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, love, liberty and large-sized ladies with no clothes on.

I think that I may be the voice of my generation, or at least a voice of a generation.

We explore the dynamics of girls, the acclaimed and controversial HBO comedy,

and how far it's changing the conventions of TV.

What does the Victorian's love of William Wallace as a spirit of British nationhood

reveal about the changing union and constitution

of the United Kingdom. But first, a foray into Latin American fiction and the Anglo-Saxon

publishing world's relationship with it. The writer Daniel Alaccon was born in Lima, but

raised in Alabama. He featured on lists of the best young American novelists under 40 in

New Yorker and Granta, but also on an equivalent Latin American list, Bogota 39. He won a claim

for his story collection, War by Candlelight, which explored the legacy of Peru's military

dictatorship and the war against the Shining Path guerrillas,

as well as tales of urban love. And he's no stranger to Radio 3. In 2008, he presented a program

about his journey from Lima to a town depopulated by migration. His new novel, At Night We Walk in

circles, is set in modern Peru, but connects the

emigration from the countryside to the traumas of military rule and the violence of Lima's

criminal gangs. It follows Nelson, a young man who lands the starring role in a revival and tour

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