David Harper

Who is David Harper?

David Kingsley Harper is a British TV antiques expert and published writer

He appears on Bargain Hunt, Put your Money where Your Mouth Is, Cash In The Attic and The Antiques Road Trip. He has been featured on Through The Keyhole, Ready Steady Cook and presented pieces for The Heaven & Earth Show, The One Show, Inside Out and Countryfile Summer Diaries. His first TV role was in 2005 as presenter of Channel 4's Natural Born Dealers.

In April 2010 he won the first series of BBC 2's The Antiques Road Trip, raising £2488 for Children in Need from a starting budget of £200. His business David Harper Antiques at 24 The Bank, Barnard Castle, Co Durham are antiques and art brokers, valuers and auctioneers

He lives in Barnard Castle, in Teesdale, County Durham. He has lived and went to school in Zimbabwe, run an antique business in the USA, shipped antiques to and from the States and at the age of 25 was one of the youngest directors of a PLC company in Britain, importing antique style rubberwood furniture from the Far East