A Good Read: John Inverdale and Rachel Cook

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From Everest's peak to a 1930s London bedsit, and a painfully funny portrait of a literary marriage in decline. Harriett Gilbert talks books with John Inverdale and Rachel Cooke. Produced by Melvin Rickarby

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:07.9	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.0	I wouldn't even know where to start.
0:26.6	And I'm with the irony.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.9	Choosing what to watch?
0:35.5	Night after night.
0:37.0	They're flicking through. The endless searching is a nightmare. We want to watch. Night after night. They're flicking through.
0:38.7	The endless searching is a nightmare.
0:41.3	We want to help you.
0:42.7	On our brand new podcast, Off the Telly,
0:44.7	we share what we've been watching.
0:46.5	Gladiator.
0:48.3	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:51.0	Lovely.
0:51.8	Off the telly with me, Joanna Page.
0:53.9	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less searching and a lot more watching. Listen on BBC Sounds. Thanks for downloading a good read. You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.com.uk slash Radio 4.
1:11.9	Hello, welcome today, a very angry poet, a wife who's reached the end of her tether and a mountain.
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