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

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds.

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Hello and welcome to this ready-made edition of Nightwaves. It was like this when we found it, I promise you, but the art lies in the fact that we put it on the radio.

So let me enumerate its elements. Marcel Duchamp, the daddy of Dardar, will get to him briskly.

The asteroid that will blow a kiss to the earth on Friday.

And Sylvia Plath, whose death is now half a century away,

but whose poetry is as vital as ever.

And the death of film.

Did you notice that happening?

George Lucas did, and some say he killed it.

We got up and had a big meeting saying that I was the devil incarnate.

I was going to destroy the industry. I was going to destroy all their jobs.

That, you know, this is inferior, that he says he shot attack of the clones digitally, but he didn't.

We have word that he actually used film cameras.

He's not shooting digital. He's lying

to everybody. George Lucas in a new documentary about the future of film. We've called in the artist

Tacitadeen and the director Mike Figgis to assess it. First, though, we examine another cultural

fault line, the symbol of which is a piece of work in white ceramic that began an argument

about art that still hasn't quite left us. I bet at least one observer of the most celebrated

object trouvet that was truvéed by Marcel Duchamp said, my five-year-old could urinate

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