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, it's lovely to be back, not least because I'm joined today by radio head bassist

Colin Greenwood, who these days also reviews books for The Spectator and by comedian Joanne McNally,

creator of one woman's show Bite Me and who's just been cast in a new comedy sketch show for ITV.

Her choice of good read

is going to take us into the painfully humorous world

of a junior doctor.

But Colin, to you first,

your suggestion for a good read is.

My suggestion is a book

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