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?

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Hello, and so nice of the announcer to hand over with that impression of Johnny Weissmuller swinging from Leana to Leana, loincloth rampant.

Tonight on nightwaves we mark a century since Tarzan dropped from the canopy of American fiction,

with the help of the novelist Michael Shabon and with Ron Ely, the small-screen ape-man of the 1960s.

We'll also go on a trek through the lush undergrowth of

Alistaird, novelist, short-storiest, poet, and like Kilmarnock Prison, an inescapable

Scottish institution. First though, 2012 has been the year of Jessica Ennis and Mo Farrah,

but it's also been the year of another Great Britain, Alfred

Hitchcock, a man who did something more strange and complicated than running. His films were

back in cinemas, Vertigo toppled Citizen Kane from the top position in the sight and sound

pole, and two biopics went into production, a Hollywood movie starring Anthony Hopkins and a BBC drama with Toby Jones inside that carapace of fat.

The birds is coming.

My follow-up to Psycho.

It's got to be bigger, better, scarier.

My most ambitious movie ever. And we want you to star in it.

Toby Jones as Hitchcock bringing the good news to Sienna Miller as Tippy Hedron in The Girl, written by Gwyneth Hughes and screening on BBC 2 on Boxing Day.

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