![]() So not only could they not go outside, because the weather was a bit rubbish, but I think the grimness maybe influenced what they chose to do while they were sitting inside, which is sharing ghost stories. Coleridge, who was another poet at the time called it, end of the world weather. And people have argued that music gets really miserable and there's lots of paintings that are very dark and seem really grim. It's sometimes known as the year without summer. It put so much ash into the sky, that then swirled around the Earth's atmosphere, settled around Europe, and made the sky's very dark, and the weather very, very bad. One of the largest laconic eruptions ever recorded. It's debatable, but it said that the weather was so bad, because right over almost the other side of the world in Indonesia, there'd been a huge volcanic eruption the year before. ![]() They had all these lovely ideas of hanging out in Switzerland, and it's going to be beautiful weather and they'd be in the outdoors and there'd be the mountains and the lake, but the weather was just terrible. Meanwhile, another friend of his, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who's another poet, had brought along his girlfriend, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and has stepsister Claire Clairmont, who had quite a crush on Lord Byron, I think. And his friend and doctor John Polidori had joined them. It was the summer of 1816, Lord Byron had taken a mansion by Lake Geneva, Lord Byron the poet, probably to escape a bit of debt and scandal. Writer, Alice Bell kicks off today's show with a true story of how just one summer of bad weather changed the course of British literature. So how do we come to terms with the unthinkable? In part through fiction. And now we're looking at a future that is beyond most people's capacity, even to imagine. The Earth's climate has changed in ways that can't be put back. ![]() ![]() It's To The Best of Our Knowledge, I'm Anne Strainchamps. ![]()
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