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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Now, say cheese, everyone, and watch the birdie.

Everyone would likely have gone, wow, and there would have been that sudden burst of light,

and then the air would have been really smelly. I, the big, flash, bang, what a picture, what a picture. What a photograph. Poor old soul. Blumny what a joke. At blown off in a cloud of smoke, clap pan. Stam, stammer feet. banging on the big beach drum. What a picture. What a picture. What a picture. Steered in your family. Tommy Steele, what a picture, what a picture, Rantillyam, bum, bam, bum, bum,

see it in your family.

Oh, palms.

Thank you, man.

Tommy Steele in half a sixpence,

describing the shock of flash photography in 1905,

and the academic Kate Flint,

taking us back even further

to the first British flash photographic portrait

shot in Manchester in 1864. More on that

developing story later. And on one of the greatest traumas of the American 20th century, the Vietnam War,

the great documentary maker Ken Burns, the author of Landmark series on the American Civil War and

the history of jazz, as well as the

man for whom the Ken Burns effect is named, will tell us what lessons the Vietnam era might

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