Treasure hunter in chief Fiona Bruce. From the ‘Tesco plate’ worth £1.

K to the £7. 00. K plant pot.. Antiques Roadshow has been sifting for treasure amid the tat for 4. Here, Event gets access all areas with presenter Fiona Bruce – and finds out why she’s always got her eye on a bargain'I’m tempted to slip this in my pocket,’ says Fiona Bruce, gazing at an emerald ring on her finger. She’s in the middle of a challenge for Antiques Roadshow, having to guess which item of jewellery has gained the most value in the 4. There’s a ring with a diamond and another with a ruby, but the sparkly green jewel she’s wearing has got her full attention.

I love this one.’Antique Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce one of the BBC’s biggest- earning stars with a salary has just been revealed as between £3. Bruce presides over the show as experts find treasures among the thousands of objects people bring in, but is she ever tempted to take things home on the sly? Oh God, absolutely! How could you not think, “Ooh, I’d like to have that.”’She’s one of the BBC’s biggest- earning stars – whose salary has just been revealed as between £3. Bruce just afford to buy whatever she likes from the Roadshow visitors?

It’s strictly forbidden, for obvious reasons.’Dealers are not allowed to bid for what they find, and neither is she. Someone had a beautiful vintage Balenciaga coat, and I tried it on just for the hell of it. Watch Black Bread Online Fandango. The lady said, “I’m going to sell it on e. Bay. Do you want it?” I said, “Well, I do want it – but I can’t buy it from you.” We’re valuing things. There can be no grey area.’Bruce is not doing the valuations herself though, is she?

No but these experts are my friends. You can’t go, “Look, tell them it’s worth 6. Absolutely not. So I never saw the coat again.’Welcome to the world of Antiques Roadshow, one of the best- loved programmes on television. As it celebrates four decades, Event goes behind the scenes with Bruce and co. We’ll roam among the tables at Nymans, a country house in Sussex where hundreds are queuing to be seen – and discover the unique set of rules and codes that govern the show.

An amateur treasure hunter who uncovered one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain - worth £1million - almost missed the dig because he.

We’ll reveal the artist whose work they never want to see again and why you should jump for joy if you overhear a producer saying you’ve got ‘three zeds’, and the show’s elegant host will talk about her rebellious younger days as a singer in a band and the time she shouted at the Prime Minister – as well as revealing the secret tears she sheds at some of the reports she sees while reading the news. But first we have to talk money. The Government has forced the BBC to reveal the salaries of its top stars, but how does she feel about the rest of us knowing what she earns?

Well, I’m paid by the licence- fee payer. So I don’t have a problem with it. Transparency is usually a good idea.’Bruce is paid nowhere near Huw Edwards, the other main presenter on News At Ten, who earns between £5. She doesn’t want to attack her colleague personally but does feel strongly that it’s time for men and women at the Beeb to be paid equally.

She says so in a letter to the director- general, Tony Hall, along with about 4. Gabby Logan and Clare Balding. Bruce was signed up a decade ago when it had already been going 3. The basic format has not changed much since May 1. Welcome to the world of Antiques Roadshow, one of the best- loved programmes on television. Forty years on, the people and the stories have become at least as important as the treasures themselves‘We all want to go on the record to call upon you to act now.’Hall can’t afford to lose Bruce, who is not only the face of the BBC on its main news bulletin but must also take huge credit for turning Antiques Roadshow into one of its flagship programmes.

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She was signed up a decade ago when it had already been going 3. The basic format has not changed much since May 1. Bruce Parker was the presenter then, and he will return as a guest for a birthday edition later this month. Angela Rippon and Arthur Negus were also hosts before Hugh Scully took over for nearly 2.

Michael Aspel was next, but the show was tired and there was a major revamp when Bruce started presenting in 2. At Nymans the overflow car park is full and it’s not even 1. Over 4,0. 00 people are coming to the recording. Security is tight – there’s an expert in militaria addressing the crowd: ‘If you have any guns, knives or general ordnance with you, please see me!’You have to queue to get in, queue to register your items and queue to be seen by one of the experts working at wooden tables under large umbrellas.

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Bruce shivers in her white linen trousers and a light silk bomber jacket. She likes to get there early and wander around.‘I love to chat to people, hear what they’ve got, see if there’s a story. That’s a huge part of the attraction for me. I’ll go looking down the queues, thinking, “Hmm, what’s that? Is it something I could film?”’Sometimes she comes across little moments of heartbreak.‘At one of my first Roadshows I was just outside the entrance and a woman was sitting there with her painting. It had a hole in it.

I said, “Oh dear, what happened there?” She said, “I just put my foot through it when I was waiting to show it to somebody.”’Some finds are amazing, of course. How does someone end up with a Picasso sketch hanging around their home? How wonderful is that?’That happened in Harrogate earlier this year, when a couple brought along a box of papers bought in a French house clearance sale for 5. Among them was a forgotten drawing by the master, worth up to £8.

We love it when someone comes along and they’ve got something worth a serious amount of money. Particularly if they had no idea at all.’Often, people will insist their newly discovered treasure is not for sale. But not always. ‘My favourite was a woman who brought along a tiny little pill box. Will Farmer, a ceramics specialist who’s one of my best mates on the programme, said: “You bought it for a quid… it’s worth over £1,0. And she was hilarious.

She went, “Oh, of course I’ll never sell it.. Bruce imitates the woman slapping her thigh and giving a big wink to the camera. Yes I will!” She was roaring with laughter, as were we all. It was just brilliant.’She clearly loves meeting people, but there’s a tougher side to Bruce that I saw for myself when we met, briefly, before – as fellow reporters at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Bruce arrived to find an American sitting in the pew she thought was for her – and told him so, in no uncertain terms.‘Was I snotty?

Oh my God, I hope not! Grand is certainly one thing I’m not. But what an occasion.

How thin she was. At the rehearsal the day before, Kate had a little bit of material pinned to the back of her dress to imitate a train. The police officer turned around to me and said, “She’s so thin!” I said, “Yes. She is.”’ But God, what a stressful event. Crikey. I think that would put you off your porridge in the morning.”Even the Prime Minister has seen how formidable Bruce can be. I was supposed to interview Theresa May just after the fire at Grenfell Tower. We got word that she wanted to do an interview.

So we raced over to see her, but as we got there she changed her mind. I thought, “Bloody hell!” So I said, “Right, we should go and doorstep her, come on!” So we went to the church where she was going to be. I shouted out: “Are you scared, Prime Minister?” The press officer bore down on me in a fury.’ It worked, though.

Amateur treasure hunter finds hoard of Anglo Saxon coins in Buckinghamshire. Discovery: Paul Coleman, 5. Anglo Saxon coins worth £1million during the dig. An amateur treasure hunter who uncovered one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain - worth £1million - almost missed the dig because he couldn't afford the petrol. Paul Coleman, 5. 9, persuaded his son and a friend to join him on the excavation on farmland in Lenborough, Buckinghamshire just before Christmas so he could split the £4. But the unemployed father- of- two hit the jackpot when he dug up the pristine collection of more than 5,0.

Ethelred the Unready (9. Cnut (1. 01. 6- 1. It is thought that the find could be connected to a mint established by Ethelred at nearby Buckingham and which remained active during the time of Cnut. The 5,2. 51 - and a half - coins were in a lead- lined container buried two feet under ground.

Only some have been properly cleaned but all have proved to be in excellent condition. The expedition – in Lenborough, Buckinghamshire – was an annual end- of- year Christmas rally for members of the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club.

Mr Coleman said: 'We weren’t going to go on the dig – it’s a special event held for Christmas and it’s usually a lot closer to home, so we were going to leave it, with our budgets being tight.‘But once our friend decided to go we clubbed together and went. I had decided to take a coin with me in the hope I could sell it to one of the professionals that would be there and ended up forgetting it.‘When we got in the field we weren’t having much luck and it was just as we were about to leave and go to another field that my metal detector starting getting a signal.‘I began digging and for about 2. I hadn’t found anything. Then my hand hit something hard and I found some lead – I thought “this has been a waste of time”.‘But the next mound of soil I moved I saw a shiny disc and I knew instantly it was a coin. I bent down to pick it up and I could see lots of discs - one I identified as a Saxon coin. I couldn’t believe it.' The grandfather- of- four said he will share some of his fortune with his metal detector friends  - a customary tradition with a big find - and has pledged to buy a new house for his wife Christine, 5. Mr Coleman, who owns a Southampton- based wedding cars business, has been metal detecting for four decades and will also split the proceeds with the landowner. Mr Coleman with his wife Christine.

He has promised he will use the money to buy them both a new house. Hoard: One of the largest hauls of Anglo Saxon silver coins in British history has been found by an amateur treasure hunter in a field. The volunteers put the silver in sandwich pouches inside a Sainsbury's carrier bag. Special: The diggers knew they had stumbled across something remarkable when they picked up a signal the size of a manhole cover. Watch All The Days Before Tomorrow Online All The Days Before Tomorrow Full Movie Online.

The coins were hidden inside a lead bucket with the top folded in, they said. He added: 'I normally uncover lots of rubbish, busket balls, buckles, a few coins, nothing really terribly exciting.'They are historical but nothing like this. It is impossible to comprehend. They do have quite a significant value, its very nice but that's not really why you do the hobby.'Half a million I think the vast majority of people would agree does make a big difference.'Bills easier to pay, living standards obviously rise, holidays get better, cars get better.' Ros Tyrrell, who is based at the county museum in nearby Aylesbury, was there to record the finds. She said: ‘The coins were wrapped in lead sheeting and were covered in clay and silt which had seeped through where the lead had started to deteriorate but they were otherwise pristine.‘Those that we cleaned dated from the time of Ethelred the Unready and Cnut. There was a mint in Buckingham during their time so the find is possibly connected to that, or indeed the Saxon burgh – a defended encampment – also in the area.‘We cleaned mud away from only a handful of the coins so it’s possible there could have been older or newer coins in there too. Pete Welch, the club's leader for 2.

It looks like only two people have handled these coins, the person who made them and the person who buried them. This would have been a huge amount of money'Origin: The coins could have come from King Canute's Buckingham mint 1. Treasure: The man who found the coins, named only as Paul, could be in line for a six- figure payout. Commomn: The early pennies were made of silver by workmen who could stamp more than 2,0. Miss Tyrrell said the find, which has been sent to experts at the British Museum for analysis, could be worth around £1million. Simon Keynes, professor of Anglo Saxon at Cambridge University, said the collection ‘straddled an extraordinary period of history’ during which the Vikings took control of England.

He added: ‘The question is, how do we account for the composition of this hoard? Is it a hoard of a Viking – his accumulated wealth – or is it something else? Only half of the coins have been cleaned so far – the eventual date range could prove to be much more expansive.‘Until then, the hoard could be difficult to explain, but it is certainly an extraordinary find.’Mr Coleman's son Liam, who helped his father excavate the coins with Miss Tyrrell, said he had been delighted. Liam, a 2. 9- year- old sign fitter and metal detector enthusiast, added: ‘People consider finding just one of those coins a once in a lifetime event, let alone a stash of thousands. Just being able to hold one was an honour.’Peter Welch, 5.

December 2. 1, said the coins were like mirrors and had not been scratched. WHO WAS ON THE THRONE AT THE TIME THE MONEY WAS IN USE? King Canute (pictured) was King of Denmark, England, Scotland and Norway at the same time. Ethelred became King of England at the age of seven following the murder of his half- brother Edward II in 9. Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters.  Given the nickname 'Un- raed' or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects after the church transformed his brother into a 'royal martyr'. In 1. Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery. Unable to soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 9. Normandy in 9. 91.

In 1. 01. 3, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1.

Meanwhile, King Canute, pictured right, also known as Canute the Great, lived between 9. Although Danish he was King of Denmark, England, Scotland and Norway at the same time. Canute's claim to the throne of England was initially rejected by this country's noblemen so he returned home.

There he raised an army of more than 1. Thames. According to legend he believed himself to be so powerful his command could hold back the tide. He tested this theory by having his throne placed on the shore where he vainly tried to command the tides back until he nearly drowned. However, some historians argue the demonstration was proof of his wisdom in showing courtiers he was not taken in by their flattery. After his death Canute was buried in the Old Minster at Winchester. During the English Civil War, his coffin was among those smashed by parliamentarian soldiers and his bones scattered. His bones remain at Winchester Cathedral but are intermingled with those of other deceased English kings. Dig: More than 1.