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 is 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

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. This is a download

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Tonight on nightwaves, we're scaling the heights.

Composer Simon Fisher-Tunner tells us how he conquered Everest

without oxygen or ropes and just a little help from some plastic bags.

Forty years after General Pinochet overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende

will debate the legacy of that coup for Latin America and the world.

And who's the artist garnering this exuberant praise?

I think that she's the strongest artist of her generation.

Interestingly, Damien Hearst thinks that.

He's on record saying that he thinks she's the greatest living artist,

the greatest artist that he knows.

Which is by generous with him since she's on record saying that she thinks that he and Tracy

M in a second rate. She doesn't pull her punches. To find out who Damien rates, stay tuned.

But first, I felt for her a real libidinous passion. Her shapely buttocks were presented to my

admiring contemplation.

A steamy story told by the Victorian adventurer Edmund Backhouse about his supposed affair

with no less a figure than the Dowager Empress of China. The only problem, the story was entirely

fictional. Yet it rang true for many, because for the best part of a century, the Dowager

Empress Tsihi has been portrayed as a sinister, seductive, and reactionary figure who sat

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