Byron
Synopsis
‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, this TV film follows Lord Byron as he becomes the toast of London following the success of his poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Production Info
Released
2003
Directed
Julian Farino
Starring
Jonny Lee Miller
Philip Glenister
Michael Elwyn
Byron Scenes on Gozo
Byron enters a Greek village Before the rescue. Meeting with the Turkish Governor in a rooftop setting with sweeping views of Gozo’s landscape. Shelley’s funeral pyre on Ramla Beach. Byron heads out for a post-pyre swim
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Did you Know
It’s uncertain if Lord Byron ever visited Gozo, but he certainly made it to Malta—and was less than impressed. In his poem Farewell to Malta, Byron famously wrote, “Adieu, ye cursed streets of stairs! (How surely he who mounts you swears!),” capturing his disdain for the capital, Valletta.
Perhaps it’s this sentiment that leads many to misattribute the phrase “Yells, Bells, and Smells” to him. In reality, it was coined by an anonymous Scottish soldier and shared with actor David Niven when he arrived for an army posting in 1929. Niven later included it in his excellent autobiography, The Moon’s a Balloon.
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