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 on nightwaves, as a referendum on Europe is finally announced,

two veterans of Britain's Euro Wars will be surveying the battlefield.

We'll delve into the question of what makes an artist.

What does it take to be one?

I'll talk to Juergantella, photographer of the famous, as you've never seen them before, about his new exhibition. And the hunt of the world's most wanted man comes to the screen.

You just want me to nail some low-level mullah crackadol so you can check that box on your resume that says while you were in Pakistan, you got a real terrorist. But the truth is, you don't

understand Pakistan, and you don't know Al-Qaeda. Jessica Chastain is a frustrated CIA agent

on the trail of Bin Laden in Zero Dark 30. We'll be reviewing the film later. But first,

it's fully 18 years since Bernard Connolly, a disgruntled official in the European Commission's Monetary Affairs Department, published a fierce polemic which alarmed his colleagues and shook up the debate in Britain.

The rotten heart of Europe argued that the single currency project couldn't succeed without greater drive for political union and a Franco-German axis driving the project.

Mr Conley was abruptly sacked by the Commission after laying down a nightmare scenario,

predicting economic upheaval, social turbulence and political tensions,

though they do bear some resemblance to the Eurozone today.

Now the book is being republished with the foreword by the author which says in effect

you were warned. But have Europe's dreams and disappointments changed since the intellectual

battles of the 90s? Bernard Connolly joined me in the studio earlier along with Anatole Kaletsky,

the Reuters economic commentator who's followed the infighting from German unification

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