Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng. Susan Abulhawa talks about her latest book The Blue Between Sky and Water. And, New Generation Thinker Gregory Tate shares his research into the way British writers were inspired by the figure of Napoleon.

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0:00.0	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?
0:23.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:28.9	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.3	Hello there.
0:33.4	And a musical puzzle to wet your appetite, what are the mathematics that underpin this piece of music
0:38.5	that Eugenia Cheng, senior lecturer in Pure Maths at the University of Sheffield,
0:43.5	will now play for us here in the studio, Eugenia.
1:35.7	Music I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm going to be the I'm going to I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm and I'm I'm I'm Part of Bach's prelude in G minor,
1:39.4	Eugenia, any clue on what underpins what you're playing? I actually tweeted a picture clue earlier this evening
1:43.2	in the form of a picture with four lines
1:46.0	in different colours that move around each other.
1:48.6	Uh-huh, right.
1:49.6	Well, anyone on Twitter can have a look and anyone else will possibly hear the answer to that
1:54.1	a little later on, more maths, music and recipes.
1:57.5	Also, our new generation thinker, Greg Greg Tate is researching the literary and even supernatural
2:02.7	afterlife of Napoleon Bonaparte. But first, it's December 1945, outside a Roman bathhouse
2:10.0	in the village of Bait Daras, some 30 kilometres northeast of Gaza. On a dark, cloudy December
2:16.7	evening in 1945,
2:19.7	Um Mamduh wondered in search of the moon until she found it.
2:24.1	A thin crescent tangled in the stars over Bade Dairas.
2:29.1	Suleiman was with her.
2:31.0	He always was now.
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