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.

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Hello, anthropology has had a difficult reputation, accused of racist attitudes towards the human subjects it's traditionally studied.

But there's change afoot.

Join me, Anne McHelvoy, to discuss anthropology from university discipline to method for corporate self-analysis, just after this.

Hello, my name's Ian McMillan, and before you slide into the podcast you were expecting,

let me tell you a little bit about my programme The Verbe, Radio 3's Literary Festival,

language cafe, and journey to the centre of the sentence.

We'll hear new poems and stories, specially commissioned for the show,

and we'll ask the kinds of questions that writers really like to be asked, like,

do you use a pen or a pencil? No, I promise, we won't ask that one. I use a pen, by the way.

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What makes humankind tick and how far does the study of anthropology help us mere humans understand that better?

Today we peer through the lens of a subject that's often been deployed to examine distant worlds from the one we inhabit day to day.

But in recent years its focus has turned back from study of people's living in exotic lands

far away to look more closely at our own existence.

And I'd like to take a look too at who's been left out of traditional Western anthropology as a discipline.

What happens to those who have made objects of study themselves

and what might that tell us about gaps in the inquiry? We'd also like to examine how efforts

to address these imbalances are playing out in practice and what the trade-offs might be.

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