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Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Marie Antoinette

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Parris, Daliso Chaponda and Catherine Bohart on the original drama queen. Was the Last Queen of France just a spoiled child with huge hair who didn't know any better?

Producer: Beth O’Dea Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Audio Bristol production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds.

0:02.0

Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.

0:06.0

But you sit down and be bright.

0:08.0

Celebrating women's voices.

0:10.0

You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.

0:14.8

This is juicy. No limits, no limits.

0:17.2

Celebrating women.

0:18.8

Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out

0:24.4

where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.

0:28.8

Lesson on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. Warning, this episode contains strong language.

0:39.0

Genius! Genius! Genius! given the prevalence of the ketogenic diet. I'm Russell Kane and this is

0:53.8

BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius, the show where we pay reverse homage to legends of the

0:58.8

past. We take an icon and after a furiously mostly funny, I hope guys debate, my council of comics must

1:06.2

advise me one way or the other, evil or genius. By the way, if you're into psychopathic monarchs, why not catch up on the Henry VIII episode?

1:21.0

And my god, dumped by text, he ghosted me, flirted with my mates. Try to cut your head off and change religion forever so he can smash his fifth cousin. Yeah. Makes Bundy look like a relationship counselor. Have a listen to that one. But in today's episode we're going to be

1:33.9

finding out about the last Queen of France, the queeniest queen ever, the biggest

1:39.2

fashionista with the most elaborate over-the-top hair and outfits ever seen still to this day.

1:44.8

Nope, it's not me from 2012.

1:46.9

It's Marie Antoinette, ultimate spoiled royal and a genuine icon for the ages. My high-class panel today is

1:54.8

Catherine Beauhart, Deliso Chuponda and Rachel Paris. Welcome guys.

1:58.9

Hi yeah. Hey hello. Now Catherine you're on a UK and Ireland tour this summer called again with feelings and Australian as well

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