Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast
Episode 6: Pitt The Slightly Older (Part 2)
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.
Our sixth episode includes the second part of our interview with that splendid acting fellow, Simon Osborne, who played the scheming adolescent Pitt The Younger in the opening episode of Blackadder The Third.
This time around, our Scene Stealer is Ade Edmondson as the Red Baron, the gentleman flyer with a taste for bad puns and toilet humour. We also look at the other roles that Ade has played during his long and fulfilling career and at his longstanding double act with the much-missed Rik Mayall.
Speaking of toilet humour, Viz magazine gets a mention in our trivia question and we discover that there is not one but two links between Blackadder and The Rocky Horror Picture Show …
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You can find Simon Osborne on Twitter at @SimonOsbornePTY
Check out his website and blog at:
https://www.historypitt.co.uk/
https://historypitt.wordpress.com/
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/
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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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