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Good Bad Billionaire is back for a brand new season.
And this time we're shaking things up on the podcast,
looking back on the lives and fortunes of US industry titans.
From one of the founders of the American retail giant Walmart, Sam Walton.
To the aviator, filmmaker, property tycoon,
playboy and original eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes.
Simon and I are asking if they were Good Bad or just another billionaire.
That's Good Bad Dead Billionaire from the BBC World Service.
With me, Zing Zing.
And me, Simon Jack.
Listen now, search for Good Bad billionaire wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
This is The Explanation from the BBC World Service, recorded on the 7th of May.
I'm John Simpson, and you're listening to Unspun World,
where we go behind the headlines with the BBC's unmatched correspondents to find out what's really going on.
This week, what are Vladimir Putin's tactics now as the Ukraine war grinds on?
For him, war is a way of life.
And that's why I think he's brought Russia to the point where war is the only state in which his administration can exist.
Meanwhile,
Poland is getting ready for the possibility that it could be next to be invaded by Russia.