Lord Lucan

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

Comedy, History

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It’s one of the most famous missing persons cases of all time, and has baffled detectives for over 50 years. So will Russell Kane and co fare any better at getting to the truth about Lord Lucan? Rachel Fairburn, Pierre Novellie and Slim help in the hunt for the missing aristocrat, via luxuriant moustaches, northern tea and soggy biscuit.

Additional material: Miriam O’Byrne and Katie Sayer Researcher: Miriam O’Byrne Recording Engineer: Dom Boucher 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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0:48.1	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:56.0	Genius! Genius! Genius! Genius! Genius!
0:57.0	Welcome to Evil Genius.
1:01.0	I'm Russell Kane, a man who wears Converse trainers unironically.
1:05.0	Just Google Midlife Crisis and you'll find me there doing topless shoots and handbrake turn career changes in a desperate attempt
1:11.9	to deny the fact that my ankle makes a weird clicking sound and my sperm count is now minus
1:16.6	400,000. Now this isn't a serious piece of investigative journalism where we interview vulnerable
1:22.5	witnesses in a darkened room and every other line is voiced by an out-of-work drama school grad channeling their
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