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

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Twitter: @LordAddersBlack

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Instagram: lord_of_adders_black 

e-mail: [email protected] 

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 ([email protected]).  

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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