Billie Holiday

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Duker, Daliso Chaponda and Kemah Bob riff over jazz singer Billie Holiday, who sang Strange Fruit.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Here, that podcast contains swearing and adult content.
0:08.0	Ah!
0:09.2	Genius!
0:12.0	Genius! Genius!
0:14.3	Hello, I'm Russell Kane, I'm off my tits, but only on caffeine.
0:18.9	I can't sing and I'm not a black woman.
0:21.3	Other than that, me and today's subject, virtually the same.
0:24.4	I think I'm not American either and I don't like jazz.
0:27.0	I don't really like jazz.
0:28.1	Yes, this is BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius, the place where we manage to whisk laughter into a bowl of drugs,
0:35.6	war, oppression and hate and bake ourselves a cake of ruined reputations while chuckling.
0:43.1	The idea is simple but awful.
0:45.9	Take amazing people from history, people you might worship, then reveal things about them,
0:51.2	dirty, awful things that toy with your mind like a teenage boy with a banjo string.
0:57.1	Catch up on our Freddie Mercury episode, pioneering rock musician or selfish hedonist with no thought for others.
1:04.6	Charlie Chaplin, friendly clown with a twirly stick or dirty old man with a twirly willy.
1:10.8	Have a listen, decide for yourself.
1:13.1	At the end of each episode, my panel of fierce, funny friends must, after having their minds stretched like an Essex face,
1:21.5	they must vote one way or the other.
1:24.0	Evil!
1:25.2	Or genius.
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