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, 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 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.

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Hello and welcome to one of the highlights of the cultural calendar,

an event that will, I'm sure, at some point in the future,

become a UNESCO World Heritage Site,

the announcement of the winners of this year's Prom's Poetry Competition.

Joining me here on stage today at Imperial College in London and my fellow judges, the Makar,

the National Poets of Scotland, Jackie Kaye and Judith Palmer

from the Poetry Society,

our associates on the competition this year.

And the actor Stella Gonne will be reading the winning entries

and our winners.

Let me remind you of the rules.

There were two categories, 12 to 18 years old and 19 plus. And to enter, you had to write a poem inspired by a piece of music performed at this year's prom's concerts. And inspired by could be interpreted as widely as you like. The poem could be about the actual act of listening to the work, either live or on the radio. It could perhaps encapsulate the

feelings or memories the music evokes, or the point could be an attempt to recreate the music

in language. So let's start by hearing one of the runners-up in the over-18 category, John Scrivenza's

Small Song for a Lark, inspired by Rayaff von Williams' The Lark Ascending.

I know this piece.

I can recite each beat.

Time signatures I grasp, but even so, these accidentals took so long to know,

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