Lord Byron: life of the week
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:50.6 | Hello and welcome to Life of the Week from History Extra, where leading historians delve into the lives of history's most intriguing and significant figures. |
| 1:03.0 | Famously branded as mad, bad and dangerous to know, Lord Byron captured the imagination and attention of early 19th century Britain |
| 1:13.3 | with his soul-bearing poetry, decadent lifestyle and torrid love affairs. |
| 1:20.0 | In today's Life of the Week episode, Ellie Corthorne speaks to broadcaster and academic |
| 1:25.9 | Corinne Throsby about how the romantic poet became the |
| 1:30.5 | era's most scandalous celebrity. Thanks so much for joining me today, Corin. We're going to be |
| 1:37.0 | talking about the life and legacy of Lord Byron. So the 19th of April this year marks the 200th |
| 1:44.1 | anniversary of Byron's death. Why are we still talking |
| 1:47.6 | about him all these years on? Well, he was one of the greatest British poets. He was part of the |
| 1:53.3 | romantic movement. And even though a lot of people don't know his poetry necessarily, they do |
| 1:59.6 | know a bit about his persona that he created in his life. |
| 2:03.5 | I think the quote that people most know is actually from one of his ex-lovers, |
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