As royal residences go, Buckingham Palace is something of a newcomer. The staterooms are less than 200 years old. Yet its history is much older and more dramatic than you might think. Its rooms are filled with objects that are clues to the character...
Moray: What is it, Denise? Denise: I'm sorry, sir, I wasn't dawdling. Moray: You were watching those ladies. What were you thinking? Denise: Nothing, sir, I...Only, it came into my mind that...No. Moray: Yes, yes, yes. Go on. Denise: Miss Paradise Pi...
文本： -I put him in an empty cottage and fed him from the kitchens. I couldn't buy food in the village, it would raise too many questions. I stole. I'm a thief. She...saw it. -I'd never have said anything, Mr-- -And now my disgrace is complete. M...
文本： But for those chieftains, sensible enough to reach for the olive branch rather than the battle javelin, Claudius had another plan. Give them, or rather their sons, a trip to Rome, and a taste of the dolce vita, and just watch their resistan...
C- Christopher Tietjens Mac- MacMaster Mac: A weekend on the golf links might do me some good, hobnobbing with our masters. I will change into my golfing togs when we get to our digs. One never knows who might be on the train. Mr Sandbach MP, going d...
Buckingham Palace is a building with a deep hold on the public imagination. Not only is it the seat of the British monarchy and headquarters of royal affairs of state. But also, thanks to its famous balcony, it's become the national focus for great m...
Katherine:Moray! Let me introduceyou to my dearest friend, Jocelin. Moray: I've heard a great deal about you, MrsBrookmire. Katherine's compliments were fulsome, but not fulsome enough.Welcome to my store. Jocelin: I am utterlyenchanted. I suspect I...
文本： It's home to a living fossil, a relict, barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara. And half the world's population survive on this one island refuge. During the reign of the dinosaurs, the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhe...
文本： -For once in your life, will you please just listen?! I believe there's an answer which would secure your future and give you a position. -You can't be serious. -Just think about it. -I don't have to think about it. Marry a man who can bare...
The kind of army which could barely be conceived of, much less encountered in Iron Age Britain. Claudius did succeed where Julius Caesar had failed, through a brilliant strategy of carrot and stick. Yes, he would seize the largely undefended oppidan...
文本： S- Sylvia Satterthwaite P- Potty S: Er... I overlooked you. Your dullness, and not knowing French and drinking too much or too little and oh, I don't know, everything really, from being all over me the moment we were on the train to sulking...
Merlin: How is he? Gaius: It's most odd. Look at this. See these two small wounds? Looks like a snake bite. Merlin: How could he be bitten by a snake? He was injured in a sword-fight. Gaius: His symptoms are consistent with poisoning. Slow pulse, fev...
Jocelin:Oh, Katherine, you told me this was a shop. This isn't a shop. This is akind of heaven. Katherine: Well, you mustspoil yourself a little, Jocelin...andif you won't, then I will. Jocelin: I don'tknow where to start. Sam: Perhaps I could sugges...
文本： The spider-silk lure hangs below the kite, flitting across the water like an insect. Now he must steer the kite to where he thinks the fish are gathered. Somewhere, just beneath the surface, shoals of needlefish lie in wait....
文本： A century later, Claudius, the club-foot stammerer, on the face of it, the most unlikely conqueror of all, was determined to get it right. If it was going to be done at all, Claudius reckoned, it had to be done in such massive force that th...
