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Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Marlene Dietrich

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Marlene Dietrich was undoubtedly an icon - with an impressive string of films, lovers and mic-drop quotes. Her work in the Second World War was inspiring but her relationship with her husband and daughter reveal a much darker side to the life of the dazzling movie star. Amy Gledhill, Ria Lina and Alasdair Beckett-King decide - diva or devil?

Producer: Sasha Bobak Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray, host of The Naked Week, a brand new comedy where you'll

0:06.5

probably find this kind of thing.

0:08.2

Nigel Farage, got into a punch-up with a wumble.

0:10.1

On the moon.

0:10.8

Don't be ridiculous, Duncan, there are no wumbles on the moon.

0:13.4

And this sort of thing.

0:14.6

You, Les, it's made Sadiq Khan, London's most unpopular mayor since Dick Whittington

0:18.7

charged his cat 12 quid to enter its own litter tray.

0:22.6

So join me as we go behind the headlines with unexpected guests and much satirical silliness.

0:27.6

The Naked Week. Listen on BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts.

0:35.6

Warning, this episode contains strong language. Ah, yeah, podcasts. Warning, this episode contains strong language.

0:42.2

Genius.

0:43.0

Genius.

0:43.5

Genius.

0:46.2

Welcome to BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius.

0:49.0

I'm Russell Kane.

0:49.7

If you're listening to this in the future, I was a cis-normative, privileged pro-meet male

0:53.9

who performed

0:54.9

an extinct art form called stand-up comedy. The idea was to let out tirades of hate speech,

0:59.9

thinly disguised as things that were called jokes, that's spelled with a jep. While the non-AI

1:04.7

modified humans in the audience let out noises from their throats, which was called laughter,

1:09.0

an animal function which was replaced by transmitting the word lull in 2157 from your muskphon.

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