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?

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Hello. He once said, everything happens twice in history, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Well, the author of those words, Carl Marx, is himself

now the subject of farce, as we'll hear soon. And we'll also be hearing from the award-winning

poet Tara Bergin about a new collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marks. More Marx,

then. And in a programme where one Marx or another is everywhere,

and post the crash of 2008, it's hardly surprising,

we also encounter Marx the Economist and Marx the Revolutionary.

He stalks the pages of Janis Varifakis

as talking to my daughter about the economy.

And there's a new skull. In another universe, you might have heard fanfare for the common man,

but that was in fact a burst of incidental music composed by Grant Olding for Young Marks, a new play written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

They present us with the Marx who shins up a lamppost, hides in cupboards from creditors, takes part in a duel, shuffles off responsibility for making a servant pregnant.

Young Marks premieres tomorrow night at the first commercial theatre opened in London for 80 years.

Directing the play and the Bridge Theatre is Nickers Heitner, former National Theatre Director.

When I met Richard Bean earlier, I began by asking about FAST. Joe Orton once said FOS was more important, more serious than tragedy, is it?

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