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Once upon a time in a studio deep deep in the BBC, Luke, I am your father.

That wasn't Star Wars, that was my uncle Darren breaking the news to my cousin Luke

that he was his real dad. And the noise in the background was my nan on eventlin.

Tell him Darren. Yes, this week on Evil Genius something different.

Not a person from Earth, but a complicated Star Wars villain, Darth Vader.

In Evil Genius we take iconic characters from history and assassinate them with the dirty wrongness of shame.

Einstein for example, horrible to women, he equaled bastard squared, Sid Vicious, Stabby and talentless.

Margaret Thatcher turned out to be alright. And she invented ice cream. That's my bearch.

It meant me.

If you don't put an echo in that, I will kill you.

At the end of the show, my panel of three, must in a simplistic and vomitingly reductive way,

vote one way or the other, Evil or Genius. And this week we're turning it on its helmeted head,

Darth Vader. Maybe he's actually good. Maybe he's actually a genius.

And my panel are, Commander of several planets, all of which he'll probably be touring soon.

Comic overlord and Sith Commander, Ramesh Ranganathan.

A comedian so beloved of me and Star Wars fans that simply being near his Jedi mind can cause a nerd gasm.

Grandmoth James A. Castor. And a stand up performer whose light speed wit has seen her enter the comic atmosphere at such speed she almost broke up on entry.

Jedi Commander Jade Adams.

Boom.

Welcome everyone.

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