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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On tonight's programme, orthodoxy has it that we are much, much less ashamed and secretive than our Victorian forebears.

But is it true?

We'll discuss later as a new book is published on Living with Shame across 200 years of family history

in Britain. A Czech survivor of Auschwitz kept a secret for 20 years. Now he's finally published

his experience as a 10-year-old boy of singing Schiller's Ode to Joy in Auschwitz opposite the

crematorium.

We talked to Otto Dovculator and the new play opens in London mixing dance, music and words, moving across 300 years and at least three continents. It celebrates the endurance of Yoruba culture.

More on the feast later,

but first, a Washington revenge tragedy based on the British novel and TV series,

House of Cards,

where a chief whip manipulates everyone and everything to become Prime

Minister.

This is the memo I've drafted on our Middle East policy we've been developing. I'd like to

coin the phrase trickle down diplomacy. That way.

We are not nominating you for Secretary of State. I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.

The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

Now, in this American version you've just heard,

Kevin Spacey plays a House Majority Whip on Capitol Hill passed over for a powerful role.

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