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该剧改编自18世纪同名经典小说，剧本由Harriet Warner负责。故事讲述自恋的梅特伊侯爵夫人及瓦尔蒙子爵是前恋人亦是对手，他们皆擅长用诱惑来控制及利用别人。剧集会讲述这两个角色的早年起源故事。。2015年是哈勃望远镜发射25周年，这件事推动我们进入了天文学黄金时代，并使我们比以往任何时候都更接近于回答最令人困惑的问题。比如：宇宙的起源是什么？还有其他像我们一样有着丰富生活的世界吗？哈勃望远镜带着新的高科技走向更广阔的宇宙，科学家用返回的数据去解释星系的形状，解释星辰的变迁，和宇宙是如何诞生生命的。这部纪录片的视觉盛宴是通过超级计算机模拟宇宙事件，并且以最具艺术的动画片形式将现代天文学最前沿的的发现带到了生活中。令人惊讶于3.5亿光年的超大黑洞。令人赞叹于猎户星云的美丽。。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）。