Mark Steel Lectures - Lord Byron
Mark Steel follows the glorious life of Lord Byron from his birth just off Oxford Street in London to his death
in Greece thirty-six years later. We see Byron on the beach, Byron and his pet bear and Byron on Never Mind the Buzzcocks,
as Mark traces an extraordinary, unpredictable and rude life in Nottinghamshire, London and Athens, from Byron's bedroom
to his deathbed.
In Lord Byron, Mark finds echoes of other modern heroes - revolutionaries, adventurers and poets like Joe Strummer,
Lech Walesa and David Beckham, and suggests convincingly that Byron would have enjoyed Last of the Summer Wine.
(from open2.net)
| Mark Steel Lectures - Lord Byron |
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| Lord Byron - Wikipedia George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. |
| The Romantics This is a BBC documentary series presented by Peter Ackroyd, exploring the turbulent story of the pioneers of modern imagination: their private pleasures, personal dreams and political passions. |
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