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.

On tonight's program, belonging is the most compelling, cultural and political question of our time.

Anywhere across Europe, the issue stares back at us.

Who are we? Who belongs? Who doesn't?

This is what we'll be talking about this evening with the director of a haunting new

Hungarian film, The White God. Think Lassie comes home meets Hitchcock's The Birds

and an award-winning Dutch novelist,

author of an austere new fiction,

These are the Names.

It's a fiction about nameless migrants,

a severed head,

and a border town policeman in a post-Soviet country

who discovers he's Jewish.

But all this is later.

Now, a scientist who sits in a trance listening to Bach's first cello suite, but not this version played by Jacqueline Dupre, as will become clear later.

All this week, free thinkings talking to people who are not involved in the arts in order to understand what the arts mean to them in their professional and their private lives.

All part of the BBC's Get Creative Campaign.

Anne Glovers, the former scientific advisor to the European Union,

once she left, her post was abolished, a rather controversial decision.

Having served her term, she's now in Berlin on sabbatical.

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