In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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Today we've got sinister goings on in the Scottish Highlands,

murderous goings on in Regents Park,

and racial unrest in 1940s Harlem.

With me to share their good read are Kamal Ahmed,

editorial director of BBC News,

and author of the recent memoir,

The Life and Times of a Very British Man,

which comes out in paperback this spring.

And with Kamal, the naturalist and broadcaster Brett Westwood, presenter of a number of radio

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