Evil Animals - Maggots

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Maggots: should we love these sweet, misunderstood baby flies? Or dread these gruesome creepies?

Join comedian Russell Kane, entomologist Erica McAlister and comedian Ola Labib as they check out the remarkable world of maggots.

Additional material by: Eve Delaney, Christina Riggs and Catherine Beazley. Researcher: Catherine Beazley Sound Recordist: Gareth Wood 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.
0:06.1	Can I just say?
0:07.6	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:10.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:11.7	So nice.
0:12.5	There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds.
0:14.8	Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling.
0:17.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:20.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:21.6	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:27.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:31.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:32.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:35.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:40.6	Warning. This episode contains strong language.
0:47.2	Animals. Animals. Animals.
0:53.1	Greetings bin divers, fecal grazers, fecal grazers and corpse nibblers, aka my target audience in 2047.
1:00.9	I'm Russell Kane, the human manifestation of Scooby-Doo if he swapped weed for speed.
1:06.1	And this is evil animals, the nerdy, but secretly really hot once they take their glasses off, younger
1:11.7	sibling to evil genius. The show sees myself and a panel of self-respecting adults, character
1:17.7	assassinate all things bright and beautiful. Every creature, great and small. It's mind-boggling,
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