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, on tonight's program, Arab Jazz, an award-winning crime novel set largely in the Parisian arrondissement,

where Charlie Hebdo was played out with characters who might have featured in that tragedy.

I talked to the author soon and then invite another guest to ask whether the French secular dream can or even deserves to be preserved.

Plus later, Artis Tazir on the way things were.

His new novel about India's present and recent history,

which has its own ruminations on politics and religion.

I imagine not least because his Pakistani father was murdered by Islamic fundamentalists

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