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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Hello, tonight on night waves, let's stop and smell the hair gel.

We'll adjust our mullets as we debate a new history that assesses winners and losers from those long-lost days of the 1980s.

Vienna might mean nothing to you, but it meant a great deal to the 20th century's greatest philosopher.

60 years after the publication of his masterwork,

we'll assess the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

And we'll venture much further east than Austria,

as we ask whether Bombay or Busan is going to win the 21st century's war for cultural power.

Now, if your own private Madeleine moment involves leg warmers and limaul, then, like me,

you may be a survivor of that starkly coloured era that was the 80s.

It was a period when video killed the radio star, industrial obsolescence killed the coal mines,

and the city of London just made a killing.

One person who's been drilling down into the decade that nuance forgot is the historian Graham Stewart,

in his new book, Bang, a history of Britain in the 1980s.

His analysis places Margaret Thatcher at its heart, with her economic policies influencing everything

from house prices to postmodern architecture. And it will stir controversy as it takes sides

on modern Britain's most divisive decade. So when I spoke to Graham Stewart earlier,

I asked him why the period seemed such an enigma.

The paradox lies in the sense that on the one hand,

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