Francis Bacon

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

Comedy, History

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Francis Bacon was a pioneer in his field, whose deeply moving art sold for millions. But his private life reveals a coldness that will make it difficult for Jess Fostekew, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Eshaan Akbar to decide: evil or genius?

Additional material: Eve Delaney and Christina Riggs Researcher: Christina Riggs Sound Editor: Kate Mac Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy Executive Producer: Paul Smith

The producer was Sasha Bobak. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:35.8	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:42.4	Genius.
0:43.2	Genius.
0:43.7	Genius.
0:45.9	Hello and welcome to evil genius.
0:48.7	A show where we take information sourced from all over the first Google result we find
0:53.3	to decide whether an important figure
0:55.6	from history is evil, genius or a heady mix of the two. It can be hard to accept that our heroes,
1:01.7	like all of us, are flawed. There are a few exceptions, like finding out our parents are perfect
1:06.6	and all-knowing. Luckily, my daughter won't have to go through that during our supervised visits.
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