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 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. This is a download

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Tonight's Nightwaves is no place for understatement. It's a place for crying and sequins and gin.

And we may even get out our Dorothy Squire's records as we discuss camp, history, theory and practice.

And we'll introduce the first of this year's new generation

thinkers, that dazzling chorus line of young British intellectuals. The opening number is about

Kitty Marion, suffragette, arsonist, musical star. And we'll have a nice long conversation

with an old generation thinker, the veteran, T.J. Clark, who will tell us the truth about Picasso.

First, though, Liberace is on the blower.

Scott, is that you?

Hi.

Yeah, uh, Mr.

No, please just call me Lee.

Lee, okay. Yeah, I have the medicine for your poodle, for his eyes.

Oh, my savior.

Okay, I was going to just tuck it in the mail tomorrow morning,

and it should be there, you know, in a few days.

Oh, no, no, I don't want baby boy to have to wait that long.

Why don't you just book a flight and come up this evening at my expense?

Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover to be, Scott, in Stephen Soderberg's

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