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59岁的丹尼尔·布莱克（戴夫·琼斯 Dave Johns 饰）是个木匠，由于心脏问题，他生平第一次需要申请社会救济。尽管他的医生禁止他继续工作，但他依然决定冒着被罚款的风险找一份工作。在他反复前往“就业中心”求职的过程中，他结识了凯蒂（海莉·斯奎尔斯 Hayley Squires 饰），一位需要照顾两个孩子的单身母亲。为了不让孩子流落到儿童福利院，她不得不住在一间离自己出生地450公里远的住房内。当今英国行政机构的繁琐程序就像一张网，牢牢套住两人。丹尼尔和凯蒂决定尝试相互帮助……。建筑设计师道格（保罗•纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）在自己设计的旧金山摩天大楼竣工之际，希望抛开工作，开始计划已久的远行，然而此时，主仓库传来了报警信号，在大楼指挥中心哈里协助下，道格查明保险终端柜没有绝缘保护，而整栋大楼的电路都远没有达到自己的设计要求。大楼建筑商邓肯和女婿罗杰为了节省建筑成本，降低了大楼防火规格。邓肯和一班各界名流齐聚于135层的舞厅庆祝大楼落成，电路系统不堪负荷终于引发明火，道格和前来灭火的消防队长迈克（史蒂夫•麦奎因 Steve McQueen 饰）力劝邓肯疏散人群。消防设施不完善的摩天楼火势很快难以控制，道格、哈里以及迈克的消防队员们各尽所能救援人群，但汹涌的大火，似乎要吞噬一切……。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）。