(CAR HORN) VOICEOVER (VO): The nation's favorite celebrities...

It's not worth a tenner.

VO: ..paired up with an expert... You're learning.

VO: ..and a classic car.

This is very exciting, isn't it?

It is.

VO: Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.

Got a nice ring to it.

VO: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.

Come on.

VO: But it's no easy ride.

RICHARD: Brake.

DOMINIC: I can't!

VO: Who will find a hidden gem?

I hope I don't live to regret this.

VO: Take the biggest risk?

We've definitely got a problem.

VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?

You'd never catch me buying anything like that.

VO: There will be worthy winners... (THEY CHEER) VO: ..and valiant losers.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

VO: Put your pedal to the metal.

VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah.

VO: There are VIPs in the Valleys.

DIANNE BUSWELL: Who would have thought that we would be strolling around Wales in a little vintage car...

I know!

DIANNE: ..together.

The babettes on tour.

VO: We're road-tripping with celebrity bosom buddies, pro dancer Dianne Buswell and Britain's favorite former weatherman, Owain Wyn Evans.

OWAIN: Babe, who do you think is gonna be the most competitive out of the two of us?

I do look always so sweet and innocent... You do.

..but I am a dancer after all.

And I have a very competitive nature.

VO: She certainly does.

Dianne is best known for her appearances as a professional dancing partner on the British TV show, Strictly Come Dancing.

OWAIN: What have you got your eye on, babe?

As far as, you know, when we go to our little antiques shops and markets, what kind of things does Dianne Buswell want?

I'm a colorful girl, so if there's anything that's a bit colorful, I will be drawn to it straight away.

VO: Aside from Britain's beautiful weather, Owain is a well known British radio DJ and TV presenter.

He's also made the odd brave appearance on UK shows such as Freeze The Fear.

I was always wearing, like, deerstalker hats.

DIANNE: You had the hats...!

OWAIN: And I brought with me a box of my favorite vintage brooches, and I would put them on my hat.

Because I couldn't stick them on... Well, most of the time I was in swimming shorts.

I remember.

VO: Yay, you don't want brooch pins anywhere near your swimming trunks, that's for sure.

Cool, though.

Like this classic 1967 Austin Princess Vanden Plas.

I love cars, and I especially love vintage cars.

DIANNE: I could never drive it because I can't actually drive manual.

OWAIN: Really?!

DIANNE: Never.

Never.

You would not be trusting me in that.

She's a full auto girl.

DIANNE: I'm a full auto girl.

VO: Well, just sit back and enjoy the ride, Dianne.

There's something quite James Bond about it.

Or Austin Powers, perhaps.

Do you think that any of these buttons, like, launch rocket launchers or something...?

Oh, my God.

There's a lot of buttons there, actually, isn't there?

Fog, fog... No, they're not rockets.

No... VO: Yeah, you'll be lucky to get the air-con working.

On this sunny summer's day, Owain and Dianne are starting out in Pontypool, then winding around Wales before jiving over to Bath for auction.

They both have 400 new pounds to buy some groovy antiques, and have a special pair of agents to guide them - Hettie Jago and David Harper.

I bet you they are positively bulging with energy and life.

I bet they are.

I'm really excited to meet them.

DAVID: I think we'll take a lot from them.

If nothing else, pure energy.

HETTIE: They should be here soon.

Shall we go in?

Shall we have a bit of a mooch around?

HETTIE: Yeah, let's go have a look.

DAVID: Let's go mooching.

VO: All our ragamuffins are putting their best foot forwards, meeting, as they are, at Ragamuffins Emporiums.

The forecast for the day is sun and fun with our celebs and experts.

OWAIN: Hettie... HETTIE: Hello!

OWAIN: How are you?

HETTIE: Lovely to meet you!

So nice to see you, darling.

I'm so excited about this.

Welcome to the Road Trip.

Oh, my gosh.

Honestly, I am so excited.

HETTIE: Are you?

Are you into antiques at all or...?

I love things with a story.

OK. And be it a piece of furniture or... you know, I love a brooch.

I love a brooch.

OWAIN: Oh, well, we're on the same page.

I know.

This is going to be great.

We're going to have some lovely brooches.

Absolutely.

I like jewelry, as well, so any kind of jewelry.

Is that your sort of thing?

Nice.

100%.

Yeah.

We know what we're looking for.

We're sorted.

HETTIE: Shall we go have a look?

OWAIN: Yeah, let's go!

VO: I think they just became best friends.

Will Dianne and David be dancing on air?

DIANNE: Hi, David!

DAVID: Dianne... ..my goodness me.

This is where it all starts.

DIANNE: I'm so excited.

DAVID: Are you?

Anxious and nervous?

DIANNE: No, not at all!

DAVID: Really?

Yeah!

I love anything second-hand.

DAVID: Right.

DIANNE: Like, that's just...

I prefer to shop in shops like this than...than anything else.

So I am...

I feel like it's Christmas.

DIANNE: I'm very excited.

DAVID: Oh, my g... Shall we put both our brains together and see what we come up with?

DIANNE: Let's do it.

DAVID: Alright, come on.

VO: With 27 traders and eclectic antiques across two floors, the emporium has toys, furniture, and even a room of vintage clothes.

Dianne, I don't want to drive you wild or anything.

I mean, you look...you look brilliant.

DAVID: Really?

DIANNE: Great...!

DAVID: Great is not good enough.

Different to what you came in like, but I like it.

Let me teach you something, though, about fashion, because it's all about color...coordination!

DIANNE: I love the red theme!

VO: Do you know, there are some things best left unseen.

I've just spotted these.

VO: Hello.

These should be up Owain's street.

HETTIE: Now, I know you're into cars, aren't you?

OWAIN: I am.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: And they look like... What, are they from a racing track or something?

HETTIE: They are motor-racing signs.

OWAIN: Ah...!

HETTIE: But what I like the most about them is that they are original.

OWAIN: Yeah.

HETTIE: So these are probably '20s, '30s, and really, really nice weight to them.

Yeah.

There's some story behind these.

HETTIE: Yeah.

Like, we would probably never be able to find out exactly where they were, what track they were from.

Yeah, imagine if they were from a really famous track or something?

Yeah.

Or maybe it was just like an amateur racing field.... HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: ..you know... ..people would go to on weekends with their nice cars.

Em, I love these!

Yeah, I really like them.

I think they could do really, really well at auction.

OWAIN: Nice.

HETTIE: Anything... HETTIE: ..to do with signage, you know, vintage antique signage does really, really well.

OWAIN: Does it?

HETTIE: Yeah.

And you've got the set of three.

What does the F stand for?

OWAIN: (LAUGHS) HETTIE: You probably know better than me cuz I don't know anything about racing... OWAIN: Good question.

Well, I suppose...

They look like the kind of thing that would go in the ground... ..but they could be hand signs, as well.

So... A little sort of...somebody standing at the finish line.

Yeah, exactly.

So maybe when it's the final lap, the F came up?

OWAIN: I don't know.

HETTIE: Oh, well.

But you've got the set of three.

So that's great.

And they've been mounted into this.

HETTIE: They have!

They've got little stands for them.

I probably wouldn't have them in the stand though, if they were in my house.

I'd have them on the wall... Yeah, absolutely.

You'd want to make something of this...?

Yeah, definitely.

They're a good decorator's piece.

How much are they, Hettie?

HETTIE: They've got 230 on them for the three.

(EXHALES) For the three, OK... HETTIE: Yeah.

So we want to be paying a lot less than that, but they're the sort of thing that could do really, really well at auction, and they are appealing to motor-racing enthusiasts.

HETTIE: So you've got... OWAIN: Yeah.

..those buyers competing to buy them.

I think they could do really well.

I do like them.

So where did your love of cars come from, then?

Well, I grew up around loads of cars and I used to ride little motorbikes when I was younger... Did you?

Yeah... OWAIN: ..as well, yeah, around my friend's field in Ammanford.

And my grandfather and my uncles, and my father, actually, loved cars.

Yeah.

So, you know, my dad was always down the shed at the bottom of the garden, taking a motorbike apart.

Yeah.

OWAIN: Or in my grandfather's garage, he had all these old Rovers, and I think it's from that.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: I love them.

So, fab!

So, that's good that it relates to you, as well.

OWAIN: Yes... 100%.

HETTIE: And you like them.

So...

I think we should buy them.

Let's get them.

Brilliant.

Shall we leave them here, then, and we'll go look at some other stuff - they're quite heavy.

OWAIN: They are quite heavy.

Let's put them back in their little cradle.

VO: They're a possible, but Owain wants to do another lap or two before committing.

So, what's Dianne up to?

Oh...I love her so much.

DAVID: Oh.

Go on, tell me why.

DIANNE: (GASPS) DIANNE: She is gorgeous.

I mean, she looks old... Well, she doesn't look old.

You don't look old.

You just look like you've been... She's not real, just so you know.

Yeah...!

She's aged very well.

How old do you think she would be?

DAVID: '60s or '70s, I'd say.

DIANNE: Really?!

DAVID: Yeah.

VO: Pelham Puppets made it possible for children to become their very own puppet masters.

This original Dutch girl marionette would undoubtedly have danced for its owner back in the day.

Did you have something similar as a child?

I mean, I did have one of these, but obviously newer-looking.

DAVID: Did you make your puppet dance?

I would always make my puppets dance.

I think one of the reasons I got into dancing was making all my dolls and my toys dance with each other.

I just loved it.

What about the outfits?

When you're doing Strictly, when you dress the part, does it help you transport yourself back in time?

Yeah, it definitely does.

Like, I pictured this little doll, and lots of the Charlestons that I've done on Strictly, it's actually a similar-looking, like, outfit.

And I think getting dressed into the era of the dance or the style of the dance just makes it so much better and it transports you back to that time.

Even though I wasn't, you know, born in that year or I was never around.

DAVID: So it's good mental preparation, then, isn't it, as well as kind of the physical preparation?

Yeah, definitely.

I think you have to put yourself there first and then the rest just comes so much more naturally.

So, I just love her.

How much do you think something like this would be?

DAVID: How much do you think she is?

Well, I would pay about 20, £25 for her.

Well, I'll tell you what.

You would buy her for 20 or £25... DIANNE: Ooh...!

DAVID: Because she is £10.

DIANNE: No...!

DAVID: Yes.

DIANNE: £10?

Well, she is ours.

DAVID: Shall we bag it?

DIANNE: That excites me.

Yes, let's do it.

Let's bag it.

OWAIN: Hon, do you like my hat?

(LAUGHS) HETTIE: I love it!

Are you going to a wedding?

OWAIN: Yes, I'm going to a wedding.

HETTIE: It's very stylish.

OWAIN: Bye.

DAVID: Oh, real records!

I bet you've got real records at home.

We do.

Joe, my boyfriend, he actually has two record players, and he sits, has a glass of whisky and puts his records on, and he loves it.

Hettie?

Hello, what have you found?

Ooh...

I've found something that I've fallen in love with.

HETTIE: OK. OWAIN: So, this is a Fresnel stage light.

Right?

You know, the unit itself is old, but it looks like it's got some new electrics in it, OWAIN: ..and it's on... HETTIE: Yeah.

..this kind of easel stand.

Yeah.

That's definitely a later-added stand, isn't it?

OWAIN: Yes.

VO: Owain's a keen collector of stage lights.

OWAIN: This is a more classic piece.

Very you, then.

OWAIN: It is.

Shall we plug it in?

Let's just plonk it over here... Cuz we want this to work, don't we?

OWAIN: Yeah.

HETTIE: Oh no...!

Oh, my gosh...

It's going over.

I've got it.

I'm holding it... OWAIN: Have you got it?

HETTIE: Yeah... You plug it in.

I'm always terrified with these things.

OWAIN: Here we go... That's on.

HETTIE: Oh... (GASPS) Oh!

OWAIN: Oh, my goodness!

HETTIE: I love it!

OWAIN: It's gorgeous.

HETTIE: Yes.

OWAIN: I think it's great.

Shall we buy it?

I think we need to put the spotlight in the spotlight.

HETTIE: I do, too.

OWAIN: Shall we get it?

Yes.

Let's go!

VO: It's unpriced, but a potential purchase.

Now, what's Dianne up to?

OWAIN: Oh...babette.

DIANNE: Oh-wain!

OWAIN: (LAUGHS) Are you loving your time in here?

I'm having a great time, babe.

I'm... Like, I think I'm thriving in this shop.

Yeah, she's thriving, she's living, she's loving life.

I'm living my best life in here.

OWAIN: Oh, my God.

DIANNE: Speaking of... Babette, it's me and you!

DIANNE: ..it's me and you.

Oh, that's stunning.

OWAIN: Is it?

DIANNE: In that black boot... Oh, my God, thank you, babe.

Now, you've just got to hold around the waist.

OWAIN: Yeah.

OK. DIANNE: That's it.

Gorge.

DIANNE: This is where we... OWAIN: ..bringing the leg up.

This is where we do the arabesque.

Little pretty arms, and smile.

VO: Aw!

They're like a pretty pair of statues in their own right.

DAVID: Oh!

Cowboy boots.

DIANNE: Oh...cute!

DAVID: Yes.

DIANNE: (GASPS) Love it.

DAVID: OK. Oh.

Would you be up, Dianne, for a Dianne challenge?

DIANNE: Oh, a Dianne challenge?

DAVID: Yes.

I am always up for a Dianne challenge.

DAVID: OK.

I'm going to give you this object.

DIANNE: OK. DAVID: I want you to have a look at it.

(GASPS) Oh, she's using the sniff test!

I'm using...the...the sniff...the sniff test.

I can't believe it.

Do I smell pepper?

DAVID: I'm not saying a thing.

DIANNE: Is it a pepper grinder?

You are...wrong.

Oh, no!

Yes, shall I tell you?

DIANNE: Yeah, go on.

When you went for the sniff test, I thought you were going to get it, because... Oh.

I thought I smelt pepper.

..I thought you were going to say petroleum.

DIANNE: Petroleum?

DAVID: Yeah, fluid.

Lighter fluid.

Because this is a plastic - late Bakelite, 1950s, 1960s - French novelty striker to light your fire or whatever.

Oh!

DAVID: Listen to how it works.

What you need to do.

You need to twist this top...and remove the little rod on the interior.

This is telescopic, right?

DIANNE: Oh, there's more!

DAVID: I know.

DIANNE: It's cool!

DAVID: Isn't it exciting?

And then, inside the container is a liquid, like a lighter fuel.

Like petroleum.

DIANNE: Mm-hm?

DAVID: You dip the little rod in.

Drench the wick, turn it over and...strike.

Oh, my God!

That's like magic!

Isn't it?

DAVID: Isn't that wild?

DIANNE: That's so cool.

DAVID: It is.

And look what's on the front.

It's a pheasant.

DIANNE: (LAUGHS) That's beautiful.

DAVID: Isn't it great?

DIANNE: Yeah...!

I love it.

35 quid.

I think it's so novelty, so different.

Do you think we could get it any cheaper?

DAVID: I'm just going to leave it in your capable hands.

OK. We'll see what we can do.

DAVID: Come on, then.

DIANNE: Let's go.

Let's put you to the test.

Another Dianne challenge.

DIANNE: (LAUGHS) VO: I'm sure Dianne can rise to it.

Time to cut a deal with Allun, the owner.

She has the Pelham puppet, as well, of course.

DAVID: There he is.

There's the man.

DIANNE: We've had a lot of fun.

ALLUN: Good.

DIANNE: I love the doll that I saw earlier.

ALLUN: The Pelham puppet?

DAVID & DIANNE: Yes.

For £10 I'm going to definitely take that.

OK. And then we found this, as well.

ALLUN: It's lovely, isn't it?

DIANNE: It's gorgeous.

I actually did not know what this was until David showed me.

Mm-hm?

But I'm wondering, what is the best price we can do?

We can shave a little bit off it... DIANNE: Yeah?

ALLUN: ..get it down to 30.

Oh, that sounds brilliant.

ALLUN: OK?

DIANNE: Yeah.

VO: That'll be £40 altogether.

DIANNE: There we go.

ALLUN: Thank you.

DIANNE: Thank you very much.

ALLUN: Thank you very much.

DAVID: You're a star.

DIANNE: I'm a star.

ALLUN: Take care.

DIANNE: (LAUGHS) VO: With £360 remaining, Dianne pulled some strings!

Oh...

Isn't she lovely?

She's beautiful.

I'm so happy with her.

VO: Now, come on, Owain.

Time to show them what you can do.

OWAIN: Oh, Hettie, look at this.

This has caught my eye.

That looks very you.

I don't know if that's a compliment or... No, it is...

It's very bright and colorful.

OWAIN: It is!

And I would say it's the perfect mix of absolutely hideous and quite appealing.

That's good.

I like stuff that... treads that very thin line between, you know... Oh, yes.

So let's have a quick look at it... HETTIE: Is it... OWAIN: What is it?

OWAIN: It's a stool, obviously.

HETTIE: Yeah, it's a stool.

So it's either bargeware - or canalware, as they call it.

VO: Created by those who lived or worked on UK canals, bargeware became popular between the mid 19th to the early 20th century.

OWAIN: 25 quid.

Is it worth it?

HETTIE: I don't think it's going to make a huge amount of money.

But if you really love it, as I always say to people, buy with your heart.

That's what I always do.

I think I've just got to have a perch on it.

HETTIE: Yeah.

Comfortable?

OWAIN: Oh, it's lovely.

Very comfortable.

Whether or not we make money on it or not...

I think it's screaming out, "Buy me, buy me, buy me."

It is.

We're going to get it.

So let's get the camp, little, tiny stool.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: Lovely.

HETTIE: We're sorted with that one.

We'll come back for that.

You not taking it with you?

Oh, yeah, alright.

I can have a little sit down, then.

VO: Owain hopes he'll be sitting pretty with that purchase.

Time to see Allun at the till.

Allun, how are you?

ALLUN: Hi.

OWAIN: Lovely to see you.

And you, too, as well.

Let's talk business.

Down to the money?

VO: Owain's got the barge stool, motorsport signs and stage light.

Let's start with the light.

The light.

There's no price on it.

It's 165.

I was hoping it was going to be a bit less than that, to be honest, Allun.

I've got a bit of wiggle room.

So where would you want to be?

How about 70?

Could you do it for 70?

I know it's cheeky, but I'm a cheeky person.

HETTIE: Oh, wow... ALLUN: Let's agree on £80.

OWAIN: 80 for the lamp.

ALLUN: OK. OWAIN: Oh!

HETTIE: Oh, we've bought one thing already!

We've got the lamp!

Brilliant!

Alright.

Shall we move on to the signs now?

HETTIE: Yes.

Cuz you saw these, didn't you?

Mm.

Yeah.

These are my favorite item of the lot of them.

You've got 230 on the ticket.

Yes.

What's your absolute best price on that?

Best I can do on that is 160.

HETTIE: That seems quite fair... OWAIN: Yeah, absolutely.

HETTIE: I think we'd be happy with that, if you are?

I'm happy with that.

Shall we shake on that?

HETTIE: ..shake on that as well!

This is going well.

OWAIN: It's going so well.

HETTIE: (LAUGHS) Don't forget about this one.

The main event!

How could I forget about this?

What's the best price you could give us on this?

I'll do a tenner off.

15 quid.

Tenner or 15 quid.

Well, I'm going to go for the tenner... ALLUN: Yeah?

OWAIN: ..if that's alright.

OWAIN: Are you happy with that?

ALLUN: Go on, then.

OWAIN: Oh, Allun, thank you.

HETTIE: Aw!

Thank you... HETTIE: ..We're really pleased, aren't we?

We are so pleased.

We're going to use this when we need to sit down... HETTIE: We are, yeah.

VO: Very kind of Allun to let it go.

That comes to a total of £250 altogether.

ALLUN: Fabulous.

Thank you.

OWAIN: Diolch yn fawr.

ALLUN: Diolch yn fawr.

OWAIN: Thank you.

OWAIN: See you later, Allun.

ALLUN: Take care.

OWAIN: Have a good day.

VO: Owain now has just £150 remaining.

Now, Dianne and David have made their own way to Cardiff.

Wales has more castles per square mile than any other European country, and Cardiff's is a beauty.

But will Jacob's Antiques provide some tales of the unexpected?

DAVID: Wow, this is jumping.

Shouldn't we dance our way in?

I know.

I feel like this is... DAVID: This is how you do it.

..the antique store for me!

(LAUGHS) VO: Ensconced in a 1920s warehouse, there's an array of antiques and collectables across three floors, plus a living thing or two.

DAVID: Come on, sweetheart... DIANNE: Aw...that's so cute.

There you go.

What a good boy.

This is the way to win Jake's heart.

DIANNE: (LAUGHS) Yeah.

Yeah.

VO: Who's a pretty boy, then?

DAVID: Oh, he's a good boy.

DIANNE: Aw, cute!

DIANNE: His little hair!

DAVID: Now, Dianne, are you a bit of a jewelry girl?

DIANNE: I am.

I'm so drawn to this stone here... DAVID: Yeah, yeah.

DIANNE: And this shape.

DAVID: Ah, that's interesting.

I feel like a lot of work has gone into this.

And, obviously, that stone is just... DAVID: It's a beautiful stone.

DIANNE: ..beautiful.

DAVID: Do you know what stone it is?

DIANNE: I'm not 100% sure.

DAVID: Think of Australia.

DIANNE: An opal?

DAVID: Yeah.

DIANNE: That's an opal?!

DAVID: Isn't that strange, that you're drawn to a stone from your homeland?

Yeah, actually!

That's your soul.

There you go.

It's my soul... DAVID: It is, yeah.

..looking into the Australian sea.

DAVID: Yeah.

Now, would you wear that?

DIANNE: I would personally wear that.

And I think it looks like it would be worth a little bit.

Like, it doesn't look like... like a cheap piece of jewelry.

DAVID: No, it doesn't to me.

It's late 19th, early 20th century.

Now, is it silver?

Can I just turn the back around?

DIANNE: Yes.

DAVID: So, I'm just going to look for some hallmarks.

It's very rubbed, but it's... can you see that mark?

DIANNE: And that means it's silver?

DAVID: It's silver.

And definitely around that time, 1910, 1912.

That's so cool.

I've never actually been able to tell if a piece of jewelry is like, legit.

I think... Well, I don't know how much it is.

No ticket on it?

No, there's no ticket.

So, shall we just put it aside for now?

DIANNE: Yeah.

DAVID: Yeah.

DIANNE: OK, let's do that.

DAVID: OK. We'll see how much it is, and then I can...I can have a little decide on that.

DAVID: Alright.

We'll leave that there... DIANNE: Yeah.

OK. DAVID: ..for us later.

VO: While Dianne ponders the opal... ..Owain and Hettie are almost in the Vale of Glamorgan.

So what do you really, really want to buy on this trip, then?

I would love a little "broochette" or two.

VO: Indeedy.

Owain became well known for his partiality to a pin when presenting the weather.

You love jewelry, don't you?

Yes, jewelry is my thing.

OWAIN: Yeah.

So, if we can find some lovely brooches or maybe a nice bracelet or something... Oh, yes.

HETTIE: ..just something absolutely stunning.

VO: They have so much in common.

Now, in the market town of Cowbridge, voted the best place to live in Wales in 2017, Owain's taking Hettie to a shop he loves.

OWAIN: Well, we are well and truly on my stomping ground.

HETTIE: Yes?

I've been here too many times to mention.

Have you?

OWAIN: One of my favorite places.

HETTIE: Are you going to show me around, then?

OWAIN: Yes, I'll show you around.

HETTIE: If you've been here so many times!

OWAIN: So much great stuff in here, honestly.

HETTIE: Good.

VO: He's making himself right at home at Happy Days Vintage store, with curios, large and small.

Cath's in charge today.

Oh, Hettie, look at this!

Have you seen these?

Ah!

So there was a shop right at the bottom of my grandparents' road... Yeah?

..when they lived in Ammanford on, like, a council estate.

And I remember there being scales like this in the shop.

OWAIN: Mr and Mrs Aldiss's shop.

HETTIE: Yeah.

HETTIE: Ah!

OWAIN: Yeah, I love them.

When do you reckon they are from?

The '50s, maybe?

I don't know.

HETTIE: Yeah, they're mid-century, aren't they?

It's a grocer's scale.

Was it a grocer's shop...?

Yeah, it was.

So how much are they?

68 quid.

HETTIE: I don't think they're going to make much more auction.

So, in terms of profit, I don't think this is the one.

Oh, but I love it.

Shall we think about it?

We'll think about that one.

Let's put these weights back on in case someone wants to weigh their bananas.

BOTH: (CHUCKLE) VO: On balance, Hettie thinks the scales aren't worth it, but there's plenty more to weigh up in here.

HETTIE: Owain?

OWAIN: Yes?

HETTIE: I found something that might be your kind of thing.

Oh, look at that!

HETTIE: So, obviously, you were a weather presenter.

OWAIN: Yes, I was.

And air pressure, temperature, obviously a really big part of presenting the weather.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: And this is a barometer.

VO: Actually, an aneroid barometer.

So there's no mercury.

I reckon this isn't for me.

HETTIE: OK, that's fine.

That's alright.

Well, maybe we'll find something that is very you.

Yeah.

Oh, can't wait.

But I've loved seeing it.

And, you know, it looks to be quite accurate, as well.

Good!

(LAUGHS) Just like my weather forecasts were.

HETTIE: Oh, of course!

(LAUGHS) VO: Mm... Owain's feeling rather fair-weather about the finds in his favorite antique shop so far.

How are Dianne and David getting on back in Cardiff?

DAVID: Dianne, I need all the help I can get.

DIANNE: OK. DAVID: Right.

Are you ready?

Yep, I'm ready.

OK. Dianne, grab hold of that.

DIANNE: OK. DAVID: First of all... Oh, gosh, that's heavy.

DAVID: Exactly.

DIANNE: Wow.

Tell me what it is.

DIANNE: It is a gold plate... DAVID: Yes.

DIANNE: ..with rabbits on it.

DAVID: Excellent.

VO: It's an ancient proverb, which translates as three hares sharing three ears, yet every one of them has two.

Ha!

Handy!

DAVID: These are hares.

And that shape of the three hares in that cycle represent the cycle of life.

And that symbol is an ancient medieval symbol.

Ooh, now I'm interested.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, exactly.

It's a bit religious, a bit spiritual.

Yeah!

DAVID: It kind of represents the cycle of life.

I think that's amazing.

How much is it?

DAVID: Have a look at the ticket.

DIANNE: 50.

DAVID: 50.

Is it worth 50?

I'd say it's worth 50.

Yeah.

I mean, this is something you just take a bit of a chance on.

Yeah, exactly.

Ooh, I like it.

Let's take a chance on it.

DAVID: I think we should.

Come on, let's go and buy it.

I need a hand holding it.

VO: Time to find the price of that pendant.

Dealer Ian, gird your loins!

Where is he?

Oh, there he is.

Hello, Ian.

Hi, Ian.

Yes.

Can I help you?

I am wondering if this plate... DAVID: Thing.

DIANNE: We're not actually sure what it is.

Do we think we can get any taken off this or is 50 the asking price?

For you, a fiver off.

Perfect.

Yeah, we'll take that.

And also, I was wondering how much the necklace is that I was looking at before?

A round 100 will be the death on that.

DIANNE: OK. Around 100.

Does that mean...?

A round hundred.

DAVID: Does that mean 80 or 100?

IAN: No, absolutely, a round hundred.

DAVID: Around 100.

DIANNE: Ah, a round hundred.

IAN: A round hundred... DAVID: Oh, a round hundred!

A round hundred.

I thought too, I was like, oh... To go with your round plaque.

DAVID: Got you.

Got you.

OK. DIANNE: OK.

So... DAVID: It's 100.

DIANNE: A hundred flat.

I'm going to also take that.

So I'll take both of those, please.

IAN: OK. DAVID: Right, OK. VO: That's 145 in total.

DIANNE: That's 100... VO: She now has 215 left to spend.

DIANNE: ..and 45.

Thank you so much.

IAN: Thank you very much.

DIANNE: Thank you.

Let's go.

Right, let's go and grab the necklace and get out of here.

DIANNE: Success!

DAVID: Success, alright.

I'm so excited about this.

VO: Meanwhile, 13 miles away in Cowbridge... HETTIE: Owain?

OWAIN: Hello... (GASPS) I found something that might appeal to you.

OWAIN: Yes!

Is it too understated, though?

Well, I mean, size-wise, this is smaller than the usual brooch, but, you know, sometimes less is more, darling.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: Less is more.

Exactly.

And this is so gorgeous.

What a dainty little piece!

So what...?

What is it?

I know it's a brooch.

So it's enameled, which I am a big, big fan of.

It's very much in the art nouveau style, that sort of floral style.

I'm just going to have a look at who it's by.

So there's no maker's mark on that one.

But I have also noticed this one.

OWAIN: Oh, how cute!

HETTIE: How snazzy is that?

It's in the form of a buckle.

OWAIN: Yeah!

HETTIE: Yeah.

Really nice, isn't it?

That is so adorable.

Look at the little detail on it!

It's so cute, isn't it?

Yeah.

Now, let's have a look at this one.

So this is by a very good maker.

So it's by someone called Charles Horner.

VO: Horner was a pioneering silversmith, who founded a jewelry business in Halifax in the 1860s.

Look at it very, very carefully.

There's a sort of an under pattern to the enamel.

Oh, yeah!

So that's been done onto the silver and they've enameled over the top of it.

That's called guilloche and it's really, really clever.

It just gives it like a 3D effect.

OWAIN: Yeah.

HETTIE: So they're nice, quality pieces.

OWAIN: I love these.

HETTIE: Yeah.

Do you?

HETTIE: The two together?

OWAIN: I really love them, yeah.

Do you know what I love about these, as well?

You know, as someone who collects brooches, I normally go for the more costume-jewelry-type things, that are going to look good on TV or whatever, or complement a different color of a suit.

But these are more dainty, but... Yeah.

..have got much more interest, I think.

Yes, they've got a history to them.

They are solid silver.

Right.

So they've got a lot going for them.

They've got £25 on each one.

(GASPS) Ah!

Can do a bit of haggling.

I think we've got to get them.

Buy the two together.

Definitely.

What a good auction lot they would be together.

Yeah, I'd buy them.

Would you?

So I think we need to buy them.

Fabulous.

OK, let's go and ask about them, shall we?

Yes, let's.

VO: Let's see what Cath can do.

OWAIN: Cath, how are you?

Hello.

Nice to see you again.

How are you?

I'm really well, and you?

Well, I'm always happy when I'm in here, Cath, and we've been very happy today, haven't we?

We have.

We've had a lovely time.

Have you found anything interesting?

We have indeed.

We really, really like these brooches.

So, you've got £25 on each of them?

Yeah.

What's the best price you think you could do... For the pair?

..for a regular like me, Cath?

HETTIE: (LAUGHS) CATH: Um, right.

OK. How would 45 sound?

Oh, go on, then.

Yeah, you happy with that?

45, yeah.

I'm happy with 45.

OWAIN: Are you?

HETTIE: Yeah, we'll go... Because we love them.

We'd like you to do well at auction with them.

VO: Nice and simple.

Just how we like it.

Owain now has £105 remaining.

HETTIE: Right!

OWAIN: See you later, Cath!

HETTIE: Hit the road.

OWAIN: Bye!

Let's hit the road.

OWAIN: Well, a successful day, I think.

HETTIE: I think we've had a brilliant day.

And I really like everything we've bought.

Let's celebrate.

HETTIE: (LAUGHS) VO: First day of shopping done.

Time to reunite our celebrity chums.

Ah, babette, the end of the day!

Ah, what a fun-filled day!

But it was so much fun, wasn't it?

DIANNE: It was so much fun.

You know, regardless who wins or who loses, you know, I don't like to use the word, "loses" because we're both winners, aren't we?

I'm sure what you got is amazing, and I'm thrilled to bits with my pieces.

OWAIN: Are you?

DIANNE: Yeah.

(ENGINE CLANKS) Oh!

Sorry... DIANNE: Oh, way to... OWAIN: It stalled.

Oh, way to end the... Way to end the day!

What's going on?

VO: Hope it's not too long before you get it restarted.

(ENGINE STUTTERS) VO: Nighty night!

OWAIN: This car is going to be like, "Thank God I've seen the last of him driving it."

VO: We've not seen enough of you guys, and there's still lots of Cymru to see.

DIANNE: I must say, it is so beautiful around Wales.

Stunning, babe.

Absolutely stunning.

Well, I mean, my birthplace, you know, a beautiful thing comes from a beautiful place.

Exactly.

I wouldn't expect any less.

VO: Though Owain and Dianne must be feeling a little nervy, as there's a lot to learn on the Road Trip.

You teach people to dance when you're teaching your celebs on Strictly.

Mm-hm.

But now you're being taught loads by David about antiques.

Genuinely, I'm absolutely loving it and I feel like David is teaching me all the right things.

He's brilliant, and I do...

I almost feel like he's, like, my dance partner in this.

Yeah, I bet.

DIANNE: I love it.

That's so great.

VO: That, we'd like to see!

As Dianne and Owain meet back with Hettie and David, will they be jiving or plain jealous as the contents of the boot are revealed?

Owain's lots are up first.

OWAIN: Shall we pop it?

DIANNE: Ooh!

OWAIN: Ooh... DIANNE: Oh, my word!

OWAIN: Look!

DIANNE: I am drawn to the Titanic-looking, "I've come from the bottom of the ocean" light.

Yeah, it does give that kind of vibe, doesn't it?

OWAIN: When we saw that piece, it's not what came to mind with us, was it?

HETTIE: No!

DIANNE: No.

So, that's a Fresnel stage light.

Stunning.

I love that you know the actual name.

Well, you know, I have a penchant for the stage lighting.

DIANNE: You do.

VO: With £400 to spend, Owain positively lit up when he spotted the stage lamp... ..along with the 20th century motorsport signs and brooches.

OWAIN: I normally go for the more costume jewelry... Yeah.

But these are more dainty.

VO: He now has £105 remaining.

What does he think of Dianne's haul?

OWAIN: I'm just going to ask about this puppet.

I mean, it looks the perfect mix of terrifying and quite cute.

DIANNE: Yeah.

HETTIE: (CHUCKLES) She was drawn to it, and within moments she was operating it brilliantly.

DAVID: She was tap dancing.

DIANNE: Tap dancing.

What else was she doing?

She was twerking... She was twerking.

VO: Shake it, sister.

Yesterday, Dianne danced a jig with deals on the Pelham puppet, an opal pendant and German bronze plate.

DIANNE: This is something you just take a bit of a chance on.

DAVID: Yeah.

Exactly.

Ooh, I like it.

Let's take a chance on it.

DAVID: I think we should.

VO: She now has £215 left to spend.

Are you more confident or less confident now you've seen Team B's items?

Oh, I'm much more confident now, yeah.

DAVID: Me, too.

DIANNE: Yeah!

OWAIN: Also, "Team B"?!

HETTIE: Yeah!

Hello!

Yeah.

Yeah, well, the star is in Team A, so... DAVID: Yeah, exactly.

The star can only be in A. OWAIN: We'll be... DIANNE: Exactly.

Well, fair enough.

We'll see.

We'll see who'll have the last laugh, won't we?

VO: And on that bombshell, Hettie and Owain are leaving Dianne and David for dust.

HETTIE: So you're a drummer?

OWAIN: Yes.

VO: He doesn't miss a beat.

Owain has been playing the drums since the age of seven, showing off his talents after presenting the weather on BBC News.

And in 2021, he raised £2.5 million for Children In Need with a 24-hour Drumathon.

HETTIE: Shall we find some sort of drumming-related antiques?

Oh, I'd love that!

Yeah, vintage drums or something.

OWAIN: Vintage drums do, I think, sell well and people collect them... Mm.

..but I imagine they're quite hard to come across.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know a huge amount about drums, to be honest, but if we can find a good set, I imagine they're quite expensive.

VO: Put that thought on hold because we're all heading back to Cardiff for a music lesson like no other.

Dianne and David are exploring a Cardiff institution to discover the secrets behind a shop that's traded for some 125 years.

Because whether it's instruments, radios or records, there's a real history to the objects connecting people with music.

DAVID: Wow.

DIANNE: Hi, Ashli.

Hi, nice to meet you.

DAVID & DIANNE: Hello.

DIANNE: Lovely to meet you!

ASHLI: Welcome.

Croeso.

Does it take you back to being a kid, rooting around for LPs?

Did you buy LPs?

I never bought an LP.

I don't even know what an LP is!

It's one of these.

DIANNE: Oh... VO: It stands for long player, of course, 22 minutes on each side and this shop's format of choice.

Ashli owns this glittering treasure trove of vinyl, the oldest record store in the world.

But when Henry Spiller opened his music store in 1894, the record format of choice wasn't vinyl, it was wax cylinders, the cutting edge tech of its day.

Ashli has a rare survivor.

In 1877, basically, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.

DAVID: Yeah?

And these are the wax cylinders.

I mean, originally, they were hand-cranked and foil material to start with, and the sound quality was very, very, very quiet.

VO: Phonograph cylinders are the earliest physical record-playing format, enabling listeners to get their musical kicks at home without the need of an instrument or a musician.

ASHLI: What I find absolutely fascinating about it is the fact that you could only get one track on there.

It must have been a prized possession to have pre-recorded music available.

Do you think that today we take that instant access to music completely for granted?

Because if you go back to 1877, that would have cost an absolute fortune to buy.

People's love and connection with music is something that we see here and experience en masse.

En masse, yes.

VO: Coinciding with the peak of the technological revolution, wax cylinders changed how people listened to music at the dawn of mass consumption, and other formats were introduced in its wake.

But nothing else caught the public's imagination as much as the release of the first vinyl record some 50 years later in 1948.

When we have chats with people about their passion for vinyl, I think the thing that we hear really frequently that everyone can relate to is the thing that you can't replicate, that a vinyl listening experience gives, is you are present in the moment.

So, one of the things that I get drawn to when listening to a record is the sound quality of it, which maybe isn't as good as some things that you hear in the modern day.

But for me, that's what I like about it.

VO: It's not just a rich sound that vinyl offers, though.

On its introduction, the format made emerging music, like jazz, folk and rock and roll more readily available to young people, instigating social change.

ASHLI: Flying the flag for the underground and the misfits and the sort of counter-culture, you know, which is all really, really important stuff.

VO: On the other side of Cardiff, Owain and Hettie are keen to get in on the act.

They're booked in to record a track at Musicbox Studios.

OWAIN: One, two, three, four.

HETTIE: (DRUMS) One, two, three, four...

Perfect.

Nailed it.

VO: Not just banging on about his drumming abilities, Owain's agreed to teach Hettie a trill or two before taking over to lay down a funky rhythm that will be turned into a special vinyl record.

It's very similar to what you played actually, but with a bit more flourish.

OK. here we go... VO: That boy can play!

That was honestly amazing.

Just a little something, darling... Just a something!

(LAUGHS) Incredible.

VO: Now, while chart-topping vinyl is usually manufactured at factories where it's pressed from a master, Owain is taking his to the UK's only female lathe cutter of vinyl records.

OWAIN: Well, Tasha, who would have thought that all of this exists here?

VO: Lathe-cut records etch the grooves - which are essentially sound waves - into vinyl discs in real time.

Our way, we use a lathe, and it's the reverse of how a record is played.

So we play the music through the stylus and it cuts it into the record.

Do you want to have a go at lowering it?

OWAIN: Oh, my gosh, yes.

Drop this down slowly?

TASHA: Yeah, lower it gently.

VO: The sound waves are sent to the needle and on to the disc from a digital file.

It's impossible for me to comprehend that it's coming out of a needle.

(RECORDING OF DRUMMING PLAYS) Wow.

VO: The vinyl LP undoubtedly generated a huge moment for music, paving the way for digital formats we now take for granted.

Those vinyl aficionados David and Dianne will decide if Owain's track cuts it.

OWAIN: Come on, you two.

DIANNE: Ooh!

Come on in.

VO: Looking rock and roll!

But how does it sound?

(RECORDING OF DRUMMING PLAYS) DAVID: Wow!

Here we go!

Let's all air-drum!

DAVID: Oh!

OWAIN: A bit of head-banging.

DIANNE: Ah, cool!

OWAIN: Yeah, babe!

VO: Viva la vinyl!

Especially those unique and limited lathe-cut editions.

DIANNE: Oh, that was fun...!

DAVID: That was brilliant.

But now, we've got to go and spend a lot of money if we can.

I know.

We've got a competition to win here.

DAVID: Let's do it.

DIANNE: Let's go.

DIANNE: Lovely... DAVID: Fabulous.

Off she goes.

DIANNE: (CHUCKLES) VO: With £215 still to spend, what will tempt her at Bridgend Antiques?

Collectibles?

Kitsch ceramics or...cute pets?

DIANNE: Our final shop!

DAVID: Yep.

Let's see what it has in store.

DAVID: And you've got loads of money in that handbag.

DIANNE: I do... DAVID: Loads of money.

Come on, Lucy.

There you go.

VO: Are those sausages?

DAVID: Is that nice?

Oh... You're a nice dog.

DAVID: Have we found your twin?!

Look at that!

DIANNE: I have!

It's me in disguise.

DAVID: (LAUGHS) It's brilliant.

DIANNE: I love it.

So, let me just hand you those.

DIANNE: Ooh...!

DAVID: Just have a feel of them.

DIANNE: Does it say Roman?!

DAVID: Roman.

Yeah.

DIANNE: Joe would love this.

VO: Dianne's former Strictly partner, and now real-life partner, Joe Sugg has just joined around 30,000 other Brits by taking up metal detecting.

I almost just want to buy one of these just to bury it in the backyard so he can like... Yeah, that's an idea.

DIANNE: ..so he can get excited over it.

DAVID: And do you know how much it would cost you to do that?

DIANNE: I mean, it says "six Roman coins..." DAVID: Yeah.

DIANNE: ..£35 or £5 each.

DAVID: There you have it.

These are...

The small one - the sesterces coins.

DIANNE: Right.

They're little coins, and you'll find them, actually, even today, in abundance.

VO: Unlikely to turn heads - or tails - at auction, then, ha!

It's exciting that I got to see an actual Roman coin.

Mm.

DIANNE: For Joe - there you go, Joe.

DAVID: There you go.

DIANNE: But we'll put it back.

Keep metal detecting, Joe.

That's what you need to say to him.

DIANNE: Keep metal detecting, we like it.

VO: They came and saw, but haven't conquered in Bridgend just yet.

Owain and Hettie, meanwhile, have made their way to Merthyr Tydfil, a town named after the 5th century princess St Tydfil the martyr.

HETTIE: The final shop.

What are we going to find?

Oh, my gosh.

It's so exciting.

Let's have a look.

VO: Kelly's on hand to accept Owain's offering.

OWAIN: Hello.

KELLY: Hello.

OWAIN: How are you?

KELLY: I'm fine.

HETTIE: Lovely to meet you!

Nice to meet you.

We're looking forward to looking around your gorgeous place here.

See if there's anything that takes your fancy and give me a shout.

Will do.

Thank you.

VO: Halfway Trading has two floors' worth of heavenly collectables.

There's some familiar stuff in here... She got hers to twerk, didn't she?

HETTIE: Yeah.

How did she manage...?

OWAIN: Oh, my gosh, it twerks!

HETTIE: Does it?

Yeah.

If I just go... OWAIN: Oh!

She's twerking.

HETTIE: No way!

Oh!

Look at that.

Incredible.

VO: It takes two to tango, but let's make a "quickstep" deeper into the shop.

Hettie, look at these.

Now, I don't know if they're worth anything.

You see them everywhere.

Yes.

OWAIN: But these little cutesy dogs remind me so much of my mam-gu, my grandmother, in Wales.

HETTIE: Aw!

OWAIN: Because she had some.

OWAIN: The grandmother on my other side, Nana, she also had them.

VO: Inspired by King Charles spaniels, this was popular pottery to have on the mantelpiece from the 19th century onwards.

These ones are actually by a good maker called Beswick, a very well-known maker.

OWAIN: Right.

HETTIE: Having said that, they don't sell well at all at auction.

Oh, really?

You can't give them away.

Even the bigger ones.

OWAIN: Yeah.

HETTIE: £10... Aw!

..for a pair of bigger ones.

So, probably not something we should be buying.

OWAIN: No.

HETTIE: But...

But interesting to look at and very nostalgic for me.

Yes.

Aw!

OWAIN: Put them there.

Bye, spaniels!

VO: Are David and Dianne barking up the right tree back in Bridgend?

They have £215 left, remember.

DAVID: Delicious cabinets full of stuff!

DIANNE: Yes... How would you fancy buying a very big collection of something?

DIANNE: I wouldn't say no to it.

Have a look at the sign down there.

It says Hummel and Goebel.

DIANNE: Yes...?

DAVID: £250 for the whole collection.

So I actually think buying that a collection and trying to sell it is... DAVID: Yeah.

It's quite interesting.

..wise because there's so many there.

DAVID: That collection at 250 quid, probably 30-odd pieces... DIANNE: Mm.

..20 years ago, would have been double that.

Right!

DAVID: So, this antiques business is very fickle.

DIANNE: It's very fickle!

DAVID: Yeah, it is.

But I do love the idea of not just selling one thing, just selling loads of them.

DIANNE: Yeah, I...

It'd be exciting, wouldn't it?

It would be really exciting.

And I wonder if there is someone at that auction that is just like, "Oh, my gosh..." Yeah.

"..this is my dream."

And I feel like there's going to be someone there, that this is their dream.

I think we should do it.

It's exciting.

This is going to be our biggest purchase yet.

DAVID: Yeah.

DIANNE: But I think we need to take the gamble.

VO: Time to place their bets with shopkeeper Julian.

Right.

Over to you... Let's see you do it.

JULIAN: Hello, Dianne, David.

DIANNE: Hello!

What have you pair got your eyes on, then?

So, this was David's little find.

Oh, you're blaming me already!

DIANNE: I'm blaming David.

It's the safe option.

It is.

DIANNE: We really like this Hummel collection.

JULIAN: They're Hummel and Goebel figures.

They're from the 1920s even made up to the present day.

You've got 200 for the lot.

I have got 250 for the lot as a job collection.

250 for the lot, oh.

Nice try!

Nice try!

DIANNE: I'm already trying my technique.

That's good, I like it.

DIANNE: I was wondering, what's your best price you could do me, then?

As a job lot, 35 figures... £200.

Sold.

And I've got an empty shelf then to fill up.

DAVID: Brilliant, OK. DIANNE: Yes, let's take them.

JULIAN: OK. DAVID: Julian... DIANNE: You've got a deal.

JULIAN: Thank you very much.

And I'll start wrapping.

VO: That means Dianne has spent £385 in total.

DAVID: Cheers.

JULIAN: Cheers, now... DIANNE: Thank you.

DAVID: Navigating my way out!

DIANNE: Oh...!

Whoa... Big spender!

Big spender.

VO: Has Owain found something to splash his cash on back in Merthyr Tydfil?

He has £105 left.

Oh, hi, babe, it's me.

Just a very quick message to say...I'm going to win!

Lots of love.

Are you browsing?

I am.

I'm having a bit of a rummage in this box.

Ooh, found anything nice?

I have.

A solid silver pocket watch.

So, we know this is solid silver because, if you have a look in the back of here... ..so you've got the lion marks, that means it's British silver.

You've got a letter which tells you which date it was made, which year it was made, and which assay office hallmarked it.

So this is the office of Chester and these are quite collectable because the Chester assay office closed down in 1962.

They haven't assayed anything in Chester since then.

So we want to know what this date letter is.

So if we have a look at that, we'll be able to know exactly when it was made.

I'm thinking sort of circa 1900.

HETTIE: So, it's got age to it.

OWAIN: Wow.

And it's smart-looking, as well.

I like it.

Are you into timepieces at all?

I mean, I do love pocket watches just because there's something quite debonair about them, OWAIN: ..isn't there, I think.

HETTIE: Yeah.

Very stylish.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

But the other thing I like about this is the chain.

OWAIN: Right.

HETTIE: Because this is called a muff chain or a long guard chain and they were worn by ladies during the Georgian and Victorian period.

And as you can see, it's very, very long.

That is great because people wear them as necklaces.

So you'd have it wrapped around a few times, maybe have a little pendant attached to the bottom of it.

HETTIE: So it's got a clip here.

OWAIN: I see.

Yeah.

So they're very, very versatile, very wearable.

People love to wear them these days.

Yeah.

So you've got two things going on here.

You've got pocket watch collectors wanting that.

You've got jewelry lovers wanting to buy that.

That's great.

So it's like a two-in-one.

Yes, it is.

And it's got £80 on it.

OWAIN: Good.

Which I think is a very fair price.

OWAIN: Oh, perfect.

HETTIE: So... Well, I really like it.

HETTIE: Yeah.

OWAIN: And I think that with all the extra bits of interest, as well, that looks good to me.

Yeah.

Well, if you love it, as well...

Yes...

I think we should definitely get that.

HETTIE: OK, fab.

VO: Time's a-ticking.

Let's see what Kelly can do.

OWAIN: Hello, Kelly.

KELLY: Hello.

Hi.

We've found something that we really like, Kelly.

We have.

Thank you.

It's this gorgeous pocket watch.

Hettie's been telling me that it's quite special, and it's...

I think it's adorable.

It says £80 on it.

What's your best price?

75?

How about...how about 70?

Go on, then.

VO: It means Owain's finished his road trip with £35 to spare.

OWAIN: See you again, Kelly.

HETTIE: Thank you...!

OWAIN & KELLY: Bye.

Are you pleased with that?

I'm very pleased.

I love it!

Good.

We should make some good money on that.

OWAIN: Ooh, fingers crossed.

Wonderful, darling.

VO: Sure enough, Owain and Dianne are exhausted after a very special shopping day.

Mission complete!

I feel quite emotional.

DIANNE: Do you?!

I guess now all we have to wait for is the auction.

The auc-show-nay!

The auc-show-nah-nee!

Oh, my gosh, babe, are you feeling nervous for the auc-she-oh-nee?

Oh!

I'm feeling more nervous with you driving this car!

DIANNE: (LAUGHS) VO: Time for the babettes to get some shuteye.

VO: Our celeb chums began their trip in Pontypool and have now made it to their grand auction finale in Bath.

They're meeting back with David and Hettie at Auctioneum Auctions.

OWAIN: Oh, my goodness.

DIANNE: Here it is!

HETTIE: Today is... OWAIN: Woo!

DAVID: It's very good-looking, isn't it?

DIANNE: It is.

VO: The auction room is a delight with bidders awaiting antiques in the room and a whole lot more standing by the phones and online.

Making sure all is as it should be is auctioneer Jay Goodman.

With our telephone buyer, at 100... VO: Owain spent £365 on five lots.

Anything tickling your fancy, Jay?

The two silver enamel brooch pins are actually one of my favorite lots.

They're just beautifully enameled.

I'm a big fan of enamel work and when you see it in such fine detail on a small bit of jewelry, it just shines through of the craftsmanship of the maker.

VO: Dianne spent £385 on five items.

What do you like, Jay?

The art nouveau-style pendant necklace is a great piece.

Obviously, art nouveau jewelry is just timeless in its design.

It's something that's very much commercial and you'll see it realize a good price here at auction.

VO: Sounds promising.

Time for the gang to take their seats.

Nice shirt, Owain!

So, how are you feeling?

I'm feeling so excited.

Is this your very first auction ever selling?

DIANNE: Ever.

DAVID: Ever?!

DIANNE: (WHISPERS) Yes.

OWAIN: Yeah.

Wow.

What an experience you're about to have...good or bad!

Yeah.

And I can't think of a finer group of people to share this moment with.

DAVID: No!

DIANNE: Oh, I know.

Are you feeling confident?

Super confident, babe.

Same.

I'm super, super confident.

VO: That's the spirit!

First up, it's Dianne's original dancing Pelham puppet.

I'm really excited about the doll.

I really hope people know how to work it...

I know.

..and work it and twerk it, you know what I mean?

Start me at 15 if I ask.

15 I have.

18, sir.

At £18.

After 20... Are we all done and be sure...?

JAY: At 18.

Thank you very much.

DAVID: There you go, 18... DIANNE: I'm happy with that.

DAVID: Yeah.

VO: Well done.

Someone else will be pulling her strings from here on in.

One thing I've learned with the items that you both have here today is that people have money to throw away...you know?

VO: Next Owain and Hettie's early-20th century brooches.

It's the broochettes next.

I love the fact you call them broochettes.

Well, for me, they're more than a brooch, darling, you know... What gives it the little extra, why is it a broochette not a brooch?

It's a broochette because it presents itself in a very dainty kind of way.

Yes.

It's pretty...

It's not, "I'm here, I'm a brooch, more is more."

It's small, it's dainty, it's a broochette.

Somebody start me at £60 if you will?

Start me at 40 and away, then.

Any interest there at £40?

40 I'm bid again there.

Any more?

Or are we all done at 40...?

DIANNE: (WAILS) Oh!

OWAIN: Oh... That's alright.

We'll take that.

That's fine.

That's actually really surprising.

Where are the broochette lovers?

VO: Do you know, they're tricky to pin down these days, ha-ha!

HETTIE: That is a shame, isn't it?

DAVID: Yeah... OWAIN: Are you sad?

I am sad, yeah.

I did really like them, as well.

VO: Dianne and David are hoping to strike it lucky with a 1950s French Bakelite lighter.

I think it's really cool.

It's just a great novelty thing.

And as Hettie knows, novelty sells in this business.

DIANNE: Mm.

Everybody wants a bit of unusual stuff.

DIANNE: Yes.

DAVID: Yes.

Somebody start me at £60 if you will?

Start me at 40 and away, then.

40 I'm bid now on the table lighter.

Are we all done and be sure, then?

On the maiden bid, selling...

But we still made a tenner.

VO: All profit's good profit.

We're not in the neggos yet.

No, no... Neggos!

I like that.

I'm going to steal that.

VO: Owain and Hettie are hoping time's on their side with the early-20th century pocket watch.

As a man of sophistication...

..I like to think...that this is going to do alright.

Yeah.

We've got lots of different interest across the board on this one, mainly with commission here, and it allows me to go straight in at £40, with me on commission.

45.

50 here with me.

DIANNE: Oh, my God!

OWAIN: Oh.

JAY: At 55.

60 here with me.

OWAIN: Yes!

Look at it.

At 60.

65 here with me.

Any more for any more?

Or are we all done at £65?

And selling... HETTIE & OWAIN: (GROAN) DIANNE: (WAILS) Oh... DAVID: Aww... VO: Someone's pocketed a lovely timepiece and chain - or necklace.

Aw...!

OWAIN: You are so insincere!

DIANNE: I'm really... ..sad about that.

I am going to break off our friendship, I've decided!

VO: Next, it's Dianne and David's opal pendant necklace.

DAVID: You loved it.

DIANNE: I did.

And it was a quality thing.

Oh!

It is.

I mean, look at it.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

It is stunning.

It's 100% my kind of thing.

I love it.

DAVID: Very much Hettie.

DIANNE: OK. Lots of watchers, lots of interest online on this lot.

JAY: Somebody start me at £60... DIANNE: Lots of interest!

..but we'll see where it goes.

100 I am bid now.

DIANNE: Oh, my God!

JAY: At 110.

OK, I'm a bit worried now.

Come on!

£110.

Do I see 120 anywhere then?

At 110... Oh, that's OK. That's OK. We're still up.

VO: Not a bad bit of profit.

That was very good.

I thought it was going to fly, actually.

I did, too, but, I mean, still... (SOFTLY) ..we're up.

VO: Next, Owain's biggest spend - the three retro motorsport signs.

We threw money at them because they sang to us.

DAVID: Did they?

HETTIE: Yeah, they did.

Somebody start me at £50 if you will?

50 I have straight in now.

HETTIE: Straight in, of course!

OWAIN: Oh!

Now 55.

And 60, then.

Do I see five anywhere?

65, new bidder.

After 70?

70 is there.

Are we all done and be sure?

No.

75.

It's selling at 75... DIANNE: Oh!

HETTIE: Oh, no.

You lost about 100 there!

VO: Worry not, Owain, that's not the checkered flag.

You've more lots to come.

HETTIE: Are you OK?

Are you OK?

OWAIN: We're OK, we're OK. DIANNE: Well done, though!

HETTIE: We got through it.

DAVID: Yeah, well done!

DIANNE: A good effort!

VO: Dianne and David are serving up the bronze plate now.

I've never seen anything like it.

And I feel like people are going to know that and they're going to... (CLICKS TONGUE) It's one of those things... DIANNE: ..climb up the ladder.

DAVID: Yeah, you can't value.

DIANNE: Mm.

DAVID: And it could be anything.

Any interest there at 60?

60, I have now.

Don't miss a trick at £60, then.

On the maiden, and selling... DAVID: Oh... Anti-climax.

DIANNE: Mm.

David, you really bigged that up.

I know I did, yeah.

Um, you bigged it up, as well.

We were all really bigging that up.

VO: Not bad, though.

I was expecting a couple of zeros.

Yeah, so was I, yeah.

Sorry for being a disappointment.

VO: Owain and Hettie are hoping to brighten things up with the mid-20th century stage lamp.

You wanted to keep it, didn't you?

I loved it so much, I wanted to take it home.

Somebody start me at £60 if you will.

Very much in fashion and vogue, this is.

60 I have, straight in, then.

Do I see five anywhere?

At 60 after five?

Are we done and be sure...at 60...?

(GAVEL) DAVID: Goodness me!

OWAIN: Aw... DIANNE: (WAILS) VO: Seems to have cast a dark shadow.

It's getting awkward in here... Can you stop loving this, please?

We were friends!

VO: Next - Dianne's last lot, the Hummel collection, her biggest spend and biggest gamble.

Hold on to your hats.

DIANNE: Goebel?

DAVID: Goebel.

Goebel.

Hummel and Goebel.

Yes.

I believe we've got a telephone bid connected on this lot.

DIANNE & DAVID: What?!

Start me at 80 and away.

I won't drop any lower on this.

I'll offer it to the telephone at £80.

Would they like to bid 80?

At £80 on the Hummel figures?

Could be a bargain.

£80 is bid on our telephone.

DIANNE: Oh!

DAVID: ..got 80.

Five.

Are we all done?

85.

90.

At £90, bid on our telephone again.

Yes, 90!

Come on.

JAY: Five if you will, then?

All the Hummel figures, 95.

100?

At 95.

100 is bid on the telephone... DAVID: (WHISPERS) Yes, yes.

JAY: ..there now, thank you.

With our telephone buyer at 100... DAVID: (GROANS) DIANNE: Oh...!

That's a bit gutting.

VO: Not quite the figures they were hoping for, ha!

Someone's gonna have a whole collection and I don't know what they're going to do with them, but congratulations to them.

VO: Last but certainly not least, it's Owain's painted bargeware-style stool.

And we saw it and thought, "Got to have, got to have," so we bought it.

Exactly.

Let's hope that somebody else in this room... DAVID: Yes.

..has a similar connec-shon!

DAVID: Right.

Somebody start me at £40, if you will.

Any interest there at 40?

40 I'm bid, straight in then.

40's bid straight in.

There at 40 then.

Do I see five anywhere?

£40, and selling then, on the maiden bid... DIANNE: Aw...!

DAVID: Maiden bid.

DAVID: Well done, you two.

HETTIE: Well done!

HETTIE: That was your choice!

OWAIN: I'm really happy.

VO: Kept us on the edge of our seats.

Well done.

Let's go and find out what the result is!

Yeah.

I think we know.

I think we know.

I think we know.

We can walk out with smiles.

We don't know anything!

VO: Denial can be the best approach.

But totting it all up, Owain started with £400 and spent 365.

After costs, he made a loss of £135 and 40p, leaving him with £264.60.

Dianne started with the same sum.

She spent £385 and after saleroom fees, she also made a loss of £116 and 4p.

Which means she ends up with £283.96.

She lost the least, and is declared the winner!

Well, what a day!

DIANNE: Hasn't it been amazing?

OWAIN: It's been gorgeous.

DIANNE: I've loved it!

Loved every second.

OWAIN: Mm-hm.

DIANNE: But I think we, uh... Shall we head off?

DIANNE: ..we need to get back to our day jobs.

DIANNE: Thank you so much...

I had the best time with you!

DIANNE: I loved it.

DAVID: Brilliant.

I'll see you soon for some more antique shopping.

DAVID: We will go antique shopping.

OWAIN: Bye, darlings.

DAVID: Bye bye.

VO: It's been quite an adventure.

OWAIN: I'm going to drop you off here, if that's alright, babe.

DIANNE: That'd be great.

OWAIN: By these trees.

DIANNE: OK, fabulous.

Yeah, I'll...call Joe to pick me up.

OWAIN: Do you know what?

Because I'm nice, I'll give you a lift home.

DIANNE: Oh, thanks, babe.

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