byron

Year

2003

directed by

Julian Farino

starring

Jonny Lee Miller

Philip Glenister

Michael Elwyn

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

byron scenes on GOZO

Before the rescue.

Meeting with the Turkish Governor in a rooftop setting in sweeping views of Gozo’s landscape.

Byron is told the news about Shelley.

Shelley's funeral pyre on Ramla Beach.

byron filming locations map

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.