Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast

Episode 20: It’s The Moffatt Show!

Welcome to the Lord of Adders Black fan podcast, where Michael and Ian explore the universe of cult sitcom Blackadder while diving off at the occasional gleeful tangent.

In our twentieth episode, we cast a wary eye over the “Blackadders that got away” – the ideas for a fifth series that never got off the ground because they lacked potential or because they strayed too far from the core make-up of the series. Or because they were bollocks.

Having taken part in our Christmas quiz, our good friend and fellow podcaster Ciarán Moffatt returns for a huge roller coaster of a chat about Keinrick and Mossop, the thespians who fall foul of Blackadder in the Season 3 episode Sense & Senility. Needless to say, we also talk about the seasoned actors who played them, Kenneth Conner and Hugh Paddick, and the role they played in radio, film, television and in bringing the secret gay language Polari to the masses.

Flixwatchers episode with Ian and Michael as guests:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Co708XLMU8x3LMottSsmf

Here is a link to the LOAB t-shirts sold on eBay by our friend Mike at Silly Tees, with £5 from each purchase going to Cancer Research UK, link here:

https://shorturl.at/6H6Q8

Information on Jem Roberts and his creative exploits can be found at:

jemroberts.com and talesofbritain.com

The audiobook of The True History Of The Black Adder – read by the author himself – is available on Audible:

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-True-History-of-the-Blackadder-Audiobook/B0C82XDHPY?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

As always, you can find the Ronald Lacey Fans Twitter account at @RonaldLaceyFans

Thanks to the following for their valuable support:

Reddit Blackadder community: www.reddit.com/r/blackadder/

Blackadder – quotes, clips and pictures: https://www.facebook.com/share/NVQ6pTtJt8Hzve9X/?mibextid=K35XfP

The Ultimate Blackadder Group:

https://www.facebook.com/share/aLnsHrXM4FiyejuK/?mibextid=K35XfP

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Podcast credits:

Compiled and presented by Ian Winick and Michael J. Smith

Blackadder theme music by Howard Goodall

Intro music performed by Pank (@pankp007 on Twitter)

Outro music performed by Chin Topiwalla (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076430403956

https://www.facebook.com/summer.s.spell.music)

Cover art drawing by Pierre Breton (fpma.breton@wanadoo.fr).

Check out his Little Darwin comic here: https://tapas.io/episode/1727663

Big thanks to all of the above and to Captain Spreadsheet for transatlantic technical (and moral) support.

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