Anthony Reeve of Lassco Three Pigeons and Edward Neish of Jardinique appeared in 'Put your money where your mouth is' and Colin Scull of Robert Mills appeared in 'Escape to the country'.
 
'Put your money where your mouth is' featured two competing professionals Jonty Hearnden, retired dealer from Dorchester on Thames, and James Lewis, auctioneer from Bamfords in Matlock, who both bought items at a Peterborough antiques fair with a £750 wad of cash. Jonty Hearnden bought an Edwardian wirework two-tier planter for £80 which he sold to Edward Neish at Jardinique for £150, and seven cast iron gravemarkers for £80 which he sold to Anthony Reeve at Lassco for £180. "I haven't seen any like this before," commented Anthony Reeve, "and the whole gravey thing can spook people."
 
The Victorian cast iron numbered grave markers by 'Maldon Iron Works Co Ltd' were required under the Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 clause 41 which states (and is still current UK law):
'Plan and book of reference to be kept, and be open to inspection. The company shall cause a plan of the cemetery to be made upon a scale sufficiently large to show the situation of every burial place in all the parts of the cemetery so set apart, and in which an exclusive right of burial has been granted; and all such burial places shall be numbered, and such numbers shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and such book shall contain the names and descriptions of the several persons to whom the exclusive right of burial in any such place of burial has been granted by the company; and no place of burial, with exclusive right of burial therein, shall be made in the cemetery without the same being marked out in such plan, and a corresponding entry made in the said book, and the said plan and book shall be kept by the clerk of the company.'
 
'Escape to the country' is a series shadowing city people who are looking to buy a house in rural parts of Britain, presented by Jules Hudson, an archaeologist. The series also produces compilations, and one entitled 'Chapel Conversions' featured Robert Mills Ltd where Colin Scull walked Jules Hudson through the showrooms of ecclesiastical architectural antiques and stained glass specialist Robert Mills of Bristol.
 
Jules Hudson started the ball rolling, "There is a debate that it is appropriate to take things out of churches."
 
Colin Scull replied, "Churches are now modernising to have a warmer multi-use feel so a lot of the larger Victorian pieces are being removed. These items should be saved, reused and moved on to another life."
 
Regarding a large 1920s chancel screen in the showroom Jules Hudson said, "The job of getting it out of a church and re-erecting it here, then taking it apart and sending it to a client - that's a major operation."
 
Explaining why a church would dispose of a splendid pulpit now in his showroom Colin Scull said, "The priest no longer wanted to be stood up there in a dramatic formal way giving fire and brimstone. He wanted to be low down amongst the congregation."
 
The tour with Jules Hudson created a six minute long section in the programme which included a look at stained glass restoration, the reuse of a confessional as an airing cupboard and a discussion on panelled rooms where Colin explained that far from being an inflexible insertion into a rigid room shape, a panelled room could be adapted to more or less any room, and he pointed out where Robert Mills biggest, most expensive and elaborate oak panelled room had already been adapted for reuse in a different room at least once before in its hundred year old life.
 
The episodes of 'Escape to the country' and 'Put your money where your mouth is' are currently available on BBC iPlayer.
 
Update: Robert Mills has since closed but Richard Ives who used to work with Colin has since started, Bristol Mills Antiques & Reclamation and continued their tradition of selling architectural antiques.