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 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.

We had a bite to eat from the cafeteria.

Of course the kiddies didn't know what was going to happen.

But I knew they'd catch up with us, wherever we tried to bed down for the night.

You're not having my kids.

You're not having my kids.

A homeless woman screaming as her children are torn from her arms.

This is Britain, a First World War conscript facing the firing squad for refusing to fight.

This is Britain too.

And a boy mourning the death of a hawk. and a teenage girl visiting a back street abortionist,

and a bunch of young lawyers arguing about the washing up,

and a police officer snorting a line of coke from a toilet system.

This is Britain examined by the film and television producer Tony Garnett,

whose five-decade career has brought all of this to the British public,

most of it right into their living rooms, in Cathy come home, in Days of Hope, Kez, up the junction,

this life, the cops. It's a career that has attracted the attention of audiences in their tens of

millions, who may never have known his name, and critics and commentators who have

sometimes found it hard to get an interview with him. Documentaries have been made about the work

of Tony Garnett. You may not see him in them, but now he's written a memoir called The Day

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