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.

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

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 a Sicilian leopard, a grieving great Dane, and a novel,

the writing of which kept Samuel Beckett sane. The effect on readers is less clear-cut.

With me to introduce their good read are Nicholas Lezard, who's published two volumes of his

new statesman Down and Out column. Bitter experience has taught me,

and it gets worse. Nicholas is also theatre critic for the oldie and a long-standing columnist

for The Guardian's book pages. With him is the woman who, until last year, was controller

of radio 4 and 4 Extra, in other, my boss, Gwyneth Williams.

Guinness's previous roles at the BBC include director of the English Language World Service,

...