Byron

The Resource Byron
Label
Byron
Statement of responsibility
BBC ; written by Nick Dear ; produced by Ruth Baumgarten ; directed by Julian Farino ; executive producers, Laura Mackie, Hilary Salmon, Andrea Miller
Contributor
Actor
Screenwriter
Director
Producer
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Byron charts the rise and fall of an irresistible and devastatingly handsome genius who had it all and threw it all away. It begins as Byron's struggle for acceptance as a poet is reversed by the publication of Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage, which turns him into an overnight success and the toast of London society--the 19th century equivalent of a bad-boy rock star. While disdaining social conventions, he needs money, so marries wealthy pious Annabella Milbanke after becoming in-famous for his affairs with serving girls, society beauties, and his half-sister, leaving the landscape littered with illegitimate children. As his reputation spreads, it is permanently tarnished, so Byron abandons England for self-imposed exile in Venice, and dies after taking up the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, David Odd ; editor, Pia Di Ciaula ; music, Adrian Johnston ; production designer, John-Paul Kelly ; costume designer, Jenny Beavan ; hair & make-up designer, Daniel Phillips
Date time place
Originally broadcast in two parts in 2003
Language note
In English; closed-captioned
PerformerNote
Jonny Lee Miller (George Gordon, Lord Byron), Vanessa Redgrave (Lady Melbourne), Natasha Little (Augusta Leigh), Philip Glenister (William Fletcher), Julie Cox (Anabella Milbanke), Stephen Campbell Moore (John Cam Hobhouse), Camilla Power (Caroline Lamb), Oliver Dimsdale (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Sally Hawkins (Mary Shelley)
Runtime
150
Technique
live action
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