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

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tonight, how do significant anniversaries change our relationship with great lives and with terrible acts of cruelty?

The Turkish government has always refused to consider the murder of up to one and a half million Armenians under Ottoman rule in 1915 as genocide.

But with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offering condolences for the mass killings for the first time,

we explore how and why the taboo may be lifting as the 100th anniversary approaches.

And it will also be celebrating the legacy of a British poet who went west to California

and helped redefine the poetry of the modern post-war age.

Your paint still hangs in air, sharp moats of it suspended.

The voice of your despair, that also is not ended.

When near your death a friend asked you what he could do,

remember me, you said. We will remember you.

Tom Gunn, reading from Memory Unsettled.

It's 60 years since his first book, Fighting Terms, was published,

and it's the 10th anniversary of his death in 2004.

The poets, Paul Farley, Fiona Sampson, and Clive Wilmer

will be joining me later to discuss the man and his work.

But first, an exploration of the American pursuit of happiness.

Michael Cunningham's best-known and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours,

explored the way three different women faced a crisis about their identity and their place in the world.

His new book, The Snow Queen, takes two brothers,

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