Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast

Episode 25: “Look Behind You, Mr Caesar!”

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 this episode’s Major Star segment, we will be looking at Hugh Laurie’s thick-as-a-whale-omelette Prince George in Blackadder The Third. And who better to discuss this with us than our old friend Simon Osborne who makes a welcome return to the fold to reminisce about working with Hugh and also recalls his favourite moments from the screen and rehearsal room.

We also take a nerdilicious look at how the first three series of Blackadder each brought things to a close and how these matched up against the glorious finale that was Blackadder Goes Forth.And while we’re at it, we touch upon the strange phenomenon* of Blackadder actors strutting their stuff in music videos by British female pop artists.

(*Kate Bush pun intended) Oh … and we've started a new poll asking Blackadder fans to rate the four series of Blackadder in order of fluffiness.

Simply click:

https://app.sli.do/event/qcMeAXNSL1yUshzRiJNMLB

You can find Simon Osborne’s website at www.historypitt.co.uk and his history blog at https://historypitt.wordpress.com/

Jem Roberts 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

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

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Bluesky: @lordofaddersblack.bsky.social

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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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