Dan Snow

We've got ideas around democracy and ideas, dare we even say, about feminism.

We've had the American Revolution.

It is a tumultuous time.

Is dad and mum together when he was born?

I mean, obviously they were together nine months before he was born.

No.

Okay.

So his mother has been ruined by her marriage to this man.

Does Byron grow up in... He's upper class.

He's descended from aristocrats on both sides, but does he grow up in straightened circumstances?

do we think this experience we can't psychoanalyze him at this distance but what does he tell us about this childhood and how do you think it might have shaped him

That is the funny thing about the aristocracy.

Like some random uncle dies and you just go, oh, sorry, you're now unbelievably wealthy.

You're a lord now as well.

You're a lord.

As I say, he's a full lord.

Full lord.

And we just quickly got to pause on the fact we're introducing yet another wild character here.

He's inherited from his uncle who was called the Wicked Lord Byron.

Anything proven gossip around devil worship, orgies?