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

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Tonight, celebrities from Stephen Fry to Jean-Claude Van Dam have talked about being bipolar.

But does that term hide more about mental illness than it reveals?

Psychoanalyst Darian Leader tells us why we may be looking for mood

stabilisation in all the wrong places. And we'll investigate the politics and meaning of

architecture, with critic Rowan Moore and leading practitioner Sunan Prasad. But first, no videotape,

but plenty of sex and lies on stage in the West End. Hello, my love. Where on earth have you been till now? The traffic. We agreed the traffic. Oh, the traffic. Better tell her. I want to tell her. Not everything. Not about the kiss, for instance. I've missed you. Have you? A town straight to the back of my mouth. Cirling like a snake inside. Haven't you miss me?

I always miss you.

You're almost forgotten feel of an unknown woman. Agnes was right, you reek of perfume. Christ. Do I? Is it aftershave? She knows you aftershave. I don't think so. Well, I have no idea. It smells more like women's perfume. Samantha Bond, Zoe Wanamaker and Owen Teal in the new production of Passion Play by Peter Nichols.

And the curtain has just come down on the opening night.

Nichols has described it as a serious bourgeois play, code for a complex web of adultery and deception,

all washed down with a generous helping of nudity.

The combination of eroticism and emotion might be why it's one of Nichols' most revived plays,

that and the unusual structure of the husband and wife's alter egos, appearing on stage with them,

to voice their inner thoughts. This excellent new production is an acknowledgement of Nichols'

place as one of Britain's

most important post-war playwrights. His devastating comedy A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a powerful

portrait of living with a disabled child and the effect that has on a marriage. It draws in part on

Nichols' own life as to his later works, including the National Health and Privates

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