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, Norman Stone, Margaret Thatcher's favourite historian, reveals how he helped Labour win the 1945 election.

The science writer Maria Konnikova is here to teach you how to think like Sherlock Holmes, a three-pipe problem, I suspect. Would you make of

these pipes?

There, out in the darkness, a fugitive running, fallen from God. Fallen from grace.

God be my witness.

I never shall yield

till we come face to face.

Till we come face to face.

A surging torrent of Le Mizz,

supplied by the professional singer Philip Quost

and by the keen beginner, Russell Crow.

Later, we'll assess the pleasures

and the dangers of being unqualified

with Alan Rusbridger,

editor of the Guardian and amateur pianist,

and Matthew Taylor, head of the Royal and amateur pianist, and Matthew Taylor,

head of the Royal Society of Arts, an amateur middle-distance runner.

The poet Charles Baudelaire was, one of his best friends said, an enlightened amateur.

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