{"id":166,"date":"2008-06-30T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-06-30T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:11:36","slug":"whats-it-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/whats-it-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT&#8217;S IT WORTH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">During a brief stop in Oxford this weekend I went along to the filming of <a title=\"The Antiques Roadshow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2007\/06_june\/22\/bruce.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Antiques Roadshow<\/a> at the\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">University&#8217;s <a title=\"Hertford College\" href=\"www.hertford.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Hertford College<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0AR, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s affectionately known to its legions of fans, is one of the most popular factual programmes on British television, with an average audience of just under six million. It broadcasts 26 episodes a year coming from locations all over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_0181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163\" title=\"img_0181\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_0181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_0181.jpg 425w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_0181-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">There was a large queue of people hoping to gleen some facts about their family heirlooms and, lets be honest, a valuation,\u00c2\u00a0from the resident AR experts. Punters included Lawson, from Oxford, with his print of Constable&#8217;s <a title=\"Constable's Flatford Mill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/servlet\/ViewWork?workid=2591\">Flatford Mill<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0John, from Abingdon, with a <a title=\"LS Lowry\" href=\"www.thelowry.com\/lslowry\/lslowryslife.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lowry<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_02331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-165\" title=\"img_02331\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_02331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_02331.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_02331-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">One member of the public, seen above, received slightly better news than Lawson and John. Here AR expert Philip Mould inspects an original sketch by the Russian artist<a title=\"Ilya Repin\" href=\"http:\/\/ilyarepin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ilya Repin<\/a> (dated 1917) which he valued at \u00c2\u00a3200,000, making it one of the most important finds in the programme&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0thirty year history!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a brief stop in Oxford this weekend I went along to the filming of The Antiques Roadshow at the\u00c2\u00a0University&#8217;s Hertford College.\u00c2\u00a0AR, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s affectionately known to its legions of fans, is one of the most popular factual programmes on British television, with an average audience of just under six million. It broadcasts 26 episodes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}