Florence Nightingale

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Was Florence Nightingale a nursing pioneer, or a terror with a spreadsheet? Could the mother of modern nursing really have been a glorified doctor's receptionist from hell? Did her colonial attitudes towards race, and her perpetuation of the idea of 'women's jobs' hold us back as much as her healthcare revolution took us forward? Richard Herring, Ola Labib and Pierre Novellie join Russell Kane as they head to the frontline and find out.

Additional Material: Eve Delaney Researcher: Miriam O’Byrne Sound Editor: Kate Mac Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Executive Producer: Paul Smith

The Producer was Gwyn Rhys Davies. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:40.3	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:45.3	Genius! Genius!
0:46.3	Genius!
0:47.3	Greetings, clipboard warriors, hygiene, fetishists and people who think nurses should actually be paid a proper living wage.
0:55.4	I'm Russell Kane, like someone put caffeine in a monkey and sent it to a shit university.
1:00.3	And this is evil genius.
1:02.0	The show where we tug haloed heroes out of their portraits and ask,
1:06.0	were they compassionate visionaries or just weirdos with God complexes and almost inevitably a racist or a nonce.
1:12.6	Sadly.
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1:20.6	We're here to dissect harder than a battlefield amputation performed with a butter knife and a brandy chaser.
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