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.

On tonight's program, Roots, Radicals and Rebels, Rod Little and Douglas Cars Carswell MP join me to discuss libertarianism

and whether pushing back the state is an idea whose time is gone or just arriving.

We continue to find out who the 2014 new generation thinkers are as Naomi Paxton

unearths the forgotten history of the actresses franchise league and I've been going underground to unearth the secret state.

When we're talking about things like surveillance or the internet

or telecommunications, infrastructures, or cybernetic warfare, for that example,

we often use metaphors that are very ephemeral.

We think about the cloud or we think about the information

superhighway. They seem kind of placeless. I'm an artist and really what I want out of art,

the kind of art that I enjoy and that kind of art that I want is art that helps us see the

historical moment that we're living and art perhaps calls attention to things that we wouldn't

otherwise notice in the same

way. Trevor Paglin, the American artist, whose new commission at Gloucester Road tube

station tackles global surveillance. But first, a new book, a collection of Ranta writings,

spiritual liberty and sexual freedom in the English Revolution, is the first comprehensive

attempt to anthologize the key ranta writings of the 17th century. It's a very... and sexual freedom in the English Revolution is the first comprehensive attempt

to anthologise the key ranta writings of the 17th century.

It's a reminder of the colourful writing style

of the religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War

...