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维多利亚时代犯罪剧《开膛街（Ripper Street）》设置在1889年开膛手杰克案发生后六个月。这部剧因收视低下被BBC在第二季结束时砍掉，但最近亚马逊宣布负责“救剧”，在它的支持下，第三季将于2014年5月开拍，并于亚马逊首播后，再登陆BBC。。“人生本是戏”，艺术和生活的界限模糊了一个上海名门之后的海外闯荡，一个超逾时代的女性偶像，她就是周采芹Tsai Chin！从成为首位轰动西方的华裔邦女郎，到蜚声好莱坞的华裔演员，她历经繁华，也尝尽苦涩。周采芹刻入骨髓里的坚毅与傲气，使得耄耋之年的她，仍在表演艺术上坦荡无畏地续写传奇……。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）。