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The Classic Tales Podcast

Ep. 1008, The Sensational Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph Erich RaspeVINTAGE

The Classic Tales Podcast

B.J. Harrison

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4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The infamous Baron Munchausen is capable of everything and anything. But can he really climb a beanstalk all the way to the moon? Rudolph Erich Raspe, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this Vintage Episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   If you’d like to ensure the future of The Classic Tales, please visit the website, classictalesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options.   And if you can’t support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend. It all helps.   The following stories are taken from the larger volume: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. If you’d like me to do more stories from this volume, send me an email. We’ll see what we can do.   And now, “The Sensational Baron Munchausen”, by Rudolph Erich Raspe   Follow this link to become a monthly supporter:       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

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The infamous Baron Moonschowson is capable of everything and anything.

0:05.5

But can he really climb a beanstalk all the way to the moon?

0:09.6

Rudolf Eric Rasp, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

0:27.7

Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales podcast. Thank you for listening.

0:32.7

If you'd like to ensure the future of the Classic Tales, please visit the website,

0:39.5

Classic Talesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options. And if you can't support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an

0:45.3

episode with a friend. It all helps. The following stories are taken from the larger volume,

0:51.7

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Moonschosen. If you like to hear

0:55.8

more stories from this volume, send me an email and we'll see what we can do. And now,

1:01.5

the sensational Baron Moonschausen by Rudolf Eric Rasp. To the public.

1:14.4

Having heard for the first time that my adventures have been doubted and looked upon as jokes,

1:21.8

I feel bound to come forward and vindicate my character for veracity,

1:26.3

by paying three shillings of the mansion-house of this

1:29.5

great city for the affidavits here to appended. This I have been forced into, in regard of my own

1:36.7

honour, although I have retired for many years from public and private life, and I hope that

1:42.3

this, my last edition, will place me in a proper light

1:46.0

with my readers.

1:47.0

At the City of London, England.

1:51.0

We, the undersigned, as true believers in the prophet, do most solemnly affirm

1:57.0

that all the adventures of our friend Baron Munchausen, in whatever country they may lie,

2:03.0

are positive and simple facts. And, as we have been believed, whose adventures are tenfold

2:10.3

more wonderful, so do we hope all true believers will give him their full faith and credence.

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