Evil Animals - Mosquitoes
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
BBC
4.4 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Russell Kane lifts the lid on mosquitoes and asks... are they buzz kills or buzz buddies?
Helping Russell decide whether mosquitoes are evil or genius are Dr. Erica McAlister – Principal Curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum and comedian Desiree Burch.
Additional material by: Eve Delaney, Ruth Huskisson & Christina Riggs
Researcher: Catherine Beazley Sound Recordist: Gareth Wood Digital Editor: Jerry Peal Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy Executive Producer: Paul Smith 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. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chamber. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.4 | You're about to listen to Evil Animals with me, Russell Kane, part of the Evil Genius podcast feed. |
| 0:43.0 | Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:46.8 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes 28 days earlier than anywhere else, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:54.8 | Warning, this episode contains strong language. |
| 1:01.7 | Animals. Animals. |
| 1:05.3 | Bite me. I'm Russell Kane. |
| 1:07.5 | And if you're listening to this in the future, |
| 1:09.5 | can you believe I was allowed to work for as long as I did? |
| 1:12.6 | Anyway, 2030s, enough about that. There are only two things that can get me jumping on my bed, |
| 1:18.9 | semi-nude, and whipping my pants around my head with a buzzing noise in my ear. One of them has been |
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