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

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Hello, I'm Philip Dodd, and thanks for joining us for this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast,

in which I'm asking what happens to national universities in a globalised age,

and what exactly happens to the humanities, coming up just after this short message.

Hi, I'm Alistair Sook, and I want to tell you about the way I see it, a brand new podcast from BBC Radio 3.

It's a 30-part series in which we're throwing open the collection at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York,

to some of the sharpest creative minds of our time. We'll be speaking

to comedian Steve Martin, writer Roxanne Gay, musician Steve Reich, and many, many more.

I'll be your guide throughout the series, so join me as I explore one of the greatest

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for The Way I See It on BBC Sounds. Hello, once universities helped to turn the world upside down.

Now, a globalised world is turning universities upside down.

Increasingly reliant on overseas students can universities plausibly claim they serve their national constituency.

After all, there are now more Chinese students studying in the UK than students from Northern Ireland.

And universities across the Western world trumpet their desire to develop a global curriculum to complement the international profile of their students.

And at the same time, whether in the UK or US, there is serious evidence that the humanities,

English, French, German, history and philosophy are suffering

a catastrophic decline. Mixing new private providers of higher education and new ways of providing

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