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Series 47: 9. Beaumaris Castle 1

The roadshow travels to the ruined Beaumaris Castle on the island of Anglesey, north Wales, where a rare ballerina brooch captures the imagination of jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy, while books expert Clive Farahar examines a much-loved copy of Winnie the Pooh that could be a first edition.\n\nElaine Binning finds a wooden chair featuring iconic mouse carvings by Yorkshire craftsman Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson, while Will Farmer is shaken and stirred by a set of Lalique drinking glasses our guest believes were used on the set of a James Bond film.\n\nGeoffrey Munn is dazzled by an opal ring, while Rupert Maas hears the story of a retired street-lighting engineer who invested in a drawing of a lamppost by L S Lowry on the back of a book cover.\n\nA collection of 19th-century Welsh costumes catches Hilary Kay’s eye, including a cockle hat, shawls and traditional silk top hats, while Duncan Campbell inspects a silver model of a Welsh dragon.\n\nPaul Atterbury hears the incredible story of a group of keen climbers who formed the Welsh Himalayan expedition to climb Mount Everest in the 1950s and became embroiled in an international spy ring. John Foster reveals that an abstract stone object found at a car boot sale is an artwork by one of Nigeria’s most sought-after sculptors, Ben Enwonwu.\n\nFiona Bruce discovers the history of Beaumaris Castle, and why it was never completed by King Edward I. She is also challenged to a game of ‘Basic, Better, Best’ by Lisa Lloyd, with a collection of unusual toys.

Source: BBC 2