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Baldrick (left) and Blackadder (right) plotting and scheming in the Elizabethan age. Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy

Blackadder at 40: the difficult birth of a classic TV comedy

The first series had the characters’ roles all the wrong way round. Blackadder was dim, Baldrick clever and the queen was dull. Thankfully they got a second try.
Forget Blackadder, these are the guys Gove should be worrying about. Ian West/PA

Young Brits think WWI was futile, but don’t blame Blackadder

As Britain starts four years of commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Blackadder Goes Forth, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1989, has, bizarrely, taken centre stage. To rather less fanfare than…

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