Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series

Ben Elton · Richard Curtis

Jul 2012 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Rik Mayall, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnery, and Tony Robinson

About this audiobook

The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder series, plus over three hours of specials and extras

Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his two imbecilic sidekicks, Lord Percy and Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats. With cunning plans and cutting comedy, listen as the Blackadder dynasty plot their way through history...

The Black Adder – Set in the Middle Ages, this iconic first series follows the fictitious reign of King Richard IV, played by Brian Blessed, through the experiences of his unfavoured second son Prince Edmund “The Black Adder”

Blackadder II - The Blackadder genes resurface in Elizabethan England for more historical comedy

Blackadder the Third - Blackadder turns up as butler to the Prince Regent in the late 18th Century

Blackadder Goes Forth – The scheming Blackadder is dropped into the trenches during the First World War

Also included in this collection are eight Blackadder TV and radio specials: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, Blackadder: Woman’s Hour Invasion, The Shakespeare Sketch, Blackadder: Back and Forth, Blackadder: The Army Years, Blackadder: I Have a Cunning Plan and the Blackadder instalment of the TV series Britain's Best Sitcom.

Written by film and TV royalty Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson, and starring comedy giants Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, and Rik Mayall, this is history at its grittiest and funniest.

Track Listing:

• Chapters 1-6: The Black Adder
• Chapters 7-12: Blackadder II
• Chapters 13-18: Blackadder the Third
• Chapters 19-24: Blackadder Goes Forth
• Chapter 25: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
• Chapter 26: The Cavalier Years
• Chapter 27: Woman’s Hour Invasion
• Chapter 28: The Shakespeare Sketch
• Chapter 29: Back and Forth
• Chapter 30: The Army Years (Royal Variety Performance)
• Chapter 31: I Have a Cunning Plan
• Chapter 32: Britain's Best Sitcom

Cast and credits
Written by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson

Edmund Blackadder - Rowan Atkinson
S. Baldrick - Tony Robinson
Melchett - Stephen Fry
Lord Percy Percy – Tim McInnerny
George – Hugh Laurie
Queen Elizabeth I / Various – Miranda Richardson

Including standout performances by Rik Mayall, Miriam Margolyes, Patsy Byrne, Brian Blessed, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Gabrielle Glaister, Elspet Gray, Robert East, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Bill Wallis, Stephen Frost, Mark Arden, Lee Cornes, Warren Clarke, Philip Pope, Barbara Miller, David Nunn, Denis Lill, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Stephen Frost, Chris Barrie, Jeremy Hardy and Ben Elton.


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About the author

Richard Curtis (Author)
Richard Curtis is a British screenwriter, actor, film director and music producer. Among his screenwriting credits are Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, whilst for television he created and wrote Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. He created the first Black Adder series with Rowan Atkinson, before going on to write subsequent series with Ben Elton.

Ben Elton (Author)
Ben Elton is a British comedian, author, playwright and director. His early career was in stand-up comedy, as well as writing for TV series including The Young Ones. He met Richard Curtis, and together they co-wrote the second and subsequent series of Blackadder. Ben Elton went on to success as a novelist and stage writer.