Inside this conventionally structured biopic resides an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man. William Wilberforce was the parliamentary spokesman for a group of radicalised young Evangelists (and Quakers), who despised the money politics and corruption of late 18th Century UK politics and who fought for many reformist policies, the most notable of which was the one this film annotates, the abolition of slavery, a process that took years of political skulduggery and the slow passage of find out more...
In "Sense And Senility" Blackadder thinks the Prince Regent should make a 'leftist' speech; in "Amy And Amiability" our noble butler attempts to solve his master's financial problems; in "Duel And Duality" the Prince Regent is challenged to a duel; in "Dish And Dishonesty" Blackadder's attempts to interfere in the democratic process backfire; in "Ink And Incapability" a dictionary is written; and in "Nob and Nobility" Blackadder doesn't like the French very much. Brilliant/wicked/see.
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