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?

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

Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

On tonight's program, free thought, free trade, free people.

Is the increasingly globalised economy producing a new world of virtue or a new world of vice?

We'll offer a philosophical audit.

And we'll look back to the moment when it became possible to ask questions like this.

In mercantilist 18th century England, where some of the wealth of our nation, dutifully recorded on ledgers and balance sheets,

also had hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions, though that didn't affect its insurance value.

What is the importance of the song? Why is the case before Papa's court, the Supreme Court?

Well, it is a ship.

I am aware of that.

It is a human cargo ship.

Oh.

It lost most of its slaves before arriving at its destination.

Drowned by the crew on the captain's orders.

But why?

Sam Reid as the lawyer John Davinier and Gugu and Bartha Roar in the title role of Bell,

the new British film about an 18th century woman of property who discovers that her mother

was one of her family's goods and chattels. You'll hear from its director, Amma Asante,

and from the anthropologist Kit Davis, who's seen it for us. Before we consider slavery,

though, let's examine a world structured by its

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