Summary
Mark travels to where Freddie Scappaticci lived after he disappeared from Belfast. A news report we featured from 1987 inspires a man to get in touch with the podcast.
Credits
Reporter: Mark Horgan Produced and written by: Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy Co-Producer: Paddy Fee Editing and Sound Design: Ciarán Cassidy Composer: Michael Fleming Sound mixing: Ger McDonnell Theme tune by Lankum Artwork by Conor Merriman Assistant Commissioners for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna and Sarah Green. Commissioning Editor for BBC: Dylan Haskins
Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | You're about to listen to a brand new episode of Steakknife, the second series of cover. |
| 0:09.6 | Episodes are released weekly, wherever you get your podcast, but if you're in the UK, |
| 0:13.1 | you can listen to the latest episodes right now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:17.5 | And this episode contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting and some occasional |
| 0:21.8 | strong language. Episode 10, Frank. I'm in a hotel in Belfast, walking down a quiet corridor on my |
| 0:36.2 | way to meet someone, a person and a family |
| 0:39.0 | directly connected to Freddy's Capitici. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi, yeah, sorry. |
| 0:48.3 | This meeting came about due to a strange coincidence earlier in the series. |
| 0:53.7 | In our first episode, there was a section about the culture of informers throughout the troubles. |
| 0:59.1 | Anne Cadwallader, the journalist, spoke about this culture and the dirty intelligence war. |
| 1:05.4 | It was just horrible. The whole thing, the whole history and background and context of informers, agents, |
| 1:14.7 | double agents, triple agents, people lying to their friends, their families, their community |
| 1:20.4 | in order to protect their own skins and the state taking advantage of that. |
| 1:25.9 | I found that whole scenario repulsive. |
| 1:32.3 | Directly after Anne spoke, there were two pieces of archive, |
| 1:36.3 | the first family voices of alleged informers that you heard in this series. |
| 1:41.3 | My brother was no informer. |
| 1:45.6 | He knew nothing about the provisional IRA. |
| 1:48.4 | My brother was never an informer. |
| 1:54.1 | He's not... |
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