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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Hello, the crisis of European modernity. That's what we're all about here on nightwaves.

Well, that and the excellent cuss-cus recipes. And tonight, I'm holding the ring between

leading journalist Nick Cohen and seminal sociologist Zygman Baumann on whether we should fear the modern surveillance society or embrace it.

Playwright Christopher Hampton celebrates the 75th birthday of the greatest European novel you may never have heard of.

And as a post-script to Radio 3's coverage of Wagner's Ring Cycle,

one of the finest movies of the Weimar era is back, Fritz Lang's The Niebelungen.

But first, a man who's dealt with the complexities of modernity, not on screen, but on canvas.

I remember being given a paintbox in Germany. I mean, I remember vividly what seems to me to be putting a brush for the first time onto a cake of watercolour.

And I think one of my tricks, like you get a dog to roll over, was that I did little drawings.

And in my case, there were red Indians on scooters, which I was asked to draw.

I can't have been more than three or four.

I'm not certain that I specifically wanted to paint,

but I do think I wanted to do something that was what's called creative.

The artist Frank Auerbach.

Auerbach is one of that legendary generation of post-war British painters,

along with Lucien Freud and Leon Kossoff.

A refugee from Nazi Germany, he settled in North London and has scarcely ever left it since,

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