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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Now, tonight on night waves is 10 billion of us enough or too much for poor old planet Earth.

We'll be discussing that conundrum with the author of a new book.

What do war photographs the Bible and Bertolt Brecht have in common?

The winner of the major new photography prize will be telling me why his work links all three.

But first, how do you make drama from the nitty-gritty business of putting together Britain's coalition?

David Edgar is a political dramatist, whose past material has ranged from the life of Albert Spear

to the transition from communism to democracy in has ranged from the life of Albert Speer to the transition

from communism to democracy in Eastern Europe and the politics of multiculturalism,

excuse me, multiculturalism here at home. Now he turns his attention to the political

geometry in the run-up to the last election and it's seen through the eyes of three characters

from the main parties stranded at a Spanish airport by the volcanic ash cloud back in 2010.

While they're sniping, flirting and trying to get the car to start to get home for the election,

they find themselves arguing about the balance of principle and pragmatism

and making a sort of ad hoc coalition of their own.

That encounter has consequences after the election. If Only is opening at the Chichester

Festival this week and when I spoke to David Edgar from there, I wanted to know what the big

if of the drama is about. There was an if only for all three of the political parties in the 2010 election.

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