The popular BBC One antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Wiltshire on Thursday 18th July. Flog It! 2012 publicity – Paul Martin records a piece to camera at a Flog It! valuation day event. Flog It! – the major BBC antiques show is now on its twelfth series and regularly achieves an audience of over two million viewers in its weekday afternoon slot. Longleat House and gardens will be hosting the Flog It! valuation day. Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public are invited to bring along up to three antiques and collectables they might be interested in selling. Full Story: Read More
BBC WORLDWIDE AND LONGLEAT JOIN FORCES FOR A REAL-LIFE DEADLY ADVENTURE
BBC Worldwide and Longleat Safari & Adventure Park are joining forces to create a spectacular new series of Deadly-themed features at the world famous Wiltshire attraction. The four year plan will see areas of the park transformed in the style of the BBC’s wildly successful Deadly branded programmes which include Deadly 60; Deadly Top 10s; Deadly 360; Deadly Art and most recently Deadly Mission Madagascar as seen on CBBC. Full Story: Read More
Lost BBC Radio & Television Programmes
Over the past decade or so, the BBC has made numerous appeals for television programmes that have been ‘lost’. Much of the missing material was ‘junked’ by the BBC in the Seventies. Although this now seems an insane destruction of part of the country’s cultural history, it needs to be put in context for the time. In the Sixties and Seventies, the tape programmes were recorded onto were incredibly expensive as well as bulky to store. Full Story: Read More