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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）。在学校里，凯瑟琳（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）是一位受人尊敬的历史老师，在家中，她又摇身一变成为了支撑家庭的顶梁柱，波澜不惊的生活逐渐成为了压在凯瑟琳心中的一份负担，但她如此迫切的想要改变生活的原因还并不在于此，而在于她发现自己竟然患上了癌症，而凯瑟琳决定将此作为自己的秘密，一直保守下去。 无论是凯瑟琳那游手好闲的兄弟西恩（约翰·本杰明·海基 John Benjamin Hickey 饰）还是永远都长不大的丈夫保罗（奥利弗·普莱特 Oliver Platt 饰），他们对于凯瑟琳的“宏图大志”都表达了怀疑的态度，幸运的是，凯瑟琳的主治医生托德（瑞德·斯科特 Reid Scott 饰）一直都坚定地支持和鼓励着凯瑟琳。癌症当前，如果还有明天，明天真的会更好吗？。
