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.

On tonight's free-thinking, concrete brutalism, have we learned to love its hard and compromising

textures,

or does it still make us want to jump on a chair and scream? It's a kind of a 50 Shades of Grey question.

And how full-blooded is the work of Russell T. Davis?

Tonight he'll tell us about his cucumber and his banana, two dramas standing proud in the schedules of two separate TV channels. Before that,

though, the tense matter of the Oscar nominations announced this afternoon by the Academy

President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Tense, because reading out names, particularly slightly foreign ones,

clearly wasn't the reason why President Isaacs achieved high office. The cinematographer Dick Pope got called Dick Poop.

And with all of those nominations for Birdman,

you could feel the words Alejandro Gonzalez-inaritu

thundering towards her from the auto-cue.

And then came the nominations for Best Foreign Language Picture,

which is our focus for tonight.

And few, it was just the titles.

In the best foreign language film category, the nominees are, from Poland, Eda, from Russia, Leviathan,

from Estonia, Tangerines, from Mauritania, Timbuktu, and from Argentina, wild tales.

Cheryl Boone Isaac's announcing that Wild Tales from Argentina and four other pictures are up for best foreign language film.

Now, we're entering the same minefield,

and we've gathered a trio of film experts to analyse

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