Episode 1

In the first of seven programmes Kirsty Wark recounts the turbulent history of the Scottish crown jewels, and asks whether the Queen should wear them at the opening of the new Scottish parliament. Nigel Havers returns for the first time in 30 years to Ickworth House, home of his boyhood friend the Marquess of Bristol, who died in January. Dan Cruickshank offers a potted history of the chimney stack.