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?

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when it's out of ice cream.

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I do hope you enjoy this podcast from Radio 3's Free Thinking.

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Small is beautiful, or is it?

As Catalonia wrestles with the prospect of independence,

only the latest nation and region to want to be a state,

we discuss whether the 21st century, the century of globalisation, actually belongs to small nations,

to South Sudan, Scotland, Kurdistan, Catalonia and many, many more.

Another small nation comes into view later too. In a conversation with Michael, Kurdistan, Catalonia and many, many more.

Another small nation comes into view later too in a conversation with Mike Bartlett, writer of TV's Dr Foster.

His new play Albion, which opens at London's Almeida this evening,

is marinated in feeling about England, its past, its present and its future.

But we begin far from the country house where Albion is set, in London, where the Man Booker

Prize winner has just been announced. For those who don't know about prizes, or even try to

avoid them, the Man Booker Prize is for the best novel written in English in the last year.

But according to some, it's simply become a US and a UK neo-colonial enterprise.

Small then is no longer beautiful.

We'll come to that in a minute, but first the literary critic Alex Clark's in the radio's car,

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