Summary
From politics to religion, gangster films to espionage, Philip Dodd considers acts of betrayal, with theologian, Elaine Storkey, columnist Peter Hitchens, author Jenny McCartney and historian Owen Matthews.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Philip Dodd, and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast from BBC Radio 3. |
| 0:43.1 | The kind of guests we have on writers, artists, philosophers, historians and filmmakers, |
| 0:49.3 | and we challenge and cajole them, we even laugh with them, |
| 0:52.6 | and we talk about contemporary life, promiscuously, |
| 0:55.9 | how we got here and where we're going. In a moment or two, we'll be meeting some of them. |
| 1:00.8 | But before we do, please take a moment to listen to this. |
| 1:06.6 | Hello, just butting in. I'm Ellen and Rosamond Barakloff, and I'm here to tell you about time |
| 1:12.4 | travellers, the BBC Radio 3 podcast that's packed full of quirky stories from the corners |
| 1:18.0 | of history. If you'd like to know how a polar bear ended up catching its dinner in the Thames, |
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| 1:46.2 | It's an intimate and a wounding act, as common as rain, made more painful because it's visited on erstwhile friends. |
| 1:56.4 | It's also seemed an indelible feature of politics is the subject of the arts from Caravaggio |
| 2:02.1 | to Martin Scorsese, and Christianity makes no sense without it. Betrayal, the subject of |
| 2:09.5 | this episode of free-thinking. Later on we'll explore what betrayal means in the world of spies, |
| 2:15.8 | as biographies on espionage and traitors rain down on us. In the world of |
| 2:20.6 | the mafia, as seen in the films of Martin Scorsese, who says Judas haunts his imagination. And of course |
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