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

it. 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. Thanks for downloading

this program from the free thinking team at the BBC. On tonight's free thinking, we enter the sensory

world of the past. We'll bring you the smell of camphor and eucalyptus and Victorian Riverwater.

The novelist Michelle Roberts is here to introduce the Walworth Beauty. We'll bring you the

roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd, as the academics Namy Paxton and

Alan Johnson acquainters with Florence Farr, occultist, suffragist and West End Star, and will

bring you a sound that's like eating foil and scratching a blackboard all at once.

Don't worry, it's just a drill, telling us that the medical historian Richard Barnett is here

to share the pain of his experiences in the archives of dentistry.

Imagine the smell of ether and the taste of blood.

And Jay Commons is here.

He came from York to London today with something to share with us,

which he's going to pass around the table.

Now, I'm not going to explain who Jay is

or why he's come here,

but everybody in the studio is now receiving a little plastic bag,

and I'm going to ask everybody here to inhale from that bag

and tell me what you think it is.

Oh, and you're handing out, what are those, Jay?

These are scent samplers from your Viking sand.

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