Evil Animals - Cats

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Domestic cats. They divide opinion. But are they really just gorgeous fluffballs or the devil incarnate?

Join comedian Russell Kane, zoologist, vet & author Jess French and comedian Jess Fostekew as they deep-dive cats.

Additional material by: Eve Delaney, Christina Riggs and Catherine Beazley. Researcher: Catherine Beazley Sound Recordist: Luke Nagy Digital Editor: Jerry Peal Executive Producer: Paul Smith Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy Producer: Simon Nicholls

Evil Animals with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means... A hatful of ha haas.
0:21.7	And energy. Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. You're about to listen to Evil Animals with me, Russell Kane, part of the Evil Genius podcast feed.
0:41.7	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.4	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes 28 days earlier than anywhere else, first on BBC Sounds.
0:53.4	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
1:00.0	Animals, animals, animals.
1:03.8	Chal! Or as my cat pronounces it, meow.
1:06.5	Bless, he's stuck on week one of duo lingua.
1:09.2	I'm Russell Kane, and this is evil animals. It's like Evil Genius, but we've ditched
1:13.7	the humans to discuss the ins and outs of our sometimes furrier friends. Hashtag Sphinx.
1:21.2	Every episode sees me display my informational arse feathers to a panel of gorgeous guests as we
1:27.2	dissect the inner workings
1:28.8	of nature's most divisive brutes and beasties like a chaotic school science experiment
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