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.

Hello, and for any of you eyeing the next couple of weeks of lockdown with the nearest and dearest

with a pinch of dread,

well, pity your medieval forefathers. Their feasts of St Nicholas could go on for 40 days.

We'll have more on the rituals of Christmas in the Middle Ages later.

And if that thought doesn't make you scream, a new work by the best-selling novelist Sarah Waters just might.

Her first piece for theatre,

Frozen Scream, is a gothically scary tale opening in Cardiff tonight. We'll be hearing from her later.

But first, 2014 on TV, has been less horror show, a lot more cops, robbers and corpses. What

addicts so many of us to dramas like these?

A man doesn't wake up one morning

and find that he has become a sexual psychopath,

nor does he wake up one day and discover that the condition is gone.

It develops over a very long period of time.

We need to find out everything that we possibly can about Paul Sputter.

You people.

Lindsay, don't.

You people, you sit there and you try and twist some case out of my misfortunes.

All I did was do my job. It's all I've ever done.

I shouldn't have even been on duty that night.

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