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Join the Antiques Road Show experts on three Fred Olsen cruises

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering three cruises in 2012 with antiques as the special topic and featuring celebrated experts from the BBC's Antiques Road Show.

On each cruise, through its acclaimed onboard enrichment programme, Vistas, the experts will be sharing their knowledge and passion with like-minded guests.

Lars Thrap is one of the longest serving experts on the Antiques Road Show

Antiques-collecting is one of the UK’s most popular pastimes; the popularity of antiques fairs and auctions continues unabated, with TV shows like Antiques Roadshow, Cash in the Attic and Flog It! going from strength to strength.

So, what better way to indulge an interest in antiques than taking a cruise to some of Europe’s most interesting cities, brimming with a wealth of art and antique collections, in the company of the most knowledgeable experts in the field?

The experts

Lars Tharp
The Danish-born historian, lecturer and broadcaster is one of the longest-standing experts on the Antiques Roadshow. Tharp originally trained as an archaeologist, and was a director of Sotheby’s, where he specialised in European ceramics, Chinese ceramics and Oriental works of art. In 2008, he was appointed the Director of the Foundling Museum in London, and Visiting Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Will Farmer
Farmer specialises in 20th Century decorative arts, covering ceramics, glass and furniture. He studied at the Birmingham School of Jewellery, undertaking a combined BA Honours degree in Silversmithing and Fine Art History. He has featured as an expert on the 20th Century Roadshow, and is now in his fourth season as an expert with the Antiques Roadshow.

Marc Allum
Allum has been a miscellaneous specialist on the Antiques Roadshow for 12 years. He started buying and collecting from an early age, later becoming an auctioneer and director of a London auction house, a career he pursued for 16 years. Allum has worked on many other television programmes, including 20th Century Roadshow, Going for a Song, Bargain Hunt, Cash in the Attic and Moving Day, in addition to appearing on Discovery Television, Channel Four News and various radio shows.

Clive Stewart-Lockhart
Stewart-Lockhart joined Sotheby’s after leaving Marlborough College in 1973. Although his career at Sotheby’s was interrupted by periods at Bluett & Sons and Bonhams, he worked in the auction house’s valuation department for five years. He then joined the auctioneers Dreweatt Neate in 1982, and now heads their Fine Art Department. His specialties are pictures, works of art, and Oriental ceramics. On the Antiques Roadshow, his areas of expertise are books, miscellaneous, pictures and paintings.

Paul Viney
Viney is chairman of Woolley & Wallis, the Salisbury-based fine art auctioneers. He began his career at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, then worked for the National Trust at Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, before joining Phillips Auctioneers, where he was vice president in New York for three years and European director from 1986 until 1992. He is well known to Radio 2 listeners for his annual Children in Need auctions with Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young, Ken Bruce and others. He has lectured extensively.

You can join these experts on the following Fred. Olsen cruises in 2012:

Black Watch, 13-night cruise to The Baltic with Norway
Departing from Dover on 24th June 2012, this cruise calls at Kiel (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), St. Petersburg (Russia), for an overnight stay; Helsinki (Finland), Turku (Finland), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Kristiansand (Norway), before returning to Dover.
From £1,699 per person, based on two adults sharing an inside, twin cabin’ Grade ‘E’.  The price includes all meals and entertainment on board, and port taxes. The Vistas theme on this cruise is hosted by Lars Tharp and Clive Stewart-Lockhart.

Boudicca, 12-night cruise to Stockholm & St. Petersburg
Departing from Newcastle (Port of Tyne) on 14th September 2012, this cruise calls first at Stockholm (Sweden), where the ship is at anchor, then Tallinn (Estonia), St. Petersburg (Russia) for an overnight stay; Rønne (Bornholm, Denmark), and Kalundborg (Denmark), before returning to Newcastle.
From £1,559 per person, based on two adults sharing an inside, twin cabin, Grade ‘E’. The antiques experts on this cruise are Marc Allum and Will Farmer.

Braemar, 14-night cruise to St. Petersburg, Helsinki & Stockholm
Departing from Dover on 22nd September 2012, this cruise calls at Warnemünde (Germany) for tours to Berlin; Stockholm (Sweden), where the ship us at anchor; Helsinki (Finland), St. Petersburg (Russia), for an overnight stay; Rǿnne (Bornholm, Denmark), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Oslo (Norway), and returns to Dover.
From £1,519 per person, based on two adults sharing an inside, twin cabin, Grade ‘I’.  Hosting the Vistas ‘Antiques’ theme on this cruise are Lars Tharp and Paul Viney.

All three cruises form part of the ‘Captains’ Collection’ programme of 73 specially-selected, ex-UK cruise deals. There are savings of up to £400 per cabin on cruises W1207 and D1221, and up to £500 per cabin on cruise M1223 (depending on cabin grade), if booked by February 29, 2012.

Fred. Olsen‘s ‘No Fuel Surcharge Guarantee’ also applies on all bookings made by January 31. for departures from January 1 onwards.