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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In tonight's programme, Dr Pandlos gets his musical comeuppance, as Candide opens at the Mernier Chocolate Factory in London.

We'll be prising open literary letters and asking what the outpourings reveal about the authors.

And can you remember this band, the clues in the title?

We'll be revealing that later. But first, the Turner Prize. It's an event which tends to be damned if it produces examples to shock.

Remember that perfectly pickled shock, yet complained about when it fails to rouse critics to ire.

Well, this year, the result was announced for the first time outside England in Derry-Londonderry,

and the winner is L'Ore Pruvo, a filmmaker and

installation artist who fabricated the story of a famous grandfather with an homage to Kurt

Schwittes along the way. She beat a posse of contenders, ranging from Tino Segal, whose work

featured volunteers using synchronized moves before randomly accosting passes by.

The Penet, excuse me, the painter Lynette Yadam Wurge and David Shrigley's mordant observations

on everyday British life. The Times art critic Rachel Campbell Johnson is a veteran of many

a turner-shabang, and she joins me on the line from Norwich.

What kind of a year was this and were you pleased with the outcome, Rachel?

Well, this was very much the most engaging show we've seen for a long time, but I mean that

in a very, very literal sense. It involved an awful lot of participation and there was only one

of the shortlisted artists

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