The Mark Steel Lectures-Lord Byron 1/3

[dcoz25]

Ghost Town - the specials. 1st record I ever brought.

[dcoz25]

I love this series, thanks for uploading.

[transonicbuoy1]

"Ottoman Empire". You white racist you!

[transonicbuoy1]

Time to scrap the licence.

[transonicbuoy1]

BBC loves monkeys like these. I bet he likes a big cock.

[percyal1]

they need morgan freeman to narrate this... he makes everything more entertaining

[bestgreatvideos]

Thanks nice vid. I found poetry classics to funky music, wow. 

[jomperian23]

does this suuuuuck or what?? byron would have hated it too...

[diogeneslaertius666]

hey modernity, Fuck You.

-Joshua Roberts

[acerb45666555]

Mark's right. in the north america especially are many who see education and knowledge as a terrible thing that will ruin the primitive pool hall universe they dwell in! ive heard it, ive seen it, i know what im talkin about!

[theselah]

ghosttown THE SPECIALS

[mahyarmohaghegh]

thank you i been lookin for it for so long

[mahyarmohaghegh]

whats the song at 5:30? where hes doing weird shit in a car

[yourpopularpariah]

@mahyarmohaghegh the specials - ghost town : )

[transonicbuoy1]

Glad you speak our great language - you must hate yourself!

[rurmundo]

threats in english documentary WTFF?,lord byron its A FUCKING IDIOT,THE BRITISH COLONIZATORS ARE A STUPID ENGLISH PIRATES,CRISTOBAL COLON WAS DISCOVERED AMERICA IN 1492,THE BRITISH ARE PIRATES NO COLONIZATORS

[TheBiggestBiscuit]

"colonizator"...?

I'm not sure what a "colonizator" is supposed to be but they sound AWESOME

Oh, and just to point out... The Norse got to the America's 500 years before Columbus.

[xARMINIUSx]

the dutch AND opera is a contradictio in terminis, lol. we hate opera ( except Mozart en Beethoven afcourse....... afcourse ! )

[SirHappyThe1st]

Like all Mark Steel`s lectures funny and brilliant. I particular liked the line said in a matter of fact way

"He went to cambridge with his bear"

[Germanicus79]

we need more poets like Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Baudelaire etc, those which write their books in 'blood'or with other words, who outlived every sentence in it, and not plain romantacism. Goethe said: Romantism is sick, classicism is healthy ( Eckermann gespräche )

[xARMINIUSx]

And in his maximen und reflexionen ;-)

[shachar10]

I don't understand the connection between the quote to the sentence above. Byron and Baudelaire are not "plain" Romantics, but far from being classicists.

[diogeneslaertius666]

@Germanicus79 we do and they are invisible to the modern world because their ideas are too dangerous

[ParthianImmortal]

@Germanicus79 then set the standard, in Iran we need a Byron now, write and live.

[hempgru4]

@Germanicus79 I agree with you, though you should keep in mind poetry would be nowhere if the only thing to do was master the art of mimesis. A poet should first of all set his/her own voice, and then if he/she is to become a great poet, they must pursue that voice and vision regardless of means, ends, or morals.

[GalahadAtBlandings]

Thank you for putting this up, Coughsirup.

[mdavid62]

Quite probably, but as I've only brothers would they do? As opposed to yourself, who has clearly already done so; and that is doubtless a family tradition judging by your obvious inbreeding.

[lemontop12]

I love it when the bear flags down the bus!

[daqiao12]

bear? lol.

[priapus56]

Ancient, withered or what! I'd give 'er one. But then I am 52.

[angryyld]

Does seem to be a bit of a whitewash - why's he being portrayed as a fop and not the cold cruel bastard we know and love?

[MyTerrain]

can you fuckers ever produce a decent documentary that doesn't humiliate and defame a great figure such as LORD BYRON?

fuck the maker of this video, die of cancer.

[mdavid62]

'fuck the maker of this video, die of cancer' - are you really that much of an idiot? Simply because you disagree with the content you vomit forth bile. As with all Mark Steel lectures, it doesn't humiliate and defame its subject, but shows them 'warts and all'.

[fritspas]

well suited cromwell quote!

[meijihakusai]

@mdavid62 "vomit forth"?

[mdavid62]

@meijihakusai Yes.

[mattatood]

Thats it, passion, anger, emotion; the force is strong in this one!!! Soon you to will be buggering anything in sight, and shagging your sister!!

[MyTerrain]

die of cancer fucking pig dung

[mattatood]

Love, like a river, will cut a new path

whenever it meets an obstacle.

[mdavid62]

You really are a complete tool aren't you?

[mdavid62]

@mattatood already done that.

[alexandre1129]

lmao, The bear!

[delamarche23]

who's song is it at 4:56?

[member00]

Ghost Town by The Specials

[cielobuio]

One of my favourites - thanks for uploading.

Go see Mark Steel live if you get chance. Just as funny.

[layne316]

The Specials and Joy Division, Mark Steel had great taste in music, i met him when he came to play at Portsmouth, such a smart man his views on bono were spot on

[pastrychef1985]

Bono's a tool, agreed.

[desolationrow1]

Thanks for uploading these.

[fjordland]

Thanks for Shareing :)

[WarningDontReadThis]

haha buzzcocks bit :P