Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is a BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 television series devoted to pitting the knowledge and business acumen of well-known antiques experts against each other in a specific challenge. It has aired on BBC One since 10 March 2008. The series is made by independent production company Reef Television.

Format

The most common challenge is to buy for an agreed sum an antique

Antiques

An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age , beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features...

 at a car boot sale

Car boot sale

Car boot/trunk sales or boot/trunk fairs are a mainly British form of market in which private individuals come together to sell household and garden goods.The term refers to the selling of items from a car's boot or trunk...

 or antiques fair and with the aim to get as much profit as possible.

Antiques experts who have featured in the two series include: Tim Wonnacott

Tim Wonnacott

Tim Wonnacott is a Chartered Auctioneer, Chartered Surveyor English antiques expert, television presenter. He has been Director of one of the world's oldest auction houses, Sotheby's...

, David Harper, Mark Franks, and Paul Hayes, as well as TV presenters Kate Bliss

Kate Bliss

Kate Bliss is an antiques expert and television celebrity that has appeared on the BBC's Bargain Hunt and Flog It! and has also presented the BBC's programme Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is....

, Lucy Alexander

Lucy Alexander

Lucy Alexander is a British television presenter.Alexander graduated at the London Studio Centre in drama and dance. One of her friends there was actress Tamzin Outhwaite.-Presenting career:...

, Martin Roberts

Martin Roberts (presenter)

Martin Roberts is the current presenter of the BBC1 series, Homes Under the Hammer with co-presenter Lucy Alexander. Born in Warrington, Cheshire, Roberts has also presented several other programmes including Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and How to Survive the Property Crisis, both for the...

, Melissa Porter

Melissa Porter

Melissa Porter is an English television presenter, best known for her BBC programmes, To Buy or Not to Buy and Escape to the Country.-Early life:...

, and Kristian Digby

Kristian Digby

Kristian Digby was an English television presenter and director best known for presenting To Buy or Not to Buy on BBC One. On 1 March 2010 he was found dead in what police said were "unexplained circumstances"...

.

In Spring 2009 the series returned but instead of focusing on antiques dealers, chefs competed against each other in a different restaurant every day. They used their own money to buy ingredients for their starters, main courses and desserts. The chefs competing were Gino D'Acampo

Gino D'Acampo

Gennaro "Gino" D'Acampo is an Italian chef, television personality and winner of ITV's 2009 series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here. D'Acampo lives in the United Kingdom.-Early life:...

, James Tanner

James Tanner

James Tanner is a British chef and television personality. He currently appears on the BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook.-Early life:...

, Atul Kochhar

Atul Kochhar

Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born British chef. Born in Jamshedpur in northern India, Kochhar was trained and worked at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi.-Biography:In 1994, he was appointed head chef at the Tamarind restaurant, in Mayfair, London...

, John Burton Race

John Burton Race

John Burton Race is a British michelin starred chef, television personality and celebrity chef, made famous by the Channel 4 series French Leave and its sequel Return of the Chef and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.-Biography:John Burton Race, successful Michelin Star chef, television...

, Galton Blackiston

Galton Blackiston

Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, is Michelin starred and has 3 AA rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney...

, Ed Baines

Ed Baines

Edward "Ed" Baines is an English chef best known for being a judge on Britain's Best Dish and for being an alternate chef on Sunday Feast with Paul Merrett...

, Aldo Zilli

Aldo Zilli

Aldo Zilli is an Italian-born celebrity chef who specialises in Italian cuisine. One of nine children, he was born in the small seaside town of Alba Adriatica in the central Italian region of Abruzzo...

, Nick Nairn

Nick Nairn

Nick Nairn is a Scottish celebrity chef.- Work :Nick Nairn is a chef, food consultant, television personality and spokesperson on diet, healthy eating and Scottish produce. Nick started his working life in the Merchant Navy, and having tasted food from all corners of the world, returned home to...

, Paul Rankin

Paul Rankin

Paul Rankin is a Scottish born, Northern Irish celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. Born in Glasgow, Scotland his parents moved back to Ballywater, where he grew up. This was stated when he was the subject of an episode of a short programme named Proud Parents on Channel...

 and Richard Phillips.

Series 4 and 5 returned to the antiques experts format; these series, as well as repeats of the first two, were on BBC Two

BBC Two

BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

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Series One

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Series Two

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Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	10 March 2008	20 March 2008	9
2	6 October 2008	31 October 2008	20
Food	5 May 2009	5 June 2009	23
3	10 May 2010	18 June 2010	30