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

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On tonight's programme Nightwaves asks, not what's happening in Turkey's streets and squares, but what are the causes of the present discontents?

We'll let a whiff of history into the arguments.

And what do a comedian and a theologian

have to say about the father of existentialism?

Sir and Kirkegaard, the Danish philosopher born 200 years ago this year,

who said things such as...

People understand me so poorly

that they don't even understand my complaint about them,

not understanding me.

Oh, Kierkegaard later, but first, the First World War, the Slade School of Art in Bloomsbury,

and a group of artists educated there in the early part of the 20th century.

The ingredients of a new exhibition opening in Dulwich, just as Britain again gears up to remember World War I.

Next year is the 100th anniversary. The artist ranged from David Bomberg, a painter from London's

East End who was Jewish. Paul Nash, son of a Kensington barrister, Stanley, Spencer Child of

of Cookham and Wesleyan Chapel Going, and Dora Carrington, daughter of an East India engineer.

The work of each of these English artists and others

was forged anew by the events of the First World War,

and several of them, including Nash and Spencer,

...