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.

Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.

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I'm Anne McHawoy. Thanks for downloading this podcast from Freethinking.

Ownership of land and rights of way have been a vex topic for centuries, especially at the height of the enclosure acts.

Inclosure, like a bonaparte, let not a thing remain. It levelled every bush and tree, and levelled every hill,

and hung the moulds for traitors. Though the brook is running still, it runs a naked brook,

cold and chill. John Clare, writing in 1832, will'll be considering the social and economic consequences of enclosure

and the myths that have arisen around it a bit later on. We'll also hear a plea from one of our

new generation thinkers for more attention to be paid to Branwell Bronte's literary significance.

And the winner of this year's Pushkin House Russian Book Prize was announced last night.

We'll be speaking to her and to one of the judges.

But first with the election, or at least the voting finally over, who better to hold the

campaign up to the light for close inspection than two scribblers who've been pulling it

apart for the last six weeks with a bucket of ready wit and a twist of mischief.

John Crace is the Guardian's political sketchwriter and Quentin lets has the same gig at the Daily Mail.

So John, why do we need sketchwriters? It seems a bit of a hangover from a world when we couldn't watch

footage of politicians making their gaffs on social media.

Are you just elegant dinosaurs?

We're sort of the court jesters, I like to think.

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