Contains strong language.

Evil Genius with Russell Kane
Mozart
6 May 2026
38 minutes
Available for over a year
He’s the most famous composer there’s ever been; a child prodigy who produced more than 600 works in his short life. But was the ‘miracle of Vienna’ really anything more than just a manchild with a scat fetish? Kate Cheka, Stephen Bailey and Steve Bugeja must decide whether the ‘boy genius’ was actually more ‘boy evil’, via water sports and magic flutes.
Additional material: Miriam O’Byrne and Katie Sayer
Researcher: Miriam O’Byrne
Recording Engineer: Dom Boucher
Sound Editor: Kate Mac
Production Coordinator: Liz Tuohy
Executive Producer: Paul Smith
The producer was Katie Sayer. Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds.
