Nostradamus

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Did he predict he'd be a subject on Evil Genius? Did he predict anything at all? Nostradamus is put under the microscope in this week's episode. Was he a mystic with an ability to peer into the future? Or a charlatan who used vague and cryptic language to hedge his bets? Richard Herring, Ola Labib and Pierre Novellie join Russell Kane to find out whether Michel De Nostredame was evil or 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	I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent.
0:06.0	In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy.
0:13.0	It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way.
0:19.0	How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond?
0:24.8	The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land.
0:27.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.0	Warning, this episode contains strong language.
0:41.6	Genius. Genius. Genius.
0:45.9	Greetings. Crystal ball polisher's, tarotablers and people who say Mercury's in retrograde
0:50.9	as an excuse for being a dick. This is Evil Genius, and I'm Russell Kane.
0:55.2	Evil Genius is the show where we drag history's most iconic figures into the moral spotlight
0:59.6	and ask, were they visionaries, or just robed wrong-ans with dangerous levels of confidence?
1:06.1	We're here to judge, harder than a match on hinge who reads your star sign before replying. And today's
1:12.0	subject, Renaissance physician, apothecary, astrologer, and the go-to name for anyone who thinks
1:17.9	a poem from 1555 predicted their cat's diarrhea. It's the Nostradar soul himself, Nostradamus, a man
1:25.8	whose cryptic quatrains still inspire feverish headlines,
1:30.0	doomsday cults, and Uncle Darren at Christmas Day to say,
1:33.0	Esauld is coming, weather control, jabs, mainstream media.
1:37.0	So, Nostradamus, prophet or poetic piss artist?
1:40.8	Let's shake the mystic snow globe and find out.
1:46.4	My celestial panel today is more dangerous than an A&E on a full moon. Richard Herring, comedy seer, podcasting legend, a man who spent
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