Antiques
Antique dealers and collectable experts who know everything there is to know about ceramics and furniture, jewellery, glass, fashion, tapestries and more.
David Battie F.R.S.A.
Acclaimed Speaker and Leading Ceramics Expert David Battie is an ex-director of Sothebys with a worldwide knowledge of works of art and has apeared on the BBCs Antiques Roadshow since the very first programme.
Paul Hayes
Paul Hayes is an energetic young antiques expert who was discovered by the BBC and is now a resident antiques expert on Cash in the Attic.He’s very entertaining and a good communicator. As well as giving talks on antiques, especially collectables, antiques of the 20th Century, collectables of the future, he can also present an antiques based interactive entertainment where the audience can bring along items and take part in an antiques quiz.
Lars Tharp
A notable expert in ceramics, Lars Tharp is nationally known to viewers of the BBC Antiques Roadshow as well as being a popular and highly entertaining speaker to societies and special gatherings. He appears on numerous Radio and TV programmes, most recently presenting Inside Antiques, his own 12-part series on BBC Four and is a Director of the Foundling Museum in London.
John Bly
The Antiques Roadshow expert John Bly is an antique dealer specialising in old furniture and Silver. He has written a number of books on both and presented his own series called Heirloom for ITV
Nina Sebastiane
Nina is an accomplished presenter who brings her business skills in travel, property and bargain-hunting to the TV screen.
Wendy Turner Webster
TV Presenter, event host and facilitator, author, writer and speaker Wendy is best known for fronting seven years of Channel 4s Pet Rescue. She is also an expert in Domestic Violence, Bullying Issues and coping positively with financial difficulties.
John Benjamin
John Benjamin is an independent jewellery historian, valuer and author specialising in giving lectures and conducting events on a wide range of jewellery topics. He is also a member of BBC Television’s ever-popular Antiques Roadshow team of experts.
Eric Knowles
Writer and presenter Eric Knowles is one of the nation’s best known antiques experts who has shared his expertise with the BBCs ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and radio programmes for over 20 years, and has the rare skill of being able to convey his expertise in a manner that is both entertaining and informative.
Henry Sandon
After a chance discovery of pottery in his garden, Henry became a self-confessed ‘potoholic’, a passion culminating in the enormously popular ‘Antiques Roadshow’ (BBC). Henry shares his expert antique knowledge with audiences nationwide and has published a humorous, intriguing autobiography ‘Living with the Past’.
Mark Hill
Co-Presenter of Cracking Antiques for BBC2 Mark is an antiques and collectables expert on the Antiques Roadshow and a passionate collector of 18th century etchings and 20th Century ceramics.
Alison Chapman
Antiques expert Alison Chapman is a regular dealer on David Dickinson’s Real Deal for ITV1 with years of experience in identifying and valuing antiquities.
Monty English
Art dealer and consultant, Monty English is best known for his quirky and eccentric manner on Dickensons Real Deal.
Tracy Martin
presenter and an expert in 20th century collectables and antiques, Tracy Martin appears regularly on both television and radio. She is also a published author, has written many magazine articles and regularly conducts lectures on her specialist subjects.
Kathryn Rayward
Co-Presenter of Cracking Antiques for BBC2, Kathryn is one of the most distinctive designers working on television today and runs a successful interior design company with offices in Brighton and the South of France.
Tessa Dunlop
An intelligent and lively host, Tess was the co- presenter and history expert on Discovery’s series Legend Detectives.
