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 22: Sacred Cows and Silly Bulls
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.
Michael’s two favourite 80s sitcoms – one from the past, one from the future – come together to give us this episode’s Scene Stealer: Red Dwarf’s very own Chris Barrie. We talk about the leading roles at the centre of Chris’s curiously un-chequered career and his memorable appearance in Nob & Nobility as an evil French revolutionary who is “hung like a baby carrot and a couple of petits pois”.
Our special guest this time around is Tyler Adams, the brains behind the wonderful GoonPod podcast about the Goon Show and classic comedy in general. We talk about podcast envy and sacred cows among Blackadder fandom. Tyler also shares his theory on why Blackadder Goes Forth is the Sgt Pepper of the Blackadder oeuvre – and why that might not be the high praise it might seem to be.
GoonPod can be found at the following link or wherever you get your podcast fix: https://pod.link/1569929507
Here is a link to the Lord Of Adders Black range of t-shirts sold on eBay by our friend Mike at Silly Tees, with £5 from each purchase going to Cancer Research UK – short link here:
https://shorturl.at/6H6Q8
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:
As always, you can find the Ronald Lacey Fans Twitter account at @RonaldLaceyFans
Thanks to the following communities 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
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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