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Showbiz pals, poet Pam Ayres and actor Geoffrey Whitehead, team up with top antiquers James Braxton and Kate Bliss, as they shop their way around Hampshire and Berkshire. Along the way, Pam, who is ex-RAF, learns about the heroic exploits of the Glider Pilot Regiment. Geoffrey, meanwhile, stops for a game on the world’s oldest bowling green in Southampton.

Veteran broadcasters John Sergeant and Peter White tour the countryside south of the Thames. John gets up to speed on the river in a historic yacht while Peter, blind from birth, bats a good inning at one of the country’s oldest cricket clubs. Will John’s painting of sailing barges on the Norfolk Broads deliver a cargo of cash? And will a wooden windmill blow a profit in Peter’s direction?

Actresses Anna Chancellor and Holly Aird bring a touch of theatrical glamour to a Road Trip through the Home Counties. A supporting cast of experts steer our leading ladies through the twists and turns of this adventure, including the acquisition of an eclectic collection of props ranging from a military field flask to a pigeon clock.