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NEW SERIES OF PRIME TIME BARGAIN HUNT
STARTS WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER, 7.00 pm on BBC 1

Wednesday 13 October
The first programme of the new series comes from Newstead Abbey, once the home of Lord Byron. David Dickinson keeps score as two teams of cricketers step up to the crease, while cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew joins in the fun. Experts James Braxton and Nigel Smith guide the teams to buy bargains that will make a profit at auction.

Wednesday 20 October
It's full steam ahead as David and the team take a train to York with contestants that not only work on the railways but are also passionate enthusiasts. Keeping them on track are experts Philip Allwood and David Barby. The auction is at Knutsford in Cheshire where David Dickinson spots an old master in the auction room that turns out to be worth thousands.

Wednesday 27 October
David has a blooming marvellous time at an antiques fair in the grounds of Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. All the contestants are castle employees; the Red team comprises the head gardener and his wife, advised by expert Nick Sainty, while the Blue team are the curator and park ranger who are helped by Kevin Jackson. The auction takes place at Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers in Ely.

Wednesday 3 November
Caber tossing, tug-of-war and bargain hunting – it's all happening at the Inveraray Highland Games. In the Red team are two heavyweight Caber champions and in the Blue team a married couple who helped organize the Games. Will the teams make a profit when they sell their bargains at auction with the help of experts David Barby and Kate Alcock?

Wednesday 10 November
David is waylaid in Sherwood Forest by Robin Hood enthusiasts. The Red team are medieval sword fighters and the Blue team, producers of a Robin Hood website. Experts Adam Partridge and Philip Serrell help the teams shop in their quest for bargains at Newstead Abbey Antiques Fair. And the auction takes place at Marilyn Swain's in Grantham.

Wednesday 17 November
A show with a difference, as David Dickinson challenges the four most successful experts from the previous programmes in the series to find the best bargain at the Field Dog Antiques Fair at Grimsthorpe Castle. Michael Hogben, James Braxton, David Barby and Philip Serrell go head to head to become the ultimate Bargain Hunt champion. The stakes are high with professional reputations on the line and the experts will need to call on all their expertise and powers of persuasion.

(October 2004)

He's back! Bobby Dazzler, David The Duke Dickinson returns to BBC 1 in spring 2004 to present a new series of Bargain Hunt for ten weeks.

In the new series David Dickinson goes on a whistle stop tour of major cities in the UK to try and find the best bargains! Each team of two contestants is given £500 and an hour to shop for three items that will hopefully make them a profit when they're sold at auction. And if they make a profit they get to keep it. All your favourite experts are back to help the teams.

And viewers can join in the fun because once again each show features a competition with some fabulous prizes to be won. Viewers decide which items bought they believe will make the biggest profit and which the biggest loss and enter the competition by phone on 09011 110 800 or visit the BBC Bargain Hunt website at www.bbc.co.uk/antiques .

The first show kicks off in Liverpool and the famous cavern club where David meets the Mersey Beatles - four local lads who model themselves on the Fab Four. It's then on to Manchester and the local tea dance to meet former members of the Home Guard and the Land Army. London finds David not at Sun Hill but Snow Hill Police Station where he's met by four police officers from the city of London Police and then it's on to Oxford where students put David Dickinson through his paces rowing for the Blues. David samples some good food in Newcastle where his contestants - all chefs - try to teach him how to cook! And in Glasgow Art students from the Rennie Mackintosh School of Art wow David with their sense of style. In Belfast David is winched down by an RAF helicopter to meet his teams who are all volunteers in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and he drops in for a game of golf in Dublin with the ladies (will he call them girls!) from the local golf club. It's all a bit of a drama in Cardiff with members of an amateur dramatic company and there's a lot of hot air in Exeter when David takes off in a hot air balloon accompanied by farmer's wives to scour the county for antiques and view the fabulous Devon countryside!

(May 2004)

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