Dan Snow

He was politically engaged.

He was a best-selling poet.

His verses were deeply stirring to people.

He was also vulnerable, cruel.

Anxious, traumatised, jealous, ambitious, he was all the things.

And to help us make sense of that, because we're tackling the poster boy for sex and scandal in Regency society, there is only one person on this earth, breathing today, who can do justice to this story.

And that is the inimitable Kate Lister.

Dr. Kate Lister, historian, host of our sister podcast, Betwixt the Sheets.

So, lace up your true, pull up your stockings, buckle on your sword, because we are heading back to the 18th century to meet the poet who lived fast, loved hard, and died young, Lord Byron.

Who was he?

The man behind the headlines.

And did he deserve that epic reputation, one of the greatest obituaries ever written, that he was mad, bad, and dangerous to know?

Let's find out.

You're listening to Dan Snow's History.

We'll get into it.

Kate, how you doing?

Good to see you.

The House of Byron?

Yeah, I mean, they were all wrong-uns, weren't they?

Yeah, I know.