Marilyn Monroe

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Was Marilyn Monroe a genius who beat the system to become a star? Or was she a career driven narcissist who perpetuated the sexism of old Hollywood? And does she have a case to answer for the toxic beauty standards with still live with today. Hannah Platt, Janine Harouni and Tony Hawks join Russell Kane to ask - if we can't handle her at her most evil, then do we deserve her at her most genius?.

Additional Material: Eve Delaney Researcher: Christina Riggs Sound Editor: Kate Mac Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Executive Producer: Paul Smith

The Producer was Gwyn Rhys Davies. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org-slash fringe.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.9	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:44.5	Genius.
0:45.2	Genius.
0:45.9	Genius.
0:48.0	Greetings, scandal snuffers, icon picklers and people still pretending they're just like vintage.
0:56.0	I'm Russell Kane and this is Evil Genius, the BBC's classiest moral autopsy,
1:00.8	where we yank open the celebrity coffin and have a thorough prod at the gamey corpses
1:05.1	of wrongens, predators and good old-fashioned wankers.
1:09.3	Apart from my tragically covered temples, we don't do grey areas here.
1:14.0	We do guilt, judgment and the kind of verdicts that make a radio four producer cry into
1:19.3	his flat white.
1:20.4	Yes, of course it's vegan.
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