Lights, Camera, Action for our senior valuer Richard Beale!
30th July 2019
Our senior valuer Richard Beale has appeared on prime time BBC1 consumer rights programme ‘Fake Britain’, episode 3.
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He enjoyed a day’s filming with the BBC film crew back in October at the ‘Advintageous’ fair in the Victorian Spa Centre, Scarborough.
After meeting the director and crew at the Grand Hotel and a working breakfast Richard arrived at a bright but bracing Spa Centre to meet presenter Michelle Ackerley.
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Richard discussed examples of fake coins, banknotes, stamps, die cast and model railway boxes, comparing fakes with genuine examples.
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Members of the public were invited to bring items to be valued and authenticated.
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The team then headed out into the fair to ask members of the public to determine which items were genuine and fake.
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Richard’s busy day filming finished around 4:30 pm.
To watch the broadcast episode in full please go to the BBC iPlayer via the link below,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006hlp/fake-britain-series-9-30minute-versions-episode-1
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