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Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Margaret Thatcher

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Russell and his panellists Grainne Maguire, Sindhu Vee and Omar Hamdi weigh up the Iron Lady. It's a hard hitting political debate involving hairspray, Judi Dench and ninjas.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:07.5

Genius. Genius.

0:09.2

Hello, this is Evil Genius, a BBC podcast where we grab legendary people from the past and ask

0:14.2

were they actually total scumbags. Worship figures will turn out to be rogues,

0:19.0

saints, sometimes bang out of order. Maybe there's lovely stuff about a person you thought was awful.

0:25.4

Can you still idolise someone once we get a look at their grubby stains?

0:29.8

Were they more evil or genius?

0:37.8

That's what we're going to be deciding today and I have an awesome panel to help me along.

0:41.5

And I've got Gronjum and Gwire, welcome. Stand up to hering stand up TV radio switch on

0:47.1

your finder. Omar Hamdi supported me on tour. Sorry, not allowed to say that anymore,

0:51.6

that's an oppressive term. He was a stage co-worker and a my gender neutral tour.

0:57.4

In a safe space, no one has the stage. You'll see him cropping up on the BBC, BBC Wales,

1:01.4

all over the place and of course, Sinduvi. Stand up for media, TV, radio. You're here on radio for

1:07.2

all over the place. Guys, give me something evil or genius about yourself. Anything you're genius

1:13.2

act. Can you make a path lower? Are you good at a souffle? I make extraordinary banana bread.

1:19.8

Extraordinary. I mean, it's like the banana bread can be so soggy. No, but it's not. It is full of

1:24.2

bananas and it's it's just the best banana bread you've ever eaten. So I don't make banana bread.

1:31.0

I make the best banana bread anyone's ever eaten. That's your genius. Of course, your evil is

1:35.7

you once covered over a murder. So that for me. Using bananas. Yeah, of course. But buried in banana

1:41.9

bread. Officer, he slipped on the peel. That's the death every comedian would choose.

1:48.8

Omar, anything evil or genius you can do. My genius move is I've realized that when you get a

1:54.0

takeaway coffee cup and it spills on you sometimes sometimes it spills if the fold in the cup is

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