Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast

Episode 10: Ten Shun!

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 odd gleeful tangent.

As the title suggests, our tenth episode has a military theme as our friend Kevin Brown – formerly a lowly Lance Corporal in the British army before moving to Canada to scale the dizzying heights of podcast fame – drops in on our squalid bit of line to talk about Blackadder Goes Forth and how accurately it portrays military life.

This time around, our Scene Stealer is Warren Clarke, who gave a memorable performance as Amy’s pig-loving father Mr Hardwood in the penultimate episode of Blackadder The Third. We take a look at his long and varied career as a character actor, how he ended up hamming it up on the Blackadder set (pun intended) and how Les Dawson was an unlikely source of inspiration.

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More information about 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 communities for their valuable support:

The King Of Blackadder Twitter community: @pitchblacksteed

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

Follow us on

Twitter: @LordAddersBlack

Bluesky: @lordofaddersblack.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559091752318

Instagram: lord_of_adders_black

e-mail: lordofaddersblack@gmx.net

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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Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast

Episode 9: A Comedy History Jem (Part Two)

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 odd gleeful tangent.

Our ninth episode concludes our two-part interview with Jem Roberts, author of The True History Of The Black Adder, who talks to us about writing and researching his favourite book (and ours!) – with input from virtually everyone of note in the Blackadder universe.

This time around, our Scene Stealer is the late and much missed Robbie Coltrane in his role as the phrasmotically pompous Dr Johnson in Ink & Incapability, the episode that topped our Newbie list poll. We also look at other memorable roles that Robbie has brought to life and demonstrate how to single out his laugh in a studio audience.

As ever, there are lashings of trivia, listener messages and more audio clips than you can shake a stick at!

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More information about 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 communities for their valuable support:

The King Of Blackadder Twitter community: @pitchblacksteed

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

Follow us on:

Twitter: @LordAddersBlack

Bluesky: @lordofaddersblack.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559091752318

Instagram: lord_of_adders_black

e-mail: lordofaddersblack@gmx.net

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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast

Episode 8: A Comedy History Jem (Part One)

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 tangent.

We kick off episode number eight with a Scene Stealer feature on Peter Cook, who lost his head in the very first outing of The Black Adder – but not before defining the landscape of British comedy as we know it.

All great TV comedy stories start with Peter Cook and our special guest’s is no exception. This episode includes the first of a two-part interview with Jem Roberts, writer of The True History Of The Black Adder and the official biographer of Fry & Laurie, Douglas Adams and other leading lights of comedy.

Here, Jem recounts some of the many rosy-cheeked caperings that occurred while researching his labour of love, such as being gifted with the unpublished Blackadder In Bethlehem script by Richard Curtis, revisiting unused sketches with Stephen Fry – and not being sued by Rowan Atkinson.

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More information about 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 communities for their valuable support:

The King Of Blackadder Twitter community: @pitchblacksteed

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

Follow us on

Twitter: @LordAddersBlack

Bluesky: @lordofaddersblack.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559091752318

Instagram: lord_of_adders_black

e-mail: lordofaddersblack@gmx.net

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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.