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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Tonight we explore the public conversation of social history online and off.

Oliver Stone on his untold history of the United States,

novelist Jim Amanda Nogosi Adichie on social engineering through fiction and blogs,

A.S. Biat on the British Library's web harvesting archive project,

and Nostra Culper, the new opera, based on the face-off via blog post and tweets,

between economist Paul Krugman and the president of Estonia.

Estonian Rhapsody.

Stimulate.

I'll be talking to the composer of Nostrakulpa later.

But first, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Nogosie Adichie has won her fiction.

Half of a yellow sun won the orange prize.

Her new novel, Americana, took five years to write and seems to happily take on the challenge

of the great American novel.

It's focused on the love story of Ephemilu and Obinze, two book-loving students growing up in Lagos.

They negotiate heartbreak, depression and financial hardship as immigrants in America and Britain.

The novel is packed with real observations and incidents from the author's life.

The heroine writes a blog in which she muses on the peculiarities of racial identity in liberal American campus life.

In this reading, an African student challenges the censorship of the N-word in a program

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