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, it's 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 at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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You must know that old poster, a picture of a scrambled egg with the slogan,

This is Your Mind on Drugs.

But how much do we really know about what drugs will do to our minds?

Can we move from scrambled eggs to the perfect omelette?

Well, today we'll explore the highs and lows of our minds and moods. What does it mean to be

depressed, or bipolar, or schizophrenic? Can we diagnose mental illness as we do a viral infection

or a common cold? or have we progressed very little

from the world of lobotomies and trampanning. But the debate is no longer just about illness.

Controversy rages around doping in sport, but now there's a real chance that we'll have the same

debates about the mind. A new generation of so-called smart drugs promises to sharpen our faculties

at the pop of a pill. But even if we could buy a little bit of that Einstein mojo in a bottle of

tablets, should we do it? Well, to debate the issues, I'm joined by Barbara Sahakian,

Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge University and co-author of the book Bad Moves About the Ethics of Smart Drugs,

Richard Bentel, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool,

an author of Doctoring the Mind, Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail,

and Claire Allen, who writes about mental health for the Guardian,

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