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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Before we start, a warning to the curious,

if you were walking on a lonely stretch of Suffolk shingle today

and happened to pick up a whistle with a Latin inscription,

don't blow it.

If you heard a tapping sound in your back parlour a few

moments ago, don't worry, it's just the wind. And if you were looking through the TV listings

and noticed that Derica Cora and his Ethiopian spirit guide Sam were taking their EMF metres

to an Oest House near Ashford, don't tune into that. Really, don't. Listen to us because we're

challenging the ghosts on tonight's free thinking. Be they spirits of the air or goblins

damned. The writers Susan Owens and Stuart Evers are here to work out the difference. But first,

we need to decide what's real, what's unreal and what's corporeal in the world

of this week's biggest new film, Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir

of three decades ago.

The original was based on the Philip K. Dick novel, To Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,

and starred Harrison Ford, as a figure deployed to hunt down rogue

androids passing as humans.

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