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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Give in to your desires. We all need ideas. We all need the arts. And you're going to get them right here, right now, after this short message.

It's amazing how many recordings you can find these days of a favourite piece of classical music.

Hundreds of Beethoven symphonies, Mozart concertos, Schubert sonatas or Verdi operas. So wouldn't it be great to

have someone to help you pick the very best? Consider it done. I'm Andrew McGregor from BBC Radio

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Let's enter a dream world. It's called the East End of London, 1888. You'd have seen it in

countless films. Maybe you've been on one of those tours

where a guide moves you along the streets, where it all happened, and encourages you to think

thoughts about a surgical knife and the swish of a cape. But you don't need to be there,

because we carry this imagery with us. Wet cobbles, swirling fog, a single gas lamp at the corner of the street.

I don't need to tell you who's standing under it.

The culture has already decided.

So has the discipline of ripperology.

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