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Byron's Fancy

4 Extra Debut. After an assault, reckless poet and seducer Lord Byron opts to learn self defence with a famous boxing coach. Stars Jonathan Firth.

Cambridge, 1807: Lord Byron is a 19 year old undergraduate at Cambridge.

He's already a published poet and an established dissolute.

During an intrigue, he is badly beaten up and so goes into training at Gentleman John Jackson's Boxing Academy.

For payment, the bankrupt poet will teach the champion wrestler to write verse.

Starring Jonathan Firth and Gareth Corke.

Written by David Pownall.

Byron .... Jonathan Firth
John Edleston .... Gareth Corke
Gentleman John Jackson .... David Troughton
Mrs Ransom .... Amanda Root
Byron's Mother .... Jennifer Piercey
Lord Grey .... David Allister
Kitty .... Alison Pettitt
MC/Coachman .... Ben Crowe

Director Marina Caldarone

First broadcast on 主播大秀 Radio 3 in June 1999

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1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

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