Royal Holloway College has had 100 years of its students' living conditions exposed on the radio - thanks to the BBC.

The college at Egham which is part of the University of London has featured in a new series called Scenes from Student Life, which has been running every lunchtime over the last two weeks on Radio Four.

Presenter Ellie Cawthorne has trawled through 900 years of the 'student experience', including initiation rituals, political protests and 'town and gown' frictions.

On Monday at 1.45pm the programme will visit Royal Holloway for an edition entitled Stuffed Crocodiles and the Chrysler Building looking at student living quarters there in 1896 and 2016.

Ellie examined a set of 19th century photographs of student rooms with Royal Holloway archivist Annabel Valentine and visited students in the same rooms today.

Jane Hamlett, reader in modern British History at Royal Holloway, first identified and wrote about the student room photos for her thesis at the college in 2001 and has since written about their social significance.

The programme explored how fears of female education and emancipation affected the design of student living quarters and how students past and present transformed their private living quarters into public display spaces.

A certain Miss Owen displayed a crocodile skin - in a bid to differentiate herself from her fellow students at a time when women were still struggling for the right to an education.

Handmade lightshades, Japanese fans, taxidermy and generic posters of Pulp Fiction all featured in students' rooms across the years.

Royal Holloway was in good company. The programme also visited Trinity College, Cambridge and Oxford hearing from academics, alumni and current students.