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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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

Hello, today I'm joined by comedian and writer Dom Jolly, creator of the Hidden Camera series Trigger Happy TV and a multitude of other TV programmes including Fool

Britannia. His directed music videos, writes and presents the podcast Earworm, and his most

recent book, The Hezbollah Hiking Club has just been published.

With Dom is the novelist and storywriter Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat,

The Doll Funeral, and now also just published, Crushed.

Dom Jolly, would you start? What is your choice of a good read?

I went with conversations with my agent by Rob Long. It's very difficult to write about comedy.

One of the things I dislike about comedy is comedy analysis. I think it kind of ruins it.

Comedy is either funny or it isn't, it's subjective. But I wish I'd read this book.

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