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, it's 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 at 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.

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On tonight's programme Tolstoy's Master and Man, filmed under the title Boxing Day by Bernard Rose,

who some years ago had a Damascus Road conversion from horror films to the great Russian writer,

a conversation with the director soon.

No one can doubt we're living through a public inquiry era, from the Iraq inquiry to this year's Leveson.

But do we trust such inquiries, or even know what the public is? Did we ever?

Later we discussed the idea of the public from the 18th century to the present.

Plus, I can't think of any other disease

that's horrible,

but has, due to some of its victims,

a certain strange glamour.

Inside, oh, my God.

Oh, Mary,

Oh,

Mary,

and

love

for me

for

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