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Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

Comedy, History

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

He’s the most famous composer there’s ever been; a child prodigy who produced more than 600 works in his short life. But was the ‘miracle of Vienna’ really anything more than just a manchild with a scat fetish? Kate Cheka, Stephen Bailey and Steve Bugeja must decide whether the ‘boy genius’ was actually more ‘boy evil’, via water sports and magic flutes.

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.0	Experience football like never before on BBC Sounds.
0:09.5	Join the Football Daily podcast to dive into the fallout
0:12.2	from an unforgettable Premier League season.
0:14.6	Wow, these fans have got absolutely wild.
0:18.1	And all the build-up to an incredible football summer to come.
0:21.0	Overhead cake!
0:22.2	That is sensational!
0:24.0	Expert Insights and the biggest names in the game on the Wayne Rooney show.
0:28.5	Just coming to the club was already a dream control, a privilege.
0:31.2	Never saw or dreamed about being the captain of the club.
0:33.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	Episodes of Evil Genius are released weekly, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:40.5	But if you can't wait, you can listen to the latest episode now, 28 days early, first on BBC Sounds.
0:47.8	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:55.0	Genius! Genius! Genius!
0:56.0	Genius!
0:57.0	Welcome to evil genius, I'm Russell Kane.
1:02.0	I'm big into recycling, which is why I'm currently sporting the teeth that Ryland rejected.
1:07.0	I've got a bit of a flag in my incisor.
1:10.0	Now, this isn't some highbrow history program
1:13.4	where men in cravats pontificate about the historical ramifications of the printing press.
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