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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.
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Lecture 01 - Lord Byron
Lecture 02 - Isaac Newton
Lecture 03 - Sigmund Freud
Lecture 04 - Aristotle
Lecture 05 - Charles Darwin
Lecture 06 - Karl Marx
Lecture 07 - Ludwig van Beethoven
Lecture 08 - Leonardo da Vinci
Lecture 09 - Mary Shelley
Lecture 10 - Thomas Paine
Lecture 11 - Sylvia Pankhurst
Lecture 12 - Albert Einstein
Lecture 13 - Oliver Cromwell
Lecture 14 - Charlie Chaplin
Lecture 15 - Rene Descartes
Lecture 16 - Geoffrey Chaucer
Lecture 17 - Harriet Tubman
Lecture 18 - Che Guevara