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\JHOEVER thought of putting Baron Munchausen into the Passing Parade was responsible for enlivening this programme with a dash of incredible frivolity. However much we may lift our eyebrows, nowadays, at the naiveté of readers who took the book seriously on its first appearance, we must admit that The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has in its sheer exuberant exaggeration a touch of undoubted genius. Its author seems to have been a charlatan comparable. to Cagliostro, ard in some remarkable way evidently foisted his spurious scientific claims for a time on an unsuspecting public. In this episode of Passing Parade we had the story of the Baron’s adventures in the belly of the whale, his trip to the moon, and of course the tale of the miraculous snowstorm which melted in a night, leaving the baron’s horse tethered to the church spire, which he had mistaken for a hitching-post. It occurred to me, while listening to this programme, that a series of wonderful episodes could be made (although not suited to this programme) by readings of those modern tales-of-the-long-bow, The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by Lord Dunsany.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 11
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