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* Munchausen Tells the Tale

BBC Radio 3
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It's a book of lies from beginning to end
Idris Parry , Emeritus Professor of German at Manchester
University, has been re-reading The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, first published in English anonymously in 1785, and he reflects on what it is about these stories, popular still, that we want to believe. (R)

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Idris Parry
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