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 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. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds.

This evening on free thinking, we hear that when chronic pain hits your brain, you should let

the latest developments in neuroscience take the strain,

with a little help from ancient techniques of meditation.

Psychiatrist Norman Doidge helps us to heal later on.

But if your pain is more acute,

coming from a secret policeman and his flying truncheon

hitting your tender parts,

then you may need advice from

Sertia Popovich, the man who used Gandhian tactics to bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan

Milosevic, and who's now in Britain with his own blueprint for revolution. We'll hear his

bullet points later, non-violent bullets, of course. But first, a close encounter, not in a railway station, but in an office,

where domination rather than desk space seems to be the major issue.

You're quite a certain, aren't you?

Headed across your mind.

That I decide what will happen to you, not your uncle?

Let me give you some advice.

If you don't want to be out of work,

you have to abide by our rules.

But you don't.

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