Dr. Kate Lister
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I'm doing fabulously well.
Yeah, they really were.
The further you go back, the madder they get.
And his mum's family, they were pretty bonkers as well.
Yeah, quite a high rate of suicide.
He had an aunt that killed herself and then some paternal... Yeah, there's quite a lot of mental instability kicking around.
Yeah, I would have thought so.
Quite how we've even made it as a race is pretty impressive.
But when you look at some of the obstacles these people were overcoming and just the kind of horror that was pretty much standard in everyday life.
Yeah, it's a wonder anyone was sane.
Maybe there was one or two sane Byrons who just never made the news.
Who just like, you know, tended a little herb garden and were perfectly well adjusted.
Yeah, they were.
His dad was known as Mad Jack Byron, who was a notorious scallywag.
He has the title and also a bit of incest with his own sister.