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, 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 is 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.

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And before we start, could you please turn off your phone and mute your social media feed?

As writer Lawrence Scott tells us why upping your number of followers might boost your email. start, could you please turn off your phone and mute your social media feed, as writer

Lawrence Scott tells us why upping your number of followers might boost your ego, but destroy

your soul.

We'll find out why artist Chris Golland is bringing an unknown biblical character to the cloisters

of Chichester Cathedral.

And new generation thinker, Sandeep Palmer, asks if the British poetry scene needs an injection of colour.

First, though, free thinking is a programme that's always in its prime,

just like Miss Jean Brody, the most famous creation of the novelist Muriel Spark.

But it's a different novel of hers that's in the frame today,

one that was adapted as a film back in the 1970s.

No chance at meeting sometime, eh? How long are you planning to stay?

I have someone to meet.

Well, I'm staying at the metropole. I'll book your room there next to mine.

The company will pay for it, because I have to have an orgasm a day on my macrobiotic diet, you see.

I am an idealist.

Oh, I only meant that if we get acquainted, I think somehow that I'm your type, you know?

Do you think so?

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