"No army can be compared with the power of an idea whose time has come." French writer Victor Hugo understood that ideas born at a proper time produce ideas shattering the universe, ideas that are doomed to be great. But greatness can be of different nature: great and beautiful, great and ugly, great and scary. A great idea may have all these qualities, thus producing admiration, disgust, or fear. This radio program presents various great ideas.

The Austrian philosopher Karl Popper once noticed: "The attempt to create Paradise on earth inevitably leads to the creation of Hell." Since the time of Plato, there has been no shortage of prophets, mystics and insane people who composed their own versions of a new world, sowed hope for a better future, and displayed the infinity of human stupidity.

