc Bolan’s Gibson ‘Flying V’ guitar
Margaret James, poster designer
The Great Train Robbers’ Monopoly set
Familiar Roadshow faces, as they were. CLOCKWISE: David Battie, Eric Knowles, Lars Tharp and Henry Sandon.
On 17 May 1977, a group of antiques experts and a BBC production team came together in Hereford’s town hall to make a pilot programme for a possible new series, to be called the Antiques Roadshow. The idea was simple. Members of the public would be encouraged to bring their own objects for identification, discussion and valuation to a team of experts assembled for the purpose in a large public space, with television crews standing by to film the best bits. On paper, it seemed like a good idea, but no one knew on that May morning whether it would work or not.
The inspiration had come from one of the regular valuation days organised by auction houses, whereby members of the public could bring things along for a free valuation, as a means of generating business. One such occasion was visited by a production team from BBC Bristol, and the idea of developing it into a public event that could also be
a television programme was born. At the planning stage, advice was sought from Sotheby’s by BBC Bristol. For the programme, however, there was to be no commercial agenda.
