BBC Antiques Roadshow stops show and says he 'refuses' to value item
A BBC Antiques Roadshow guest has REFUSED to value an item in a brutal blow for a guest on the programme. The BBC show, fronted by Fiona Bruce, returns tonight (September 29) with a repeat edition which had initially aired last year.
Antiques Roadshow star Marc Allum refused to put a price on the items after he noted the collection was about more than the financial value. Mr Allum met a group who created the Braffa charity concert for Live Aid.
One of the organisers, Leon, was on the show with some memorabilia from back in the eighties. "Yourself, obviously, being an instrumental an important kingpin on the whole of Braffa, but I can't help but mention the fact that everybody behind me here was also involved," Allum noted.
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"So let's go back in time and talk about why Braffa originated and we're talking about basically the famine in Ethiopia in 1984," he went on. "There was something missing from Live Aid, wasn't there?" The guest said: "Band Aid raised millions, and Bob Geldof had the contacts to these major artists, but at the time we had major artists in the charts like Trevor Walters and many others, and we weren't called upon.
"So we didn't object against what he was doing, but we wanted to be seen doing something as African descendants helping the people." He went on to recall that "about 200" people took part in recording the track.
Marc remarked: "So we've got a copy of Let's Make Africa Green Again here, we've got various bits and photographs and I can see there's a photograph behind you there with Princess Anne - and are you in that photograph, Leon?"
"Yes, that's myself there," Leon told him. Marc asked: "This is something that has been brought to life in a much bigger way now as well, hasn't it?" The guest said: "It was something extremely important to you and we talk about values and things on this show and you know, I can talk about the value of these items in front of us here and maybe there's a few hundred pounds worth but that's not what's important here, is it?
"It's about social history and it's about what you did out there, the money you raised and it's massively important to see that reinvented in a way that brings it back to people and younger generations too." Mr Allum added: "So I've got you all here - and there's absolutely no way I'm going to let you go without singing a reprise from Let's Make Africa Green Again, so please, take it away."