Christopher Columbus

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sara Barron, Helen Bauer and Darren Harriott on the man who's credited with finding North America. But never actually got there. And firmly believed the world to be breast-shaped. Producer: Beth O’Dea Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Audio Bristol production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Warning! This episode contains strong language.
0:07.7	LAUGHTER
0:10.1	GENIUS
0:12.3	Genius! Genius!
0:14.1	Welcome to BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius, a think tank for famous people's reputations.
0:21.7	Spoiler alert, most high-profile people in history were actually twats.
0:26.0	We're all potential twats.
0:27.5	Everyone listening to this has some degree of twatness waiting to come out with even a
0:31.0	modicum of fame.
0:32.5	With absolute power comes absolute bell-end almost every time.
0:37.2	I have in the studio three funny folks who will be forced to look at uncomfortable truths
0:42.8	about today's great subject then be forced to vote with format creating banality one
0:48.4	way or the other.
0:49.7	Evil.
0:50.7	LAUGHTER
0:51.7	GENIUS
0:52.7	Genius!
0:54.9	And today we're exploring Christopher Columbus, the man who's credited with discovering America.
1:05.5	And it's not even Columbus Day which is a national holiday in some countries and a federal
1:09.4	holiday in the US.
1:11.0	It officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October
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