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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Today we're travelling in the timeline of black British literature,

discussing a series of newly reissued books that, in the words of their curator, Bernardine Everisto, seeks to correct historical bias in British publishing.

Ayenka Marethway, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer, takes us back to her boarding school in Nigeria and reveals the book, or, as it turns out, books that should never lend.

But first, a new book with an old soul.

2021 has barely begun but already.

Open Water by Caleb Azuma Nelson has been hotly tipped as the debut of the year.

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