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.

Tonight, the royalty of the German art world on display in London with exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer and Sigma Polka,

and kingship dissected as Philida Lloyd's Henry IV opens at the Donmar.

I'll be asking her about her all-female Shakespeare and what that does to Hal and Falstaff.

I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king?

Do not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief?

No, thou shalt.

Shall I?

Oh, rare.

By the Lord and I'll be a brave judge.

Thou judgesest false already.

I mean thou shalt have the hanging of a thief and so become a rare hang man.

Thou are indeed the most rascliest sweet young prince and able to corrupt a saint.

Ashley Maguire and Claire Dunn in Philida Lloyd's Henry IV.

More later on that plus the Nobel Prize for Literature,

and it's often hard to work out which head the Swedish Academy will plonk the laurels on.

This year's winner, announced today, fulfilled the surprise billing,

but it's deemed long overdue by his legions of French fans.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2014 is awarded to the French author, Patrick Modiano.

For the art of memory, he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies

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