ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: World War I Special

The UK version of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW returns as presenter Fiona Bruce and the team are back on the trail of the nation’s hidden treasures, visiting more of Britain’s most sumptuous and unusual locations.

Season 36 also introduces a new play-along feature – The Rogues Gallery, where viewers get the chance to see whether they can spot a fake among real treasures.

This episode is the first of two specials marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

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Bill Harriman listens to the moving story of Joel Halliwell and his VC.

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Graham Lay (right) talks to the grandson of the chaplain who was involved with ceremony of the Unknown Warrior.

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The owner brings along paintings of cavalry horses done by her grandfather who was a doctor on the front.

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Hilary Kay hears about a woman doctor’s experience of war.

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Bill Harriman examines a collection of death plaques.

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A banjo signed by all the members of a Canadian battery group is seen by Paul Atterbury (right).

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Two bronze sculptures by Alexander Carrick “come home” and are seen by Paul Atterbury (left).

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Fiona Bruce hears the moving story of a German airman.

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Fiona Bruce listens to the war memories of Gladys who is 101 years old.

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Fiona Bruce travels with a small group of experts and visitors to the poignant Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme to hear family stories linked to the conflict.

Among the accounts and objects featured are pictures of horses sent to war painted by a doctor serving on the frontline; bronze sculptures of troops modeled from trench clay; a trunk of poignant fragments representing the life and death of a German soldier; and objects from one of the first women to treat wounded soldiers evacuated from battle.

Fiona Bruce also meets a 101-year-old lady who recalls hiding under school desks as a child during one of the first bombing raids on Britain.

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CREDITS:

A BBC production. Producer: Michele Burgess. Series Editor: Simon Shaw (PRICELESS ANTIQUES ROADSHOW). Presenter: Fiona Bruce (THE QUEEN’S PALACES)