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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。《水兵俱乐部》，一个现代化的海军某军港，一个热腾腾的水兵码头俱乐部，一个心肠热、烦恼多的俱乐部主任，一群各怀绝技、朝气蓬勃的俱乐部年轻人……《水兵俱乐部》就这样鸣锣开张，讲述了一个个发生在俱乐部和舰艇上、哨所里的小插曲。其间欢声笑语不断，尴尬与苦恼并存，托出一个可亲、可爱的俱乐部主任罗运来的形象。。《给点阳光就灿烂》：陈欣是个有点儿大大咧咧的姑娘，一个男友、两三个不错的朋友，生活过得不好不坏，平平淡淡地到了三十岁生日，与男友商定了终身大事，佳期就订在老妈妈六十大寿那天，一切准备就绪。但就在即将进入婚姻殿堂的关键时刻，却突有变故，一段姻缘被迫终止，陈欣同时失去了爱情、尊严和工作。陈欣本欲将实情告诉远在南方的老母亲，但适逢母亲心脏病发，病床上仍念念不忘女儿的婚事，无奈中陈欣只得求助媒体和朋友们征婚……。
