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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）。这是史上最大的艺术品盗窃案：在1990年圣帕特里克节的周末，伦勃朗、维米尔等大师的画作在波士顿的伊莎贝拉嘉纳艺术博物馆被盗，损失超过5亿美元。这一案件至今未破，而这部科林·巴尼克尔执导的四集纪录片展示了调查中掌握的线索、遇到的僵局、取得的突破以及相关推测。。20世纪30年代的西班牙，一种奇怪病症在孩子中间蔓延，感染此症的孩子没有汗腺，不会流泪，毫无痛感。为防止进一步的危害，当权者将患病儿童隔离关入修道院，彻底剥夺了他们的自由。囚禁在方寸间的男孩班尼诺（Ilias Stothart 饰）为隔壁的歌声吸引，他通过挖出的小洞和女孩伊涅丝（Liah O'Prey 饰）成为好朋友。这群可怜的孩子必须通过独特的方式学习“疼痛”。 当代的西班牙，医生戴维（Àlex Brendemühl 饰）驱车途中发生严重车祸，妻子安娜丝（Irene Montalà 饰）命归黄泉，腹中才6个月的孩子却得以幸免。暂时逃过鬼门关的戴维随后获知自己已患有致命的淋巴癌，生命不知何时终结。为了得到骨髓移植，戴维不得不求助于年迈的父母，却得知了一个深藏已久的秘密……。
