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🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Mariella Frostrup talks to Evie Wyld about new novel The Bass Rock
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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. |
0:08.0 | 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? |
0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:33.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:45.2 | Come over to the window, my little dog. |
0:53.3 | I'd like to try to read your home. I used to think I'd like to read your home I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy |
1:01.0 | before I let you take me home |
1:10.0 | now so long, |
1:12.6 | Maryland |
1:14.6 | Definitely one of my desert island discs. |
1:17.6 | Hello, today we escape to the sun-kissed shores of Hedra |
1:21.6 | To relive the budding love affair between Leonard Cohen |
1:24.6 | and his muse, the Norwegian beauty Marianne Elan. |
1:28.7 | But it's not all romance and bazookies softly strumming. |
1:32.9 | First up, taking its title from another island, an uninhabited one in the Firth of Fourth. |
1:38.1 | Evie Wilde's third novel, The Bass Rock, continues the exploration of loss and trauma. |
1:43.9 | She embarked on with her award-winning debut |
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