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.

Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.

What would ruin a perfect beach holiday?

You're lying on a sunlanger, sifting sand through your fingers.

As you reach for your cocktail, the screaming begins.

Looking past the blur of running bodies, you see the ominous dorsal fin slicing through the water.

As BBC Radio 4's book at Bedtime offers you a chance to hear Henry Henry Goodman reading Peter Benchley's novel, Jaws,

we thought it was the perfect time for the Arts and Ideas podcast to revisit a discussion about the bestseller that put a generation off swimming.

Matthew Sweet's guests include novelist Will Self and shark expert, Gareth Fraser.

This is the BBC.

Hello, this edition of Freethinking is one of those devoted to a salient work in the culture.

We've done the satanic verses, we've done the singing detective,

we've done Aller-Rourche-de-Thompe Perdue, landmarks, we tend to call them,

though it won't do for this program. This one's an expedition into dangerous waters.

The work were hunting is a film, a film from a period in which the Hollywood studios had come

to believe that spectacle and disaster were their best hope for survival. And it's a book, too, the sort of book that sold so many copies

that it became one of those titles that was always there

in the charity bookshop or the jumble sale,

the cloister and the half of the Jimmy Carter era.

Brody?

Not that chumlet again for you.

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