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 on today's program, Javier Circus, gives us his top literary picks about the Spanish Civil War,

why Quakers are such popular characters in fiction, and short story writer Chris Power

gives us a very personal highlight from his 2019 reading list.

And sticking with short stories, a tale called Catperson became one of the most widely

read pieces of fiction of 2017, shared by over four and a half million readers online after

it was published in the New Yorker magazine.

Panned by American writer Kristen Repenian, Catperson charted the half-hearted sexual encounter between Margot, a student, and older date Robert, and highlighted how feeling railroaded into sex is sometimes as much to do with embarrassment and social constructs as it is about physical force.

It clearly struck a nerve in the Me Too moment following

Harvey Weinstein's fall from grace and the refocus on blurred lines of sexual consent. Two years

on and it's been joined by 11 other short stories in Kristen Repenian's first collection,

You Know You Want This. And I'm pleased to say that Kristen joins me now.

Well, we definitely do, Kristen. There's some incredible stories contained in this volume.

Let's talk first about Cat Person, which came out in late 2017, coinciding with the Harvey Weinstein allegations, Me Too,

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