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.

John, thanks very much indeed.

On tonight's program, The Very Profane, as well as the Sacred. Later, Geoff Dyer on

Milan Kundera's new book, with its fascination with the erotics of young women's navels, and a

terrifying joke Stalin told about killing partridges. Also, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and I go ten rounds,

his words, and what's the relationship between religion and violence, from the Bible to Kierkegaard, from John Locke to the Middle East now.

Secularists are not treated kindly.

Albert Camus once said the most fundamental philosophical question is, why should I not commit suicide?

I think the most fundamental philosophical question is,

why should I have a child?

And secular logic doesn't really answer that.

More from Jonathan Sachs later.

But first, a comic play whose title is so profane, so shocking,

that I'm advised to say it only once during the programme.

The Mother Fucker with a Hat.

A 2011 play by Stephen Adley Gerges is set in New York.

Its subject is love, fidelity, and a guilty hat.

It's medium farce.

Jackie is just out of prison, a drug dealer trying to go straight.

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