BBC Radio 4

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Comedy EN ↓ 176 episodes

It’s good, bad, ugly - and very very funny. Changing the way we see heroes and villains in history.

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BBC Radio 4

Category

Comedy

Podcast website

www.bbc.co.uk

Latest episode

Oct 28, 2026

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Episodes

Series 2: Walt Disney 07.02.2019

Fern Brady, Tiff Stevenson and Kae Kurd have an animated chat, about animator Walt Disney

Series 2: Enid Blyton 31.01.2019

Danielle Ward, Rachel Fairburn & Danny McLoughlin have a jolly old time with Enid Blyton

Series 2: Joan Crawford 24.01.2019

Amy Annette, Marcus Bronzy and Inel Tomlinson find the upsides in having an arch-nemesis

Series 2: Bill Hicks 19.01.2019

Tiff Stevenson, Fern Brady and Kae Kurd weigh up the comedian Bill Hicks

Series 2: Coco Chanel 10.01.2019

Elf Lyons, Ken Cheng and Sadie Harrison debate Coco Chanel and lying about your age.

Series 2: Frank Sinatra 03.01.2019

Lou Sanders, Johnny Cochrane and Tom Lucy bandy words about singing and civil rights. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 2: Joan Rivers 27.12.2018

Desiree Burch, Catherine Bohart and Alan Carr chat being outrageous and having no limits. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 2: Father Christmas 21.12.2018

Sindhu Vee, Grainne Maguire and Dane Baptiste mull over the magic of Santa himself.

Series 2: Charles Dickens 13.12.2018

Amy Annette, Marcus Bronzy and Inel Tomlinson read up on author Charles Dickens

Series 2: Darth Vader 06.12.2018

James Acaster, Jayde Adams and Romesh Ranganathan ask if he's just misunderstood. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 2: Pablo Escobar 29.11.2018

Danielle Ward, Rachel Fairburn and Danny McLoughlin weigh up drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Series 2: Sid Vicious at Latitude Festival 22.11.2018

Grainne Maguire, Jen Brister and Shappi Khorsandi talk about what comedy owes to punk. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 2: JFK 15.11.2018

Elf Lyons, Ken Cheng and Sadie Harrison poke around JFK: John F. Kennedy, US President.

Series 2: Tupac Shakur 07.11.2018

Romesh Ranganathan, James Acaster and Jayde Adams judge hip hop artist Tupac Shakur. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 2: Mother Teresa 01.11.2018

Alan Carr, Desiree Burch and Catherine Bohart talk about goodness, badness and bin babies. Producer Beth O'Dea

Series 1: Margaret Thatcher 09.05.2018

Russell and his panellists Grainne Maguire, Sindhu Vee and Omar Hamdi weigh up the Iron Lady. It's a hard hitting political debate involving hairspray, Judi Dench and ninjas.

Series 1: Steve Jobs 02.05.2018

Russell and his panelists Simon Evans, Bec Hill and Stephen Bailey try and decide whether Steve Jobs is evil or a genius. Without him this podcast may not have existed. Will that affect their decision?

Series 1: Hugh Hefner 25.04.2018

Russell Kane gets into his dressing gown to talk about Hugh Hefner while his panel Stephen Bailey, Bec Hill and Simon Evans look the other way.

Series 1: Gandhi 18.04.2018

Surely not Gandhi? Russell Kane reveals there might be an evil side to the father of modern India. With panelists Grainne Maguire, Sindhu Vee and Omar Hamdi.

Series 1: Roald Dahl 11.04.2018

Will Russell Kane’s revelations about Roald Dahl stop you from reading The BFG ever again? Panellists Judi Love, Kelly Convey and Imran Yusuf have their childhood memories tainted forever.

Series 1: Albert Einstein 04.04.2018

Kindly favourite-uncle genius with comedy hair, or controlling egomanic? Russell Kane attempts to explain the theory of relativity to Caz Frear, Sean McLoughlin and Rachel Parris.

Series 1: Richard Pryor 28.03.2018

Richard Pryor may be the comedian’s comedian, but there is plenty in his life story that isn’t so funny. Russell Kane discusses whether his genius outweighs his evil, with panellists Judi Love, Kelly Convey and Imran Yusuf.

Series 1: Evelyn Waugh 21.03.2018

Writing Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.

Series 1: Marie Stopes 14.03.2018

Russell Kane asks whether birth control pioneer Marie Stopes had a more sinister motive.. with Dane Baptiste, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Iszi Lawrence.

Series 1: John Lennon 07.03.2018

Peace, love and an intolerance of laughter. Was the music worth it all? Depends who you ask. With Rachel Parris, Caz Frear and Sean McLoughlin.

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