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Genius! Genius!

Hello, welcome to Evil Genius, the BBC podcast where we take beloved figures from history

and disfigure their rep with juicy wrongness and moral order.

In the episode so far, many were revealed as unsightly, with exposed, rolled doll as a

mean, twit, Einstein as a pervy cheat, and Mary Stopes turned out to be about as lovely

as Ebola.

Catch up on other episodes if you want your heroes to all turn out to be bellens.

But onto today, Joan Crawford, undoubtedly one of the screen goddesses of the previous

century. Today's subject was the golden girl of Hollywood, star of the silver screen

and television, the seductress with incredible eyebrows, but was she a bit of a girl bastard.

By the end of today's fact orgy, my panel will have to clean themselves up of dirty information

and then vote one way or the other, was Joan Crawford more evil than genius.

On Friday, I'm joined by my panel of three, Inell Tomlinson, TV personality standup comedian,

is known for being one half of Johnny and Inell. Well known on kids TV for this CBBC comedy

show, the Johnny and Inell show, what's that?

We did two series of it, it was a fantastic fun. It's a sketch show.

I'm also joined by Amy Annette, one of the first people to rise to prominence with two

first names, is that ever surname, is that true?

Michael Owen? Oh yeah, shit.

Just off top of my head.

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