Once or twice a year I will hear or watch something so good and educational that I have to stop working or driving and just absorb like a sponge. This was one of those programs. Congratulations on an amazing show!

Outstanding coverage of Byron. I loved all four episodes!

I've been hooked on this series on Byron. A wealth of fascinating material and insight, exceptionally handled and presented. Im going to finally tackle Childe Harold and Don Juan. Many thanks to you both 😊

I’ve just discovered this site. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks to send me to sleep as a cure for insomnia. Cumberbatch reading Sherlock Holmes works in 5 minutes flat, but you guys are so interesting and well presented that you actually kept me awake! The Byron story was amazing! Now I’ve subscribed and will save you for when I’m working in the garden. Back to cumberbatch for insomnia😂

Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented.

Wonderful series. Thank you. I love the pleasure with which Tom reveals every lascivious detail! Would that there had been more like Byron. History would be much more interesting! Greetings from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire - just 10 mins walk from the great man's resting place.

I've always known the name but known nothing about the name. 4 rivetting episodes that brought Lord Byron to life. 👍🇿🇦

Awesome.

I've just discovered this channel. What a wonderful dialogue....you really bring this 200 year old story to life. I will search out the other 496 episodes forthwith....though I feel Byron will be hard to match!

So many echoes of Byron in modern culture. Celebrity, scandal, the links to the tales of Dracula and of Frankenstein, and of course, the Byronic anti-hero. Great series, thanks.

This might be my favourite series yet. Thank you!

Absolutely brilliant, educational and entertaining, as usual. There were lots of mad, bad and dangerous lads in Essex when I grew up in the 70s but minus the poetry and romance.

@stephennicholas1590

20 күн бұрын

The same leftism right up to today that chants “Death to the West” and praises beheaders and communist dictators and tears down civilization. But that happens if people are morally inverted.

For those interested, Allan Barton - The Antiquary, has recently produced a video 'The Peculiar Secrets of Lord Byron's Burial Vault' on KZread.

What a wonderful journey into the shadows and the sun of Lord Byron. You have both done extremely well.

A truly excellent series - most entertaining & informative ! 👍👍

Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented. ❤

Amazing series guys, very enjoyable!

Brilliant!

Way to go! Don't let someone get away with just naming opposite things! It's the laziest form of trying to seem creative and intelligent.

This is the type of people I enjoy the most.

Fantastic series. Thanks

.A Byron series NOW !!! ...given the HBO treatment mutlitple episode/seasons...this stuff writes itself

Fantastic series, gentlemen! The best I've come across in a very long time! Mr. Holland, I bought Lord of the Dead when it first came out and it remains one of my favourites!

I'm hooked too. In fact this is my second round of listening to the complete four hours series. Fiona M.'s book will be next. Today I was checking Lord Byron's posterity. Fascinating. Greetings from Germany, and thanks for the great work!

Yes! This stuff is gold! Thank you

Brilliant series. I've always heard about Byron of course ,but never knew his story. No matter what he did he lived a very full life ,you can't fault him for that. Quite amazing really.

Excellent, thank you both

Wonderful!!

So looking forward to this episode I am so griped m! Well done guys I wish you both had taught me history, I am now obsessed thank you

Most excellent opening 🤣

Has to be one of the best deep dives into Byron in history. Delicious, horrifying, detailed......a trainereck you can't stop watching. Been waiting for this, binged watched the first 3 Episodes earlier this week. I've got an hour and a half til I need to be in a work meeting. Traffic is annoying but I'm all in. Oh, I subscribed, of coarse. Much love, and admiration. I thought I had a past!?!? Byron is a tornado ripping through Europe, lol. Deeply moving heroism displayed by the end! Fanatic job guys! You are so fun. Indefinitely yours! Marvelous, thrilling, terrific; I simply could not stop listening!

Thank you! Very interesting and entertaining

Everything about this videos is perfect.

Fascinating,would like to see a podcast about Coleridge one day.

Disfranchise is a perfectly good word. We don’t have to say disenfranchise. Just saying…😊

Fascinating 😮 From Byron Bay, idyllic, most easterly point of mainland Australia ☝️♥️✌️🌍🙏

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The author Kay Redfield Jamison declares that Lord Byron suffered from bipolar 1 disease in her book “Touched By Fire”. That book is worth reading. She is a respected psychiatrist who has written extensively on mental illness. I’m surprised Tom doesn’t mention Byron’s mental illness.

@stephennicholas1590

20 күн бұрын

Kay Redfield is out of her bloody mind.

@Nannas-cp5nd

2 күн бұрын

I'm fascinated when someone decides to diagnose a person no more alive but famous and talented. Makes me think that the above mentioned author Redfield James on just wanted to snatch some of Lord Byron's popularity. How disgusting!

@11buleria

2 күн бұрын

@@Nannas-cp5nd I have read all her books and articles. She is a psychiatrist here at ucla and a person who suffers from bi polar illness. I find her writings accurate and medically interesting. I like her book about artists, was it named Touched by Fire? I can believe Byron had a form of mania during the time of his many sexual escapades.

@11buleria

2 күн бұрын

@@Nannas-cp5nd I do not think you are right about Redfield Jameson’s motive. She has written about many well known artists. She wrote accurate and helpful books about her own mental illness. She speaks to doctors and the public about mental illness. I believe she is sincere.

@Nannas-cp5nd

2 күн бұрын

@@11buleria Sorry,I cannot agree with you either. She may have read a million books,I have too for that matter and it doesn't make me suitable for the things she does,diagnosing long dead artists. Especially because as you say,she's been diagnosed herself. Sorry,that's ridiculous,with all due respect.

Thank you for a wonderful series on Lord Byron. Thoroughly entertaining!

Rest is politics just posted too…. I’m torn which to listen to first! ❤️

@penelopehill9710

Ай бұрын

In their day these Romantics took hand of politics and together traversed the sublime. Which we too may do in travesty of our own time.

I can just see Byron and Beau Brummel sauntering through Picadilly.

Eye instead of nipples? 24C from Specsavers

Brilliant story, I wonder if he was a narcissist....😂as well as everything else...😂

@stephennicholas1590

20 күн бұрын

A narcissist as well as a nihilist

You didn't mention he is buried in Hucknall.

Byron the first influencer

Thank you for joining the dots …ohhh human nature ,,,it’s complicated

Is Tom deliberately mispronouncing “Don Juan?”

@marywoolley-nb7ct

Ай бұрын

Apparently that is the way that Byron pronounced it 🤷🏼

@danatowne5498

Ай бұрын

I think it is Ju-an to rhyme with By-ron, because it is really about him. ?

@HD-ol1mc

Ай бұрын

Yes when reading to the poem it’s specifically “Don Joo-an” to rhyme correctly, Byron was very clear about that and it’s not the only mispronunciation joke in the poem 😊.

As we move from this wretched puritanical age this is apropos…

@stephennicholas1590

20 күн бұрын

Your comment makes me think of a tree tearing out its own roots in the fatal delusion that it can fly.

I wonder if Byron is a much better character to study,than a poet.Presume he was a decent husband,father,brother,friend,but wrote the same poems. How darkness and filth is worshiped!

@goyonman9655

Ай бұрын

Thank you soooo much. I hate how people venerate this kind of thing

Lord Byron, the Gary Glitter of the Nineteenth Century. If he was working class he would have been banged up and left to rot, but he was posh and wrote poetry, so the British love him.

@stephennicholas1590

20 күн бұрын

Well said

The more I learn about Byron, the lower my impression is if anyone thay likes him as anything more than an author and a fundraiser.

rewinded 5 times and at last realised the word Tom Holland was trying to say was “gavur” . Now since his defacto g pronounciation was a j sound instead of a hard g (which would have been the correct one), it stands to reason that he is on the “jif” side of the GIF debate.

Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented.