# Natasha Raskin Sharp
**Natasha Raskin Sharp** (born 1986) is a Scottish television presenter, auctioneer, and antiques and art expert, best known for presenting the BBC's *Bargain Hunt* and appearing on *Antiques Road Trip*, *Flog It!*, and *Celebrity Antiques Road Trip*[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/) • [2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/). Born in Glasgow, she trained as an auctioneer at the Glasgow auction house McTear's before moving into television, and she has also presented a weekly music program on BBC Radio Scotland[2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/) • [3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986, Glasgow, Scotland[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/) |
| Education | MA in History of Art, University of Glasgow, 2010; earlier began a law degree[2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/) • [3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf) |
| Auction career | McTear's, Glasgow: trainee valuer, then auctioneer and Head of Pictures; sold a Samuel J Peploe still life for £185,000, the house's most valuable sale[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/) • [2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/) |
| Television | *Bargain Hunt*, *Antiques Road Trip*, *Celebrity Antiques Road Trip*, *Flog It!*, *For What It's Worth*, *Baggage Battles*, reporter on *The One Show*[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/) |
| Business | Exhibit Auctions, an online-only auction platform selling works directly from artists' studios with 0% buyer's commission[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/) |
| Family | Married TV producer Joe Sharp; daughter Jean born 2024[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/) |
## Early life and education
Raskin Sharp was born in Glasgow in 1986, the middle of three children in a family of art lovers and collectors[3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf). Her father is the Scottish landscape painter [Philip Raskin](https://www.edgepedia.org/philip-raskin) (born 1947), and her grandfather was the former television magician Max Raskin[5](https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/64690/atg_2483.pdf) • [3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf).
She did not begin in the art trade. After leaving school she started a law degree, but decided the subject was not for her and left[3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf). Among the activities that followed were a placement at the Alice Temperley fashion house and work on [Barack Obama](https://www.edgepedia.org/barack-obama)'s 2008 [New Hampshire](https://www.edgepedia.org/new-hampshire) primary campaign[3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf). She returned to the [University of Glasgow](https://www.edgepedia.org/university-of-glasgow) and completed an MA in History of Art in 2010[2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/) • [6](https://webvhpool.gla.ac.uk/alumni/ouralumni/alumnispotlightseries/alumni-spotlight-arts-and-humanities/).
It was her father who directed her toward auctioneering, suggesting she introduce herself to McTear's, the Glasgow auction house[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). An internship in early 2011 became a full-time position as a trainee valuer, and she progressed to auctioneer and head of the pictures department[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). She has described her first day with the gavel as a failure that her mother filmed, and the moment years later when she valued a Samuel J Peploe still life found in a vendor's spare bedroom; it sold for £185,000, still the most valuable item McTear's has ever sold[2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/).
## Television career
Her route into television ran through the rostrum. A former *Bargain Hunt* series producer saw her conducting an auction in Glasgow, liked her style, and head-hunted her; her first appearance as an expert on the program came in 2013[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). Two years later she was offered the role of co-presenter, left the auction house, and concentrated on screen work[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). A later retrospective of former *Bargain Hunt* presenters places her time on the program as presenter and auctioneer between 2014 and 2024[7](https://streamdiag.com/tv-personalities/former-bargain-hunt-presenters-14481/).
Her credits since then span British and American formats: *Antiques Road Trip* and *Celebrity Antiques Road Trip*, *Flog It!*, a guest expert spot on *For What It's Worth with Fern Britton* in 2016, the American series *Baggage Battles*, and story segments for *The One Show* on [BBC One](https://www.edgepedia.org/bbc-one)[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). On *Antiques Road Trip*, two experts tour Britain in a classic car buying antiques to resell at auction for profit; she has filmed many series of it, including a four-leg run with fellow auctioneer Philip Serrell through the [Lake District](https://www.edgepedia.org/lake-district), Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a final auction in Wrexham[8](https://www.rmpbs.org/shows/antiques-road-trip/episodes/natasha-raskin-sharp-and-philip-serrell-day-4-n0ndx5). In a University of Glasgow interview she named Serrell, with whom she has made four *Antiques Road Trip* series and countless *Bargain Hunt* programs, as the colleague closest to her[9](https://webvhpool.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/).
She remains a current *Bargain Hunt* presenter: recent BBC One listings for series 75 credit her as presenter, in episodes that included a visit to [William Wilberforce](https://www.edgepedia.org/william-wilberforce)'s former home in Hull ahead of the sale of two of his letters[10](https://bbctodays.pages.dev/programmes/m0032wbc) • [11](https://bbc.com.im/programmes/m0032k97).
## Exhibit Auctions
During the pandemic lockdown Raskin Sharp launched her own venture, Exhibit Auctions, an online-only platform intended to change how art is bought and sold[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). Each sale offers works by a single artist, auctioned from the artist's own studio using a traveling rostrum and a gavel that was a gift from her father[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). She chose online-only because her filming schedule keeps her on the road, and set buyer's commission at 0%, so the bid price is the price paid, removing a charge she described as a common deterrent for newcomers to auction houses[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). The inaugural sale offered work by Philip Raskin, ten years after he first pressed her to apply for a job at an auction house[4](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/). The Antiques Trade Gazette reported the founding of the site and the launch sale of her father's paintings, offered on 17 March[5](https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/64690/atg_2483.pdf).
## Radio
From 2017 she presented a weekly late-night music program on BBC Radio Scotland, playing an eclectic mix described as ranging from country to jazz to new indie sounds, and from '70s soul to fuzzy garage rock[3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf) • [6](https://webvhpool.gla.ac.uk/alumni/ouralumni/alumnispotlightseries/alumni-spotlight-arts-and-humanities/) • [2](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/). She had also appeared on the station's *Janice Forsyth Show* and as a guest presenter of *The Music Match*[3](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf).
**The show's end.** In November 2025, BBC Radio Scotland announced that four long-running late-night music programs would be dropped by the end of the year and replaced with a new "easy listening" program intended to offer broader mainstream appeal; the axed shows were those of Iain Anderson, Roddy Hart, Billy Sloan, and Raskin Sharp[12](https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/bbc-radio-scotland-axes-four-longstanding-music-shows). The Musicians' Union raised concerns about the loss of a platform for Scottish artists, and the Scottish Music Industry Association published an open letter on behalf of its more than 6,000 members calling for a pause to the changes[12](https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/bbc-radio-scotland-axes-four-longstanding-music-shows) • [13](https://www.smia.org.uk/news/smia-open-letter-to-bbc-radio-scotland/). Her own website records the show as having run for nine years[14](https://natasharaskinsharp.co.uk/).
## Personal life
She met Joe Sharp, a television producer, in 2013 while working on BBC antiques productions, and married him in 2016[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/). One source gives the marriage year as 2023; the 2016 date appears in the more detailed accounts, and the discrepancy is unresolved between them[15](https://pressnative.org/tech/natasha-raskin-sharp-biography/). The couple live in Glasgow, in a late-Victorian tenement[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/) • [16](https://homesandinteriorsscotland.com/2025/03/in-the-frame-natasha-raskin-sharp-broadcaster-and-auctioneer/).
Their daughter Jean was born in 2024; Raskin Sharp announced the name on her radio show with a nod to [David Bowie](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-bowie)'s "The Jean Genie"[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/). No verified net-worth figure has been published for her; figures circulating on unofficial websites are speculative[1](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/).
## References
1. [Natasha Raskin Sharp – Age, Husband, Baby and Biography, Glasgowwire](https://glasgowwire.uk/local/natasha-raskin-sharp-age-husband-baby/)
2. [Me by Natasha Raskin Sharp, University of Glasgow Avenue interviews](https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/)
3. [A portrait of Natasha Raskin Sharp, Acorns parish magazine, Spring 2020](https://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk/Acorns%202020%20Spring.pdf)
4. [TV presenter sets out to change way art is bought and sold, Glasgow West End Today](https://www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/features/tv-presenter-sets-out-to-change-way-art-is-bought-and-sold-1133/)
5. [News Digest, Antiques Trade Gazette no. 2483](https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/64690/atg_2483.pdf)
6. [Alumni Spotlights: Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow](https://webvhpool.gla.ac.uk/alumni/ouralumni/alumnispotlightseries/alumni-spotlight-arts-and-humanities/)
7. [Former Bargain Hunt presenters and their current whereabouts, StreamDiag](https://streamdiag.com/tv-personalities/former-bargain-hunt-presenters-14481/)
8. [Antiques Road Trip: Natasha Raskin Sharp and Philip Serrell, Day 4, Rocky Mountain PBS](https://www.rmpbs.org/shows/antiques-road-trip/episodes/natasha-raskin-sharp-and-philip-serrell-day-4-n0ndx5)
9. [Me by Natasha Raskin Sharp, University of Glasgow Avenue (mirror)](https://webvhpool.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/me/mebynatasharaskinsharp/)
10. [Bargain Hunt, Series 75, Ardingly 16, BBC One programme page](https://bbctodays.pages.dev/programmes/m0032wbc)
11. [Bargain Hunt, Series 75, Bradford 29, BBC One programme page](https://bbc.com.im/programmes/m0032k97)
12. [BBC Radio Scotland Axes Four Longstanding Music Shows, Musicians' Union](https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/bbc-radio-scotland-axes-four-longstanding-music-shows)
13. [SMIA Open Letter to BBC Radio Scotland, Scottish Music Industry Association](https://www.smia.org.uk/news/smia-open-letter-to-bbc-radio-scotland/)
14. [Natasha Raskin Sharp, official website](https://natasharaskinsharp.co.uk/)
15. [Natasha Raskin Sharp: Age, Husband, Baby, Net Worth & BBC Career, PressNative](https://pressnative.org/tech/natasha-raskin-sharp-biography/)
16. [In the frame: Natasha Raskin Sharp, broadcaster and auctioneer, Homes & Interiors Scotland](https://homesandinteriorsscotland.com/2025/03/in-the-frame-natasha-raskin-sharp-broadcaster-and-auctioneer/)
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