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Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Rasputin

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How did an illiterate peasant from Siberia find himself dining with an Emperor? Did Rasputin really have magical healing powers or was he a cunning fraud? And what exactly earned him his shocking nickname?

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

If you love your pop, this is right up your street.

0:04.7

Pop top 10 with Scott and Rylen.

0:08.0

We've picked some of the most hotly contested questions of all time

0:11.8

and decided to settle them once and for all with the help of some

0:14.9

special guests. We're taking it very seriously. I can't let things like that slide on this show.

0:20.3

Now come on! What are you on about?

0:22.8

Don't put words into my mouth.

0:24.0

I won darling you're spat and them yourself.

0:26.0

Search pop top 10 to listen on BBC sounds.

0:30.0

You're about to listen to the latest series of Evil Genius with Russell Kane.

0:35.2

Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.0

But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes 28 days earlier than anywhere else first on BBC Sounds.

0:47.0

BBC Sounds.

0:48.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.

0:52.0

Warning, this episode contains strong language.

0:54.0

Genius!

0:58.0

genius!

1:00.0

Genius!

1:01.0

Well mesmerically shag me in a Russian palace. If it isn't another edition of BBC Radio

1:07.2

for's Evil Genius with your host, Rassal Canikoff. Evil Genius is the show packed with truths more uncomfortable than the silence which

1:15.2

follows you accidentally saying, I love you instead of goodbye to your boss because you were

1:19.3

knackered. The process is simpler than my cousin Leon and bear in mind he held the record for

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