Helen of Troy
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
BBC
4.4 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
She’s the face that launched a thousand ships - but is Helen of Troy anything more than just a pick-me girl with an army of cucks? Lily Phillips, Ola Labib and Edd Hedges consider bestiality, incest, and Power Rangers, to try and assess whether the hottest woman in history leaves them cold.
Additional material: Miriam O’Byrne, Angela Channell and Katie Sayer Researcher: Miriam O’Byrne Recording Engineer: Gareth Wood Sound Editor: Kate Mac Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy Executive Producer: Paul Smith
The producer was Katie Sayer. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:09.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:12.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:17.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:28.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:31.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:35.3 | The Gift. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.4 | Episodes of Evil Genius are released weekly, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
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| 0:48.6 | First, on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:51.1 | Warning, this episode contains strong language. |
| 0:57.6 | Genius! Genius! Genius! |
| 1:02.0 | Hello, I'm Russell Kane. Imagine, Madam to Swords left a waxwork for Ronaldo slightly too |
| 1:07.8 | close to a hot light bulb. And not even the hot Ronaldo, but the weird Brazilian one with the buck teeth from the naughty. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome to Evil Genius, the show that takes famous figures from history and holds up their filthiest laundry for everyone to see and asks, is that a skid mark or was he just a bit of a fascist? |
| 1:23.6 | To be honest, it's often both. And although for balance, I have to say, my lefty friends tend to have more skitties due to their vegan diets and the friction of performative marching. |
| 1:33.9 | We're not some highbrow poetry programme where we extemporise about the use of Scott's dialect in the collective works of Robbie Burns. |
| 1:41.6 | This isn't so much to a mouse as the kids film Ratatoui, except the |
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