An Evening with Will Farmer from BBC Antiques Roadshow 29th May 2024

This fund-raising event features an entertaining talk by Will Farmer a senior presenter on the BBC Antiques Roadshow entitled- ‘From Rostrum to Roadshow’.

This talk covers Will's life on the Antiques Roadshow with a behind the scenes look at how the programme is made followed by a look at some of the favourite finds over the last 46 years!
Will is a great presenter and we are promised a very entertaining evening.

There will also be a 'one pot supper' provided (with vegetarian option) along with a raffle and hopefully there will be time for Will to auction a few items to raise more funds.
There may also be time for Will to provide appraisals of items for which there will be an additional charge.

The evening begins at 7:00 pm at Toft Cricket Club on 29th May and tickets are £30 each.
Please come along and invite your family and friends!

For more information or to order tickets call Andrew Lloyd-Green on 07713 038340

Will Farmer Biography

Will’s love of antiques can be traced back to the tender age of just six months when he was taken to his first auction by his mum. Parked underneath the auctioneer’s rostrum in his Silver Cross pram he slept soundly and only cried on leaving the saleroom, a clear indication of a future career! His childhood was spent scouring auctions and antiques shops around Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire with his mum and gran with the weekend of hunting rounded off by settling down to watch the Antiques Roadshow before school the next day. Back then Will's dream was to one day appear on the show, with something from his own collection...

Fast forward forty (or so) years and you’ll find a career auctioneer whose passion for ceramics, glass and 20th Century design goes well beyond the working day. A keen collector himself, Will’s idea of time off is, well... more of the same! Will is never happier than when searching out the things he loves, from Deco to Danish or Mid-Century to Modern! And the Roadshow dream... that came true back in 2004 when a chain of events led Will to be invited to join the Antiques Roadshow team as a specialist in ceramics, glass and 20th Century design.

What started out as a childhood interest has become a life’s passion and as Will always says, his job is his hobby and his hobby is his job! Even to the point that when he is being lowered into the ground, he would like the priest to say ‘going, going, gone’!