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Coast and Country Auctions

History 2018

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Revealing the stories behind Britain's most exciting traditional markets, following auctioneers, buyers and sellers as the hammer falls.

History 2018

Starring Stephen Tompkinson

EPISODE 1

Brixham 1

A look at the world-famous Brixham fish auction, which has been going for over a hundred years, but is now experiencing the biggest boom in its history, turning over up to a million pounds a week. For sellers like trawler captain Alan Scales there's much at stake: he needs to get good prices for his fish or he can't pay his crew.
EPISODE 2

Builth Wells 1

The Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells, mid Wales, hosts a unique annual event: the Welsh Cob Autumn Sale. In front of crowds of up to 3,000 people, the three-day event sees more than 400 horses go under the hammer.
EPISODE 3

Exeter 1

South west England is Britain's farming capital, producing more food than the whole of Scotland and twice as much as Wales. At its heart is Exeter Livestock Market, the biggest agricultural auction in the region.
EPISODE 4

Spalding 1

Spalding Plant and Vegetable Auction in Lincolnshire is the oldest market of its kind in the UK, having started in 1948. There are three sales a week, selling as many as 1,000 bags and boxes of veg, and up to 16,000 plants, shrubs and trees in a day.
EPISODE 5

Bala 1

Bala in Snowdonia is home to one of the UK's most important sheepdog auctions, the Bala Autumn Sale. Nearly 80 dogs will be sold there, and good prices are expected: auctioneer Glyn Owens says that a really good trial dog can fetch up to £10,000.

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Coast and Country Auctions

HISTORY

Revealing the stories behind Britain's most exciting traditional markets, following auctioneers, buyers and sellers as the hammer falls.

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Studio: BBC One
Genre: History
Released: 2018