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故事讲述Laura Simmonds和她的巴塞罗那领事同事兼朋友Alba Ortiz，为保护那些在加泰罗尼亚地区陷入困境的英国国民而战斗。Laura和Alba担任的角色混合了律师、顾问和警察，她们的外交技巧在解决各种困境中发挥到了极致。 剧集开场，一名年轻的英国人莫名身亡，他生前曾在巴塞罗那臭名昭著的码头附近当酒吧招待。尽管西班牙警方和英国外交部都认为这只是起悲惨的意外事故，但Laura支持这名男孩悲愤的父亲Colin，他坚信儿子死的那晚发生了更可怕的事情。 随着新证据的出现和一场谋杀案调查的展开，Laura和Alba发现酒吧男招待的死亡、有组织犯罪和英国安全部门之间存在联系。Laura坚决要曝光英国和西班牙两国不遗余力埋藏的秘密，而她对于正义的追求将她置于真正的危险之中。。Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.。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）。
