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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）。上海法租界老城区发生一起凶杀案。案发现场除了死者财叔外，还有受伤昏迷的上海华声广播电台播音员蓝妙如。蓝妙如双目失明，长期租住在财叔的房子里，与财叔常有往来。凶杀案发生后，巡捕房探长陈亨利带儿子陈天生出现场勘察。从现场勘察的结果和蓝妙如苏醒后的回忆推断，天生认为凶手应该是两个人，而蓝妙如就是“目击者”。 蓝妙如是陈探长夫人的崇拜偶像。蓝妙如出院后被陈太太接到自己家，安排在儿子天生的房间。从蓝妙如就餐时的反应和黑暗处时的神情来看，天生觉得蓝妙如作为“目击者”似乎有些问题。妙如稍有好转就到电台上班，借助媒体记者的关心，蓝妙如规劝凶杀案的两名凶手投案自首。 媒体的报道激起凶手江涛和豹子的气愤，也为蓝妙如招来杀身之祸。月上树梢，回到财叔公寓的蓝妙如遭到袭击，现场留下公寓底下开赌场的方文华的尸体。财叔的案情还没有进展，方文华又遭谋杀，而且现场遗留物显示凶手为同一...。