Dr. Kate Lister

One thing that you will notice about Byron all the way through his life is he is very conscious of not having super aristocratic background, that he does come from not poverty because he's got the name, but this is not a salubrious upbringing.

So he will have been aware of the need for money all of his life and kind of that slight inferiority

But it all changes when he's 10 and his great uncle dies and he inherits the title and he inherits the property portfolio, the whole lot at 10.

So they go from just living in rented accommodation around Aberdeen to boom, you've got an Abbey now, sunshine.

I don't know if anything's been proven, but he was clearly not a very nice man.

And it's the fact, I think, that what Byron inherits from this uncle is Newstead Abbey.

I don't know if you've ever been there.

It's in Nottingham.

I have been.

It's lovely, yeah.

Got quite a gothic-y feel to it, though, doesn't it?

It does.

Doesn't it?

I mean, if you're going to have satanic orgies, that's the place that you're going to do these things.

I'll take your word for that.

Would you not?

No, oh, bit of an effort.

But if you were going to, that might be the place that you would do that kind of thing.

If, big if.

Right?