King's College was founded in 1441 by a nineteen-year-old King Henry VI, who promptly demolished a large chunk of medieval Cambridge, including shops, lanes and a church, to make room for it. For over four centuries, the college admitted only boys from Eton, who were permitted to graduate without sitting exams.

Today, it has the highest proportion of state school students of any Cambridge college and a reputation as decidedly left-wing. The alumni list is a case study in range: Alan Turing, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, and Salman Rushdie.

The Chapel is the centrepiece, its 23 surviving sixteenth-century stained glass windows having outlasted civil war and the Blitz. Cromwell quartered his troops inside during winter, which is probably why the windows survived: breaking them would have frozen his men.

VoiceMap's Cambridge tours trace King's founding story, the Eton connection and the remarkable survival of the chapel's windows across centuries of upheaval.