Roald Dahl

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Will Russell Kane’s revelations about Roald Dahl stop you from reading The BFG ever again? Panellists Judi Love, Kelly Convey and Imran Yusuf have their childhood memories tainted forever.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:07.5	Genius. Genius.
0:09.2	This is Evil Genius.
0:10.6	The BBC podcast, when we take amazing people from the past
0:13.5	and expose their waltz.
0:15.1	Sometimes literally, we ask,
0:17.3	do their brilliant bits outweigh their awful bits?
0:20.0	Imagine your favourite author who turns out to be an animal torturer
0:23.6	or a painter who likes children a little bit too much.
0:27.2	Sometimes we'll even be reversing the formula
0:29.2	and revealing nice things about people you thought were beasts.
0:32.8	Could you still revere your idol
0:35.0	once you know the filthy wrongness of their inner evil sanctums?
0:39.6	So let's find out if this episode's subject was more evil
0:44.8	than genius.
0:49.7	Career highlight.
0:51.6	No ambiguity, please. By the end of the debate,
0:53.5	the subject will be shamelessly deemed one or the other
0:55.8	and helping me decide.
0:57.2	We have stand-up star Kelly Convey just don't heckle her.
1:00.8	Or she will take you down.
1:02.8	We also have stand-up star comedy star online,
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