Eric Knowles presents and is joined by experts Charles Hanson and Richard Madley. The teams are made up of workmates and a married couple. Eric takes time out to visit a beautiful medieval church, housing dramatic wall paintings which are over 900 years old.

Presenter Eric Knowles leads the fray in the grounds of Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, with experts Danny Sebastian and Jonathan Pratt. Two married couples take on each other to buy three items that they hope will make a profit at auction. Eric visits the small village of Eyam to discover how, 350 years ago, the villagers made a daring decision to quarantine themselves, and stop the spread of the plague.