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?

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Tonight we explore a time when the country's political landscape was in turmoil.

Protest flourished. Debates were

often rowdy and future governance uncertain. No, not the election campaign of 2015, but the Putney

debates of 1647 filtered through the pen of Carol Churchill, writing in another turbulent period

the 1970s.

Her play, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, opens tomorrow at the National Theatre,

and we've dispatched two historians tonight to see what they make of it.

But we begin at the British Museum and an unprecedented display in Britain

of Indigenous Australian art and culture.

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land

for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life,

but as a place of reverence and worship,

where every tree, rock and waterhole has significance, you will get

some understanding of the importance of land to the indigenous people.

These are words of Tanya Major, cockerberry people from Queensland.

Gay Skullthorpe is one of the curators of Indigenous Australia enduring culture, and she's of native Tasmanian extraction herself.

The British exhibition's one of a pair, the sister one, will open in Australia in the autumn.

Later in the programme, I'll explore the idea of the dreaming and whether that evocative concept really does underpin the Aboriginal

worldview.

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