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Warning, this episode contains strong language.

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Genius! Genius! Genius!

Welcome to Evil Genius from BBC Radio 4 I'm its tyrannical host, and in 100 years time

I too will be cancelled and vilified for stuff like eating murdered tuna and keeping

Burmese cats as prisoners that got a cat flap but still.

Today, however, allow us to continue with the idiotic idea that our moral compasses are

fixed and matured, and welcome you to Evil Genius where we take famous humans who are

all proper-dedded, no chance of life, and then try to work out whether they were geniuses

after all. Spoiler alert, every person born turns out to be a sod bastard wanker in

some way.

You can forget when we forged gangster links to Frank Sinatra, or when champion of women's

rights and family planning, Mary Stopes, turned out to be a weird eugenicist who thought

that people with short-sightedness should be sterilised. That actually happened. Still

not recovered from that. She just didn't want poor people to breed.

You had nothing to do with birth control.

Anyway, the idea is simple. I'm joined by fierce and funny friends whom I hit with fact-bombs,

and make them vote for these idols one way or the other. Evil or genius.

And today's subject is one of Britain's most famous serial killer- I mean monarchs.

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