Mary Tudor

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

Comedy, History

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

‘Bloody Mary’ is most famous for burning hundreds of people at the stake for their religious beliefs. Sounding pretty evil so far. But she defied all of the odds against her to become queen, fight for what she believed in, and overcome a toxic childhood. Ria Lina, Pierre Novellie and Catherine Bohart must weigh up whether she was more evil or genius.

Additional material: Eve Delaney and Christina Riggs Researcher: Miriam O’Byrne Sound Editor: Kate Mac Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy Executive Producer: Paul Smith

The producer was Sasha Bobak. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:35.8	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:42.4	Genius.
0:43.0	Genius.
0:43.7	Genius.
0:45.8	Welcome to evil genius.
0:47.5	I'm Russell Kane.
0:48.5	Proof that Henry the 8th isn't the only one who's left a trail of emotional carnage
0:52.4	and toxic relationships behind him.
0:54.3	But at least I'm not a redhead.
0:56.0	Oh shit, two of my panels have got red hair.
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