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The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet

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An impression of George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron devised by Jane McCulloch with James Bolam as Lord Byron
Lord Byron had a head which statuaries loved to copy and a deformity of Sot, which beggars in the street mimicked. Yet from Lord Byron was drawn a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness a system in which trie two great commandments were: to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind. (LORD MACAULAY)
and the voices of: PETRA DAVIES, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, JAN WATERS, JANE WENHAM, PATRICK BARR, ADRIAN EGAN, MARTIN FRIEND, NEVILLE JASON, DANNY SCHILLER and GABRIEL WOOLF

Narrator Robin Holmes
Music composed by DONALD FRASER PETER CIVIL (horn) RUTH NUNN (guitar) and DONALD FRASER (keyboard)
Singer JAN WATERS
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
George Gordon.
Unknown:
Jane McCulloch
Unknown:
James Bolam
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Byron Lord Byron
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
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Patrick Barr
Unknown:
Adrian Egan
Unknown:
Neville Jason
Unknown:
Danny Schiller
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Narrator:
Robin Holmes
Composed By:
Donald Fraser
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
Source: Radio Times

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