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?

It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music

when it's out of ice cream.

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Hello, I'm Shahid Abari, and welcome to the Arts and Ideas podcast for BBC Radio 3.

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In this program we have, in the words of Naina's anti-war protest song, 99 Red Balloons,

orders to identify, to clarify and classify.

Archives, we imagine, are orderly things filed in crates and boxes,

but our guests today have been dusting them off, prising them open,

and inventing new archives as part of the Being Human Festival,

which is currently showcasing academic research at venues all over the UK.

Shada, it's a really good time to be exploring archives.

They've always struck me as sort of autumnal things.

They're melancholy and ghostly.

They're definitely cold, Lawrence, usually because they're temperature control.

But yes, they do have a spooky, slightly sepulchral quality sometimes.

Well, in this program we'll be looking at how archives can come to life,

singing protests,

speaking from both sides of a conflict and giving voices to marginalise communities.

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