A Good Read: Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik
Books and Authors
BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, and broadcaster Katie Puckrik talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. They include the highly-praised A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, the devastating Watching the Door - Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers and Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Produced by Beth O'Dea.
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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, and I'm with the irony. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:37.1 | My name's Linda Davies, and I |
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| 1:08.7 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 1:10.8 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.com.uk slash radio four. |
| 1:18.8 | Hello, welcome to one of those programmes where you think, |
| 1:21.4 | how could three books be so different? |
| 1:23.7 | Although maybe they do all have a certain kind of anger in common. |
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