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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）。这集，神勇干探陈家驹（成龙 饰）将远赴大陆，化身囚犯打入国际军火毒品走私集团的内部。在大陆美女公安杨建华（杨紫琼 饰）的帮助下，家驹顺利接近了正在服刑的集团成员豹强（元华 饰）。豹强视家驹为心腹，和他策划越狱行动。为了放长线，家驹爽快应承了。 他们越狱后，豹强主张到家驹随口编出来的家乡躲避，幸得杨建华提前安排，才没有漏出马脚，杨建华自称家驹妹妹，与他们同行。他们来到香港见到了集团的老大猜霸，顺利成为集团的一员。猜霸带着手下前往吉隆坡营救被绑架的妻子，遇到了家驹的女友阿美（张曼玉 饰）。阿美不知家驹正在执行任务，以为他和杨建华在偷情。阿美的举动引起了集团成员的怀疑，连场大战一触即发！。