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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）。《世界末日生存指南》是一部以欧文（格雷戈·格伦伯格 Greg Grunberg 饰）和史蒂夫（尼尔·格雷斯通 Neil Grayston 饰）为主角的喜剧片。这两个人在一家音像店工作，他们是科幻电影的狂热爱好者，对世界末日的理论了解得非常透彻。然而，尽管欧文非常擅长记住电影明星的生日，却忘记了自己女朋友赛琳娜（卡罗琳·凯芙 Caroline Cave 饰）的生日，甚至没有为她准备礼物。 就在这个时候，世界末日真的降临了，而这两个宅男必须利用他们通过电影学到的知识来拯救地球。他们展开了一系列滑稽而又令人捧腹的行动，试图阻止世界末日的来临。他们寻找电影中的线索，使用电影中的战斗技能，与此同时，欧文还要试图恢复与赛琳娜之间的关系，他们的任务异常艰巨。。性格大大咧咧的节子（松隆子 饰）刚刚惨遭男友抛弃， 又被母亲逼着相亲，无奈之下，她只得和相亲对象广濑光太郎（佑介 饰）见了面。相互交换了“绝对不会相亲结婚”的意见，两人的心中都松了一口气，可是缘分是如此的神奇，在之后的日子里，节子和光太郎的命运纠缠在了一起。 随着时间的推移，在经历了种种波折之后，节子和光太郎之间竟然产生了真挚的感情，没过多久，两人就开始谈婚论嫁，可是就在这个节骨眼上，节子发现了光太郎的软弱和不负责任。节子前男友的出现让动摇了光太郎的自信，为了展现自己的实力，他辞去了稳定的工作，进入了前途未卜的小公司开辟市场，就这样，节子和光太郎分手了。。
