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.
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