4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Max Porter discusses his new novel Lanny.
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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? |
0:21.4 | 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. |
0:37.4 | If you come down to the woods today, it's fairy tale, radio, podcasts. |
0:42.3 | If you come down to the woods today, it's fairy tale, myth and magic you'll find, |
0:45.6 | as Open Book explores folks' literary resurgence. |
0:46.6 | And... It was all a dream. |
0:48.0 | I used to read Word Up magazine. |
0:50.2 | Salt and pepper and heavy D up in the limousine. |
0:52.8 | Hanging pictures on my wall |
0:54.2 | Every Saturday rap attack Mr Magic Molly Mall |
0:57.2 | From the lore of the forest to the law of the streets |
1:00.4 | YA sensation Angie Thomas, author of The Hate You Give |
1:03.6 | On how hip-hop provided the foundation stones for her stories |
1:07.4 | But we begin with one of the most anticipated novels of 2019. |
1:12.1 | The follow-up to the prize-winning and rapturously received, |
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