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?

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.

Up from the depths, 30 stories high, it's free thinking.

The 30 stories high, it's free-thinking.

Well, okay, it's Godzilla, but we're riding on his horny old carapace tonight and discovering how large he looms in the Japanese cultural imagination.

We'll also be asking if violent civil war looks good in pink the colour it takes on

in the work of this week's winner of one of the world's richest photography prizes,

and we pursue a bit of consumer advice.

Should economic students ask for a refund because their tutors didn't see the crash coming?

First, though, a new theatre version of an old war poem.

Manchester is the scene, though truth be told, when those that nestle on bonquettes

within the metal O of the exchange raise up their eyes, they will behold Priam's six-gated

city Troy, the ravished Helen, Menelaus Queen, portrayed by erstwhile model Lily Cole, reviving

Homer's story for the stage,

as told by poet Simon Armitage.

I think the job of the playwright,

even when you're dealing with ancient texts and ancient subjects,

is to create a plausible universe,

a world that people can believe in.

And you can stretch the fabric of that universe

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