How Antiques Roadshow became The Antiques Guilt Trip
BOB HAYTON: In my experience as an antiques valuer and auctioneer of more than 40 years, they are more likely to want to sell you more of their surplus treasures.
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BOB HAYTON: In my experience as an antiques valuer and auctioneer of more than 40 years, they are more likely to want to sell you more of their surplus treasures.
The revelation came while I was watching Antiques Roadshow. So, this is what drives the "woke" revolution. I should explain that the Antiques Roadshow, a BBC program that has been running since the '70s, has a special cultural place in Britain. The format is always the same. The presenters rock up in a pretty provincial town, local people ransack their attics for heirlooms to be valued, some bits of old junk turn out to be expensive, and everyone gets excited.
Antiques Roadshow has come under fire after an expert on the BBC programme asked the descendants of a former governor of British Somaliland whether they would r
As the world continues to go mad, you would have thought that one of the few places of refuge left for the non-mentally challenged would be the Antiques Roadshow. You would be wrong.
According to Ronnie Archer-Morgan, an antiques expert in ethnic, tribal and folk art the robe is valued in the region of £4,000 to £5,000 but viewers were stunned by his one question.