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

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

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How do you know what people really think of you? Tonight, the American novelist Jonathan D

will tell us about the dangerous power of saying what you really feel. On stage and film,

of course, you can say what you like without the people around you actually hearing,

allow Groucho Marx to demonstrate.

Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.

Why, you, a couple of baboons?

What makes you think I'd marry the one of you?

Strange how the wind blows tonight.

It has a finity voice that reminds me of poor old Marsden.

How happy I could be with either of these two

if both of them just went away.

Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers,

simultaneously sending up Eugene O'Neill

and breaking the fourth wall.

We'll examine the brickwork later.

First, though, the story of a woman who decided to free herself

from a destructive

relationship with a newspaper. Melanie Phillips is her name. You'll know it because you'll probably

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