Hello and welcome to Lord of Adders Black – a fan podcast dedicated to the legendary BBC sitcom Blackadder, which ran for four seasons between 1983 and 1989 and has endured as a comedy classic ever since.
Join Ian, Michael and a roster of special guests as we delve deeply into the Blackadder universe, exploring new angles, uncovering trivia and shining a spotlight on key players, scene stealers and the occasional thingy-shaped turnip.
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Hello and welcome to Lord of Adders Black – a fan podcast dedicated to the legendary BBC sitcom Blackadder, which ran for four seasons between 1983 and 1989 and has endured as a comedy classic ever since.
Join Ian, Michael and a roster of special guests as we delve deeply into the Blackadder universe, exploring new angles, uncovering trivia and shining a spotlight on key players, scene stealers and the occasional thingy-shaped turnip.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast
Episode 32: “It’s The Lying I Find Most Hurtful”
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.
This week’s Major Star segment is a twofer featuring two of our favourite characters in the original series: Elspet Gray as the Queen and Robert East as Prince Harry. We take a look at their respective roles in the court of Brian Blessed while touching upon Prince Harry’s well-known obsession with drains and his lesser known fear of spoons. And speaking of obsessions, we also look at how a writer’s blunder gave the humble turnip a prominent position in the Blackadder annals.
Prolific podcaster and British comedy enthusiast Bill Peters from New South Wales makes a welcome return to our podcast to fight the corner for Blackadder The Third as the best of the four series. Bill talks about what he loves about the team’s third outing and why, for him, it is the quintessential series of Blackadder.
Choose your top five Scene Stealers, go to the following link:
https://app.sli.do/event/9nF95VosBzxyqmmcTbMTv3
Send us a voice message to include in the show, SpeakPipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/Lord_Of_Adders_Black.
Link to Ciarán’s new podcast:
Jem Roberts can be found at:
jemroberts.com and talesofbritain.com
The audiobook of The True History Of The Black Adder is available on Audible:
Thanks to the following communities:
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
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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