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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Tonight's free thinking contains material of a sexual nature as we put a project coily entitled Would You Mind into

the spotlight. Neil Bartlett tells us what happens when a theatre director picks up the legacy of

Alfred Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, and other pioneers of the sex survey. Also in the spotlight are people

who are too often in the shadows. Our new generation thinker, Claire Walker Gore, takes on a book you may think you know,

Barchester Towers, and tells us why Anthony Trollope provided a positive role model, not of clergyman, but of disability.

And I'll talk to one of Britain's most exciting young novelists, Sanjiv Sohota, about his new novel which focuses on the hidden world of illegal migrants and their lives.

She said to Tochi, look, the food on the plane is free. Do you understand? Don't try and pay for it. Don't cause a scene. Just eat it.

She gave him a small red rucksack to hold over his shoulder. "'A book, toothbrush, socks, motor magazines. "'I don't know why you boys never bring hand luggage. "'It looks so suspicious.' "'And a bright green and gold ribbon to tie onto the bag "'before he got to Turkey. "'It was how the driver would recognise him. "' Won't that look suspicious, he asked. On a

plane with Indians, it'll look restrained. First, though, there are some films that make it to every

director's list of best ever. Citizen Kane, Les Enfons du Paradis, and one masterpiece from India,

such as it raised, Pottepancholi. Released 60 years ago in 1955, it's the story of a family condemned to grinding poverty in rural Bengal

because the father is a Brahmin priest who never manages to make a proper living.

At the centre of the film are two children, daughter Durga and son Apu,

in some of the most extraordinary performances by younger

actors in cinema history. The film caught various rising stars. It was the first of more than 30

films that immortalised Ray as a master of world cinema. The great cinematographer Subratamitra

was also on his first assignment, and the haunting soundtrack was provided by a satirist named Ravishanka.

Pata Pancho.

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