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, on tonight's program,

why do prison guards shaving a condemned man in a US death row cell

seems so ashamed? An interview with an impassioned Brian Stevenson, the most renowned

anti-capital punishment lawyer in America, on the connection between lynching and executions

and on being broken by suffering. Also, a discussion on the

new novel by Harper Lee about whose classic to kill a mockingbird, Brand Stevenson, has

something not altogether complimentary to say. Plus, Thomas Moore's Utopia and a London gang

member meet in a new installation by Penny Wolcock,

best known for her documentaries and a film of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer,

and a new play about leadership and Englishness that simply runs amok in the city of Sheffield.

I need you.

That's my whole pitch.

That's my speech today.

I need you.

Each and everyone

and everything will become different.

Whatever I say after, whatever happens, remember that.

You matter.

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