Evil Animals - Snakes

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Snakes. Are they slithering wronguns or super sleek legends?

Join comedian Russell Kane, zoologist Yussef Rafik and comedian Felicity Ward as they deep-dive snakes, looking specifically at the viper to decide if they are Evil or Genius.

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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.0	On BBC Sounds, savings, credit cards, car finance, reclaiming, insurance, investing, power of attorney, decision, indecision, analysis, paralysis.
0:15.8	Don't panic.
0:17.0	The Martin Lewis podcast is now twice weekly, helping you navigate our complex consumer world.
0:22.3	In one, I'll walk you through a big money-saving topic step by step.
0:26.3	Then in the new question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind.
0:31.0	Within reason.
0:31.7	The Martin Lewis podcast, now twice weekly.
0:34.4	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.6	Warning. This episode contains strong language.
0:44.4	Animals.
0:45.2	Animals.
0:48.9	First sentence I ever learned in German GCS.
0:52.2	I have a long snake.
0:55.8	And on today's episode,
0:57.3	That is true, yeah?
0:58.5	Let me wrap my coils around your ears
1:01.2	as we sink our teeth into the animal kingdom.
1:04.3	I'm Russell Kane,
1:05.2	and welcome to evil animals,
1:07.1	the eccentric vegan cousin
1:08.6	of your favourite BBC sounds show,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.