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? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

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On tonight's programme, social media, a current phrase that trips off our tongues.

It's as old as that Roman senator Cicero, as revolutionary as Christianity.

So says the author of a new book, we discuss soon. And I talk with a much

applauded photographer who suckered me into being part of her exhibition.

Why don't we continue? No, listen, wouldn't it be great that we sit there and we keep talking.

I'm always happy to talk.

And people come and then they leave.

But this is sort of part of the work.

Dianita sing and more from her later.

Also Verdi and Shakespeare.

We ask why the composer turned Lady Macbeth into a fiend,

why he gave the dying Macbeth an aria and what he made of Shakespeare more generally.

We do this later, but we begin elsewhere

with graffiti on the walls of Rome

and how Luther's thesis went viral,

antecedents, according to Tom Standage,

of what we call social media.

The argument of his new book is that we may think social media refers to Twitter and Facebook,

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