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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On tonight's programme, Quentin Tarantino's new film, Django Unchanged,

where Sergio Leone collides with the American Western landscape

and encounters birth of a nation.

A radical masterpiece or mannerist doodlings in film history.

We'll find out soon.

And a new book, Sorry, The English and Their Manners,

explains why the English handshake is so important

and why the Earl of Oxford felt it necessary to leave England

when he farted in the company of the Queen, manners and power in English history and life later.

Plus, the winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize is announced, we doorstep her and ask her to read a poem.

But first, Django Unchained, an Oscar-nominated film that the African-American director, Spike Lee, has damned as disrespectful to his ancestors without seeing it.

Django is two hours, 45 minutes, with the rich stew of good actors from Janie Fox to Leonardo DiCaprio.

It begins two years before the Civil War

when a German bounty hunter

teams up with a slave he's freed.

They bounty hunt murderers

and then go in search of the freedman's wife

who is still enslaved on the biggest Mississippi plantation

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