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"Crispin Harris - Friar Tuck"
"Miranda Richardson - Lady Elizabeth / Queen Elizabeth"
"Tim McInnerny - Archdeacon Darling / Duc de Darling / Duke of Darling"
"Hugh Laurie - Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Consul Georgius"
"Stephen Fry - Bishop Melchett / Melchett / General Flavius Melchius / The Duke of Wellington"
"Rik Mayall - Robin Hood"
"Colin Firth - William Shakespeare"
"Kate Moss - Maid Marian / Queen Marian of Sherwood"
"Simon Russell Beale - Napoleon"
"Jennie Bond - Royal Reporter"
"Miranda Richardson - Queen Elizabeth I"
"Stephen Fry - Lord Melchett"
"Patsy Byrne - Nursie"
"Tony Aitken - Minstrel"
"Rik Mayall - Lord Flashheart"
"Hugh Laurie - Prince Ludwig"
"Tom Baker - Capt. Rum"
"Rowan Atkinson - Edmund Blackadder, Esq"
"Hugh Laurie - The Prince Regent"
"Helen Atkinson-Wood - Mrs. Miggins"
"Stephen Fry - Duke of Wellington"
"Tim McInnerny - The Scarlet Pimpernel"
"Miranda Richardson - Amy Harwood"
"Rowan Atkinson - Captain Edmund Blackadder"
"Tony Robinson - Private Baldrick"
"Hugh Laurie - Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh"
"Stephen Fry - General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett"
"Tim McInnerny - Captain Kevin Darling"
"Miranda Richardson - Nurse Mary"
"Rik Mayall - Lord Flasheart"
"Rowan Atkinson - Sir Edmund Blackadder"
"Stephen Fry - King Charles I"
"Rowan Atkinson - Ebenezer Blackadder / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Grand Admiral Blackadder"
"Tony Robinson - Baldrick / Baldrick / Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrick"
"Miranda Richardson - Queen Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX"
"Stephen Fry - Lord Melchett / Lord Frondo"
"Hugh Laurie - George, the Prince Regent / Lord Pigmot"
"Robbie Coltrane - Spirit of Christmas"
"Miriam Margolyes - Queen Victoria"
"Jim Broadbent - Prince Albert"
"Rowan Atkinson - Lord Edmund Blackadder / King Edmund III / Centurion Blackaddicus"
"Tony Robinson - Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldricus"
"Elspet Gray - The Queen"
"Tim McInnerny - Percy"
"Patrick Allen - Narrator"
"Brian Blessed - King Richard IV"
"Tony Robinson - Baldrick"
"Robert East - Prince Harry, Prince of Wales"
"Rowan Atkinson - Lord Edmund Blackadder"
"Tim McInnerny - Lord Percy"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.