Mark Steel Lectures Series One
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- Episode
- Lord Byron
- Broadcast Info
- 2003 (29 mins)
- Description
- 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 from Byron’s bedroom to his deathbed in Nottinghamshire, London and Athens.
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.
Byron biography - Genre
- History; Philosophy; Comedy
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The Open University, "Mark Steel Lectures Series One". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/6815 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)