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.

Hello and tonight on the program, what a swell party we have for you with a first night

review of high society.

The composer and writer Neil Brand will be hot-footing it from London's old Vic, in his

white tie, no doubt, to pass verdict. The writer Jinran, who caused a storm with her account

of the lives of China's women, will be discussing her new book, Buy Me the Sky, about the

lasting effects of China's one-child policy.

Chinese children, they're very clever, they're hard work by the family,

by the tradition, by everything.

But again, come to this single-child policy,

they are cut off from real life.

They didn't know how to manage daily life, so they have no idea how to deal with even family. More from Jinran later on in the program. Well, on Tuesday's show,

Matthew Sweet was joined by Alastair Campbell, among others, to explore the visceral side of politics

and elections, from gut instinct to explore the visceral side of politics and elections,

from gut instinct to stomach-churning reversals of fortune.

Tonight, we apply a longer lens to the political events of the last seven days.

One of the things I noticed helping analyse the results as they came flooding in a week ago

was the sense that this was an election that represented real change

and overturned many expectations. The parties now have to judge how to play the hands that

they've been dealt, but might circumstances thrown up by past elections give them some guidance?

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