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? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

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Tonight on nightwaves, civil unrest, conspiracy, assassination, we review an all-female

Julius Caesar set in a women's prison. As thousands of Muslims flee a campaign of attacks by

Buddhists in Burma,

we explore the history of violence in the faith that's renowned for its supposed principle of Ahimsa or harmlessness.

And what does this football anthem sung on the terraces of Anfield reveal about the Irish potato famine?

Lull lie the fields of Bath and Rye

Where once we watched the small feverish fly

Later the writer Tim Pat Coogan explores the legacy of British policy during the Irish famine of the 1840s.

But first, Shakespeare's play of conspiracy politics and civil war, Julius Caesar, seems to be inspiring many new interpretations.

We saw the Royal Shakespeare Company's All Blackcast earlier this year.

Deborah Warner's modern dress production at the Barbican in 2005 was very much framed as a military

operation gone or rye in the shadow of the Iraq War. Tonight, a new all-female version opened

at the Donmar warehouse in London. Director Philida Lloyd takes plenty of liberties with the text,

framing it as a play within a play staged by inmates in a female prison.

Francis Barber plays Caesar as a lesbian queen of the cell block.

Harriet Walter is Brutus and some ex-offenders are featured in its young cast.

Later we'll talk to the actor Fiona Shaw and Carol Rutter,

the professor who turned Lenny Henry onto Shakespeare about the practice of cross-casting.

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