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.

Hello, sex sells, it said, but we don't need to worry about that tonight, thanks to the unique way

the BBC is funded. So stay tuned to discover what's really being measured when statisticians go into

the bedroom. We can also promise a much more troubling exposure. The filmmaker Nick Broomfield

is here to tell us what the case of an American serial killer reveals about the soul of the country in which he found his victims.

And we have an 80-year-old scoop for you,

the oldest surviving audiobook, recorded when Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister,

and broadcast for the very first time right now.

Henry Esmond, by William Make Peace, Sacri, written in 1850 tomb,

Preface, the Esmonds of Virginia.

The estate of Castlewood in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles I,

as some return for the sacrifices made in His Majesty's cause by the Esmond family,

lies in Westman.

The history of Henry Esmond, recorded for audio in 1935.

Later, we'll narrate the history of the talking book.

Now, there are lies, damn lies, and the things people say when they're responding to sex surveys.

The statistician David Spiegelhalter,

whose name sounds gloriously like a piece of Austrian bondage equipment, has been hunkering down

over the raw data from the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles,

which is among the biggest and most detailed scientific studies of sexual behaviour ever conducted.

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