Radio Times: Review by:; Alison Graham

Get out your tennis whites because the Roadshow pitches its tents at Wimbledon’s All England Lawn Tennis Club. You’ll need an umbrella, though, because it’s pouring down. There’s a nice piece of tennis memorabilia, too: a racket smashed by John McEnroe. You cannot be serious!

Elsewhere, an absolutely lovely diamond brooch made in around 1900 is given a whopping valuation, and there’s a moving handwritten memorandum by William Westemburg, assistant surgeon on Lord Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. Feel the shivers as you read the words: “Lord Nelson… was wounded in the left shoulder by a musket ball”.

About this programme

22/28. Fiona Bruce and the team head to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, where items of interest include a valuable diamond brooch, a racquet John McEnroe smashed during one of his early matches, and a handwritten account of the events surrounding the Battle of Trafalgar from a surgeon on board the HMS Victory.