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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）。故事讲述在维多利亚统治的最后几年，伦敦被「Touched」所困扰，这是一个大多数为女性的群体，他们突然表现出异常的能力，有的能力很迷人，有的则令人不安。这群人中，就包括神秘、吝啬的寡妇Amalia True，和杰出的年轻发明家Penance Adair。两人是这个新产生的下层阶级的拥护者，为「Touched」建立起了一个家，同时与各方势力斗争，为那些所知历史上没有立足之地的人赢得空间。 本剧是Joss Whedon自2009年《玩偶特工》以来首部独自创作的剧集，他和《吸血鬼猎人巴菲》编剧Jane Espenson、Doug Petrie共同负责剧本。Whedon在负责完首季前半部分后，因故退出该项目，Philippa Goslett被选任为新剧集运作人，负责后半部分，Whedon仍然保留创作者和执行制片的头衔。。歷經十年拍攝，本片記錄大衛梅曼幾乎不可能完成的任務—以世界上第一個噴氣背包繞著自由女神像飛行。他自幼對噴氣背包的熱情，轉而成為痴迷、成癮。即使過程中差點溺斃、與孩子們逐漸疏遠、甚至因為受傷做了皮膚移植手術，最後仍然達成目標將噴氣背包做為救援工具，一了心願。。
