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Warning! This episode contains strong language.

LAUGHTER

Genius! Genius!

Welcome to BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius,

the chart-topping award-nominated show that takes heroes and villains deceased

and asks whether they were in fact shits and bellens.

Or indeed, well some of the bellens, actually all right.

Just listen to some of the previous episodes, Pablo Escobar, for example,

mass-merdering co-kegaard who could dice in a line off a basin from 30 metres.

Yes, but also a charitable humanitarian who did a lot for his community.

Or if you prefer your heroes ruined but still daily snorting more

Colombian marching powder than the whole of Essex in a weekend,

I direct you to our Diego Maradona episode.

You'll need one hand to access that one.

Well, today it really is rocket science as we are looking at a major case of

projectile dysfunction in Varna Fonbrone, the rocket scientist behind the Apollo missions.

I have a panel of three funny foodcares and by the end of this flight

they must decide one way or another whether the rocket scientist was evil

or genius.

And I'm over the moon to announce that we are back of the next.

Joined by Sarah Callahan, comedian and poet who's got a show at the Soho Theatre in July.

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