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🗓️ 12 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Carlos Acosta shares his Five of the Best Books and Victoria Hislop on where she writes.
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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. |
0:07.9 | 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? |
0:24.7 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
0:31.6 | I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the area. Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:40.0 | This is a download from the BBC. To find out more, visit BBC.com.ukuk slash radio four. |
0:44.4 | Hello on today's program we ask, who's your favourite heroine? |
0:50.7 | Heaven did not seem to be my home. And the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on top of Wutheran Heights, where I woke, sobbing for joy. |
0:56.3 | If God has gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you |
1:00.6 | to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. |
1:04.5 | So did you side with the tempestuous Cathy Earnshaw or the pragmatic Jane Eyre? |
1:09.3 | I'll be finding out if favoured female characters from our youth |
1:12.3 | passed the test of time. |
1:14.5 | And Victoria Hislop reveals where she can be found during writing hours. |
1:19.3 | But first, a ballet dancer extraordinaire, |
1:22.1 | whose tenure with the Royal Ballet |
1:23.5 | enticed a whole raft of new female fans to the art form. |
1:28.0 | As a boy, he preferred football, but was forced by his father to attend ballet classes |
1:32.2 | in the hope that dancing would prove his passport out of poverty in his native Cuba. |
1:37.2 | Reluctant, though he was, Carlos Acosta surpassed his father's wildest dreams, |
1:42.1 | becoming one of the world's best-known ballet dancers, and even |
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