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

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On tonight's programme, Covent Garden's new production of Chikovsky's Eugene Anirgin.

The man next to me booed at the curtain. We review soon.

And liberty and security. We need them both.

But a new book argues that freedom has been

collapsed into security, especially post-9-11. I talk with the lawyer Conagherty later,

and extinction. Of course it's an elegiac matter. Well, a new exhibition argues not,

more a matter for celebration.

Two scientists and the writer Ian Sinclair discuss.

But first, a man born without a hand,

now has a new prosthetic one with bionic fingers that can do delicate tasks.

Now that I have this one, I feel that the hand is a part of me because it is connected so well, it moves so effortlessly and it's so easy to control.

And this has given me a much stronger sense of confidence.

So now if I don't wear it, I feel that there's something missing.

Bertoltmire in a forthcoming Channel 4 documentary.

Now, Bertoltmire was born without a hand, and for 30 years he lived with an ugly, only half-useful prosthetic one.

Times have changed, and in this this documentary he goes in search of what

bionic technology can now do for the human body. He finds that military research is deep

into bionics, tries out a new hand, prosthetic legs where the ankle moves, a bionic eye and

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