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?

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But are they lessons?

All these things I learn through being so far gone in my decline,

the wages of experience I earn would serve as well a younger life than mine.

I should have been more kind.

It is my fate to find this out, but find it out too late.

Clive James, taking stock of his life a quatrain at a time.

Tonight he talks about mortality and poetry,

and the great work of what illness has determined must be his late period, a new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.

The programme tonight is something of a journey through hell, purgatory and paradise, and our other guide is also from the bottom of the world.

She's Jane Campion, director of the piano,

which made her the first female director to win the Palm Door,

director of an angel at My Table,

a TV miniseries adapted from the autobiographies

of the novelist Janet Frame.

In the last two decades,

most of her work has been for the big screen,

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