Lord Byron: Incest, Adultery & Daddy Issues

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How debaucherous do you have to be to be remembered as the original bad boy? How mad, bad and dangerous to know was Lord Byron? And how much of it did he get from his family?

For this episode, Kate is joined by Emily Brand, the author of ‘The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England’. From incest to murder - this family must have made for a very awkward dinner party.

Poems by George Gordon Byron read by Matt Lewis: ‘So, We’ll Go No More A Roving’ and lines 1089 to 1096 of Don Juan, canto 2.

*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Sophie Gee.

Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.

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0:00.0	Everyone leaves a legacy.
0:02.2	But a legacy can change over time as new generations
0:05.6	re-examine old preputations.
0:07.6	From Wundery and Gohanger podcasts, I'm F4Hersh.
0:11.0	I'm Peter Frankapan, and in a brand new series,
0:14.0	we're exploring the lives of some of the biggest characters in history,
0:17.4	from Napoleon to Picasso.
0:19.2	And asking, what does their past tell us about our present?
0:23.4	This is legacy.
0:24.7	Follow now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Hello, my lovely Bertwick Stairs.
0:35.0	It's me, Kate Lister.
0:36.4	I am here with your Fair Doo's warning
0:39.3	to protect you from the absolute filth and debauchery
0:42.5	that is going to assail you on this podcast.
0:45.0	And if you haven't been here before,
0:46.8	what is a Fair Doo's warning?
0:48.4	A Fair Doo's warning is where I give you a warning
0:51.6	that this is an adult podcast spoken by adults
0:54.3	to other adults about adults objects in an adulty way.
0:57.8	So if you continue to listen to this
1:00.8	and you happen to get offended by any of that adult content,
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