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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Tonight we'll have a nice, friendly chat about a new movie called Gangster Squad

and find out what happens when you read American history through films in which violin cases very rarely contain violins.

And we launch a cross-channel season celebrating the 80th

birthday of the playwright and novelist Michael Frayne by asking him to explain the relationship

between Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and human behaviour. However good our instruments are,

however closely we observe particles, we cannot know everything simultaneously about the behaviour.

And it seems to me, however closely we observe human beings,

however much more we find out about their neurology,

we're never going to be able, in theory, to know everything about their motivation.

Michael Frayne, more of that explanation later.

First, though, we twist the dial back to 1963,

when Queen magazine was asking, impertinently,

is Michael Frayne as funny as he used to be?

And a boy called Richard Davenport Hines

was speculating about the infidelities

of two respectable English gentlemen,

his own father, who'd kept a mistress on the Edgeware Road and seemingly got away with it,

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