She may be a self-proclaimed feminist, but Fiona Bruce, the presenter of the Antiques Road Show, can still enjoy a bit of self-parody.

She can be seen in this Sunday’s show on BBC 1 confined in a “coffin” – specially designed by Victorians to quell nagging wifes.

Miss Bruce allowed herself to be plonked inside the “wife tamer”, the only one of its kind in the country, for a bit of fun.

She will be seen being gently rocked in the wooden box made by the now long-defunct Hen-Pecked Club of Keighley.

The 46-year-old mother-of-two will tell viewers: “Even though it goes against every principle in my body, I can’t resist getting in and having a go.”

The box, one of six, was made by Keighley publican Harry Tap in 1862 for his Hen Pecked Club, an organisation for men with nagging wives.

It came into the collection at Cliffe Castle Museum in the town – where it is one of the most popular exhibits – in 1937.

Cliffe Castle’s Dale Keaton, who took the box to the show, which was filmed in April in Saltaire, when asked by the BBC to bring something funny to the show.

She said: “It’s an amazing piece and unique – there’s nothing like it elsewhere in the country.”