Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
Acting
Jonny Lee Miller's smoldering, self-aware Byron.
Production
BBC budget doing absolute most with candlelit estates.
Writing
Dialogue that bites harder than Byron's actual verses.
Director
Julian Farino
Jonny Lee Miller
Lord Byron
Natasha Little
Augusta Leigh
Vanessa Redgrave
Lady Melbourne
Camilla Power
Lady Caroline Lamb
Julie Cox
Annabella Millbanke
Stephen Campbell Moore
John Cam Hobhouse
Sally Hawkins
Mary Shelley
Branka Katić
Teresa Guiccioli
Philip Glenister
William Fletcher
Julian Firth
Thomas Moore
David Ryall
Sir Ralph Milbanke
Penny Downie
Lady Judith Milbanke
Philip Anthony
Piccadilly Butler
Jean-François Wolff
Tita
Mark Bazeley
Trelawney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jonny Lee Miller later played Sherlock in Elementary — this is basically warm-up tortured genius.
The real Byron kept his pet bear in his Cambridge rooms because dogs were banned. The film sadly omits this.
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