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

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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Hello, tonight we explore Queen Victoria's spicy past,

as her Indian connections are revealed in Tanaka Gupta's new play, The Empress.

Move over Rockefeller and Guggenheim.

When we're talking patronage of the arts,

out go crumbly millionaires with checkbooks, and in comes crowdfunding. We'll find out more. And as art goes, this is so cutting edge, it's practically bleeding. Bob's truth, Terracom. Ansti Bob Manchin-Fo-Bins, lintoshlusson, which is the one of the time. Dehomre is the infatobin,

panstorusti dians, invented by mansion folkins, lintoshlustin, which quend de quen, don't quent,

delaccon.

De humry is lint phaubis, banstorusti dians, de gosundas, de norin, de coli. Invented language and strange sounds in the film Paradigm, made by B.S. Johnson, the cult writer whose movies have just been re-released after more than four decades. We'll find out what they tell us

about one of modernism's most individual voices. But first, in his play The Invention of Love,

Tom Stoppard portrays the poet A.E. Hausman's dearest wish is to hear just a tiny extract

from one of the lost works of classical antiquity.

Surely we've all wondered at times about the great art of the past that may never be seen again,

most of the dramas of classical Greece or the great old masters destroyed in the wartime bombing of London or Berlin.

The critic Rick Chikosky has given into that longing in his new book on works of art that

have been lost, stolen or shredded. From the burning of Lord Byron's memoirs by his publisher

to the destruction of Graham Sutherland's portrait of Churchill by his wife. He's focused on the

artworks that have disappeared from the artistic sphere. But what does their loss tell us about what we value?

I mean, Rick, if we think about the entire length of world history, of art history, much more

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