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, welcome. Today's slees, violence and corruption in the USA, revolution in South Africa,

adulterous passion in 19th century Germany. And here to introduce their choice of a good read are the dramatist Mark

Ravenhill, currently playwright in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and whose works

include most recently the Voltaire-inspired Candide, also pool, no water, mother-claps Molly House,

and the one with the title, I can't repeat on air, but let's just say it's about sex and shopping.

Mark's currently writing a libretto for the Norwegian National Opera.

And talking of music here with Mark is the music journalist and broadcaster Nihal Athenica, otherwise known as DJ Nihal,

who broadcasts on BBC Radio One and the BBC Asian Network has appeared on a variety of TV arts programmes and DJ's festivals and club gigs, including his own club night.

Nihal, why don't you kick things off by telling us what your choice of a good read is?

My choice of a good read is James Elroy's American tabloid, a book that is racist,

homophobic, anti-Semitic, violent in the extreme and a brilliant read. It is based around

the events that lead up to the Kennedy assassination, the Bay of Pigs,

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