Safm’s popular radio series The Inner Ear presents What Price the Crown of England? for broadcast on October 4 at 20h00 to be repeated at 09h30 on October 8. John Simpson is the researcher and presenter of the programme which includes interview with knowledgeable historian Michael Spencer and author and historian Ian Sharman, former senior lecturer in history at the University of Natal. The latter will feature on a landline talk to England when he will highlight some incredible revelations about how some men became kings of England.

From the archives of the BBC there will be an historic recording made at Windsor Castle in 1936. This promises to be a history lesson with a difference.