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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How many different ways can you not believe in God?

Seven, says the philosopher John Gray.

Tonight you'll hear him count them,

and tell us which ones are foolish and which ones intellectually coherent.

Fans of Richard Dawkins may wish to start their breathing exercises now. First, though, we open the file on two mysterious and connected worlds,

espionage and literary theory.

At the end of March, the Bulgarian authorities declassified a batch of files

on a woman they described as an agent of the first

chief directorate of state security, Sophia's equivalent of the KGB.

She was a Bulgarian expat living in Paris and her codename was Sabina. Here she is.

My identity is very multiple. I'm from Bulgarian origin, French citizen, European nationality, and I say very often that

I'm in American adoption.

Because when I came from Bulgaria in France on the eve of Christmas 65 with a scholarship given by this great visionary

General de Gaulle in order to make the thesis on the Nouveau-Romont. The French

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