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 at 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.

Well, with the vanguards and the pioneers tonight, the ones who devise new ways of living, of believing, of designing

tableware. The novelist Philip Hensher is here with us live to compare the achievements of Christians

in Rome, the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, and gay booksellers in 1970s London, and will

meet a man who worked on a comparable frontier. join us tonight in the homely Kentish cottage

of the man they call the grandfather of gay porn.

I'd had this idea for doing a film on a subway for a long time. On the crowded subway,

all sorts of things would go on, you know. And so we shot that movie, beginning in the

Russia in the morning.

New York was very blaze, couldn't care less about it.

And then we finished off with the six about Theaecotte following the morning.

And we ran into a bit of trouble then with traffic cops.

Peter de Rome, on the eve of his 90th birthday,

he looks back on his adventures in rude films,

which are now the subject of a feature-length documentary.

As Peter de Rome was bringing New York audiences into contact with images of their own desires,

a small bookshop in North London was opening up new territory for its constituency.

That's where we begin tonight. New Beacon Books,

whose light drew Black Panthers, Black parents, black poets and their allies. It was founded by

a Trinidadian writer named John LaRose and a student activist called Sarah White. In 1996,

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