Antiques Roadshow films at Kenilworth Castle

Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team have been filming at Kenilworth Castle valuing family heirlooms and missing masterpieces.
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team have been filming at Kenilworth Castle valuing family heirlooms and missing masterpieces.Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team have been filming at Kenilworth Castle valuing family heirlooms and missing masterpieces.
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team have been filming at Kenilworth Castle valuing family heirlooms and missing masterpieces.

The show, which has been running for more than four decades, was filmed on Wednesday and Thursday, on a closed set with a small invited audience only, to ensure the safety of guests, production and the wider public.

Two programmes have been filmed at the castle, which will be broadcast early next year.

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Presenter Fiona Bruce, who is filming her 13thseries of Antiques Roadshow, said she was delighted to be in Warwickshire.

"Normally we welcome around 5,000 people to each Antiques Roadshow, but of course in these extraordinary times we will have to do things very differently.

"We've come up with a new way to safely film the show yet still bring you amazing items and stories .

"We’ve had a wonderful time at Kenilworth Castle and our experts have seen some really intriguing and valuable objects - I can’t wait to see the finished programmes.”

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Matt Bulford, at English Heritage said: “We are pleased to be able to showcase our beautiful castle and to tell it’s fascinating story.“

First broadcast in 1979 the Roadshow remains one of the most popular factual programmes on BBC One with some six million people regularly watching on Sunday evenings.

Some of the Roadshow's most fascinating finds include a Faberge flower ornament worth £1million, a handwritten document signed by Elizabeth I, a ring containing a lock of author Charlotte Bronte's hair, a wristwatch owned by Lawrence of Arabia, a 17th Century miniature book reviewing Shakespeare's plays and a leather jacket worn by John F Kennedy.

Many objects featured on the Roadshow are found in some extraordinary places.

Winston Churchill's hat and letters were discovered in a dump near London, diamond jewellery sewn into a sofa and a vanity set from Donald Trump’s yacht was found in a charity shop.