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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）。阿力姆（吉米·米斯特雷 Jimi Mistry 饰）和吉尔斯（Kristen Holden-Reid 饰）是一对感情十分要好的同性恋人，两人相恋多年，在伦敦过着同居的生活。某一日，阿力姆远在家乡的母亲突然决定前往伦敦探望自己的儿子，这可急坏了阿力姆，因为对于阿力姆家信仰的宗教来说，同性恋可是十恶不赦的重大罪行。 对于阿力姆的焦急，吉尔斯并不是十分理解，他觉得只要两人真心相爱相互扶持，没有什么桎梏是打不破的。母亲来了，阿力姆觉得家里变成了炼狱。每日夹在母亲和吉尔斯之间，一边要小心隐藏一切可能暴露他秘密的线索，一边又要安抚恋人受伤的心。纸终究包不住火，当秘密被揭穿之时，阿力姆同时失去了爱情和亲情。。一架载有四名法国男子和700公斤可卡因的飞机被蓬塔卡纳警方突击搜查， 所有人都坚称自己无罪。那么，26箱毒品是如何登上飞机的？。
