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Podcast: Doom Generation
Episode: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988): "That sounds nasty, is it contagious?"
Description: We're traveling back to the Age of Reason and since everything is gonna be Turkish this year, the Turkish army is at the gates, trying to sack the city as a troop of actors led by Harry Salt (Bill Paterson) & daughter Sally (Sarah Polley) do their best to maintain curtain calls amongst the destruction. Enter the REAL Baron (John Neville) to tell his REAL story of his band of super men (Eric Idle, Jack Purvis, Charles McKeown, Dennis Winston) and his travels both terrestrial and extra to meet Gods, Goddesses and the King of Everything (Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman...