Monty Python's Wonderful World of Sound - Episode 1

The Mighty Boosh meet Monty Python to tell the story of the classic Python comedy albums. After their first disappointing experience recording an album with the BBC in 1970, Monty Python signed to Charisma Records (home to Genesis and Viv Stanshall) and made a series of comedy albums that played with the medium, deliberately confused a lot of people and stand up brilliantly today. In the days before video recorders were commonplace, fans could only enjoy the aural side of Python on repeat. Sketches like Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge, and Lumberjack Song became regarded as classics on account of the LPs, not the TV show, and it was the albums that eventually broke the Pythons in America. In this two-part series, Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh talk to the Pythons themselves - Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam - about making the world's first three-sided LP; upsetting John Denver; giving farming in the Middle Ages its groove back; and raising the bar for what comedy albums could do. All from a garden shed in Finchley. The series also features interviews with Python songwriter Neil Innes, record producers Andre Jacquemin and Alan Bailey, and composers Dave Howman and John Du Prez.