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.

Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

Now, would you mind awfully falling in?

On the roll call for tonight's edition of Freethinking, Sir Thomas Moore,

tonight we'll hear that the Tudor statesman and philosopher invented science fiction in 1516.

Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it? We'll also encounter Robin, the diabetic,

autonomous robot toddler, and meet Lola Canyamero, one of the boffins who created him.

She and the writer Lauren Scott

are here to brief us on artificial intelligences with embodied emotions, whatever will they think

of next. And the historians Juliet Gardiner and Stephen Fielding are also part of the platoon

tonight. They're with us live to consider fifth columnists, spies and saboteurs, and they'll be doing so because this week the Home Guard

had been remobilised and are preparing for Gerry to make landfall

somewhere near Warmington on sea.

Very good men, breaking up the outline.

I've put some thought into this, Jones.

Thank you, Captain. Mrs Foxx will thenit me from last year's production of Robin Hood.

I'm a tiny bit of Sherwood Forest.

Oh.

Godfrey?

Look like you're on a cruise to the South Sea.

Oh, thank you so much, sir. It's very kind of you.

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