Paul Atterbury - Antiques Roadshow - 40 Years of Great Finds

Today, the Roadshow has around fifty-six experts in the team, but this number has never been consistent. In the days when more programmes were filmed for each series, the team reached over eighty to ensure that every discipline could be fully represented at each event. In the current team there is one expert, David Battie, who was present at that first Hereford programme, but many others joined soon after. Indeed, the Roadshow is remarkable for the longevity of its experts, with well over half the team having served twenty years or more. At the same time, new experts join each year, usually recruited either by the production team or by experts who sometimes act as informal talent scouts.

MOVING WITH THE TIMES

During its long life, the Roadshow has had three executive producers: Robin Drake; Christopher Lewis; and Simon Shaw. Longevity has also been a feature of the programme’s production team, with many working on the show for years. Making the Roadshow is an immensely complex process, and planning can take months or even years. Every show is dependent upon the great skills of the production, technical and support teams.

There have been changes during the last forty years, but these have generally been introduced in a gentle and unobtrusive way. Most obvious are the titles. Having been changed or developed every few years, these have now gone through several versions. For the first few years, the theme music was an electronic version of Bach’s Third Brandenberg Concerto, but this was replaced by the now globally familiar tune, a specially commissioned piece written by Paul Reade and Tim Gibson. The most important change has been a gradual shift in emphasis away from the antiques and their values towards the owners and their stories. This is partly reflective of significant changes in the world of antiques itself, as the interest in traditional antiques diminishes, replaced by new enthusiasms for more modern items. The Roadshow has now entertained more than two generations of viewers, and the tastes of the modern viewer are not the same as those who watched the programme in the late 1970s and 1980s. In its own leisurely way, the Antiques Roadshow has had to move with the times.

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