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Name: Paul Atterbury
Field:
Antiques Expert
Productions:
Hilary Kay and Paul Atterbury - Have You Had it Long, Madam? (Antiques)
After Dinner Speaker Biography: The only son of Rowley Atterbury and puppeteer Audrey Atterbury (née Holman), who worked on the 1950s children's Watch With Mother programme Andy Pandy for the BBC and who, it is claimed, based the character's appearance on that of her son, Paul Atterbury specialises in the art, architecture, design and decorative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally training as a graphic designer, he later studied art history at the University of East Anglia and went on to work for Sotheby Publications. He became an historical advisor for Royal Doulton and was the editor of Connoisseur magazine from 1980 to 1981.
Since 1981 Atterbury has been a freelance writer, lecturer, broadcaster and exhibition curator. He most frequently curates for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, his exhibitions there including "Pugin: a Gothic Passion" (1994) and "Inventing New Britain: the Victorian Vision" (2001).
Atterbury has written or edited over thirty books, mostly on ceramics. He is also known for his travel writing, and has also written books on railways and canals. He has published books of old postcards showing Eype and West Bay, two Dorset villages.
Until 2003 Atterbury was also chairman of the Little Angel Theatre puppet theatre in Islington, north London. He also tours the country with his stage show 'Have You Had it Long Madam?' with fellow Antiques Roadshow expert Hilary Kay.
In 2007 Atterbury appeared on Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In November 2009 he narrated BBC Four's documentary The Last Days of the Liners which examined how, in the years following World War II, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships on the great ocean routes.
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