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.

Hello, with me today, the actor Jason Watkins, Harold Wilson in the Crown,

D. DS Dodds in MacDonald and Dodds,

and Dennis Nilsson's biographer Brian Masters in The Chilling Des with David Tennant. And that's

just in the last couple of years. If I listed every TV show in which Jason's appeared, we'll be here

till tomorrow. With Jason is the equally prolific Yasmin Alibi Brown, author and award-winning columnist for, among others, the I-Nuspaper and the Sunday Times magazine.

Yasmin's books include Refusing the Veil, in Defence of Political Correctness, and most recently, Ladies Who Punch.

She is also co-founder of the charity, British Muslims for Secular Democracy.

Jason Watkins, could I ask you to start us off?

What are you recommending as a good read?

Well, I'm recommending Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov.

It's a book I read many years ago,

and maybe it's changed a little bit in my mind since I've reread it. And of course, Nabokov. It's a book I read many years ago, and maybe it's changed a little bit

in my mind since I'm, as I've reread it. And of course, Nabokov has a certain reputation,

let's say, but for me, it's a thrilling book of great wit and dexterity in terms of writing,

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