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, the first British invasion of Afghanistan, the author William Dalrymple's been telling me why he took to exploring a great British misadventure.

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We'll be discussing how to survive in the workplace jungle with Oliver James,

author of a new guide on the politics of the office.

And if you're feeling nostalgic for Paris in the 1920s, well, you're not alone.

Where are it my moulin of the place blanche?

My tabah and my bistro du coin.

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and his Parisian peers later on.

But first, as the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai

visits London for talks about Britain's withdrawal

in the coming year,

he's been reading a book whose parallels might seem eerily appropriate.

William Dalrymple, whose best-selling works on India have revised much colonial history,

has turned his attention to the ill-fated invasion by British forces of Afghanistan back in 1839.

They captured Kabul in the spring of that year, and installed Shah Shuzha as a puppet ruler.

A mere three years later, the invasion had turned to humiliating defeat,

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