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 here on nightwaves as Barbara Hepworth's hospital drawings feature in a new exhibition,

our reviewers will be exploring the sculptor's tender portrayal of medical expertise.

David Byrne, the best-travelled stylistic tourist of modern music,

will be talking to me about opera houses, MP3 players,

and what inspired Talking Heads hits like this one.

Cycle killer in Cuska, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-bada.

Run, run, run, run, run away oh psycho killer

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David Byrne there and don't run away he's coming up later

But first Thomas Caneely the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's

Ark, delves into another chapter of 20th century strife in a new novel, The Daughters of Mars.

Kenileys a historian who, in a prolific range of writing over four decades, has chronicled

Australia's multi-layered national identity, especially in the novel The Playmaker, later dramatised

as Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wharton Baker. In this new story, he takes us back to the

First World War and the tale of Naomi and Sally Durrance, girls from a backwater who end up as nurses

at the front line of bloody events as Australian troops join the fighting in Europe.

When I met Thomas Caneli earlier,

I wanted to know what had drawn him back

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