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

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. This is a download

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We're back. Did you miss us? I missed you. Yes, I did. Every night at 10 o'clock, I just had to talk to myself about neuroscience and Victorian transvestites and Mexican revolutionary art. So, in the words of Fred from Brief Encounter, thank you for coming

back. And if you've never heard the program before, let me tell you what the next 45 minutes

will bring. You'll hear about Francis Bacon and Henry Moore and what happens when you put

screaming popes and standing nudes in a room together. You'll hear how artificial intelligence

is much, much stranger than anyone

could have predicted. And Wilkie Collins's new biographer will tell us how it felt to be the author

of the woman in white, lover of laudanum, lover of more than one partner at a time. First, though,

what has the theatre ever done for women? Can you tell me, my man, which are the ones that make the disturbances?

The one that's doing the talking, she's the disturbingest of the lot.

Not that nice little.

There'll be less likelihood of war.

But that's not to say women can't fight.

The Boer women did.

The Russian women face conflicts worse than any battlefield can show.

But our part has been to go about after you men in wartime and pick up the pieces.

Zoe Tapper leading the cheers in votes for women. Elizabeth Robbins' play about the suffrage movement, premiered at the

Royal Court Theatre in 1907 and revived this Sunday on Radio 3 as part of a series of plays

reflecting the struggles of early 20th century feminism. Robbins wrote the play in response to Ibsen.

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