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One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’. Logue wasn’t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman – he was a commoner and an Australian to boot.

"Was für ein Spiel, gegen die Jungs der SG Witten haben wir das Ding gerade noch umgebogen, zu Hause war es allerdings nicht so toll, Vater ist arbeitslos geworden, aber wir Bessauers sind ein Team und halten zusammen, dann kam es zum Spiel des Ersten gegen den Zweiten, 2000 Leute haben zugeschaut und zur Halbzeit haben wir haushoch geführt."

"Hanne, mein bester Freund, hat sich dazu entschlossen wegzuziehen. Das Team von Trainer Horst Fritsche bricht nach dieser Saison also auseinander. Im Kampf um die Nordrhein-Westfälische Meisterschaft haben wir zuerst die Bochumer ganz schön alt aussehen lassen. Gegen Schalke ging es dann um den Titel..."

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side. The King's War follows this relationship through the dark days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-day to eventual victory in 1945 - and beyond. 

By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction.