Article: Jim's live auction show's got the lot; Gareth Bicknell finds how you can take part in an auction without leaving your armchair.(Features)

MUM,Dad and the kids sit glued to the Antiques Roadshow, shouting their own expert valuations at the screen in a weekly ritual that has become a tea time tradition. But according to ``Super'' Jim Lloyd, Twrio's own antiques expert, theBBC show that has become a British institution has nothing on S4C's interactive auction.

``It's still the only programme anywhere that has a live auction that people can take part in at home,''he says.``As far as I'm concerned, the Antiques Roadshow doesn't even come close.

``It's the only programme with an auction that's live at the time of broadcast, where people can bid from their own homes. Also,I think it's very popular because it's ...

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