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 irony.

Steakknife.

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Hello on today's program, the internationally best-selling thriller writer Geoffrey Diva

tells us about the book he would never lend. And we go boxing in the east end of London.

But first, T.S. Eliot described April as the cruelest month. But clearly he was forgetting about January. Hats, scarves, gloves and brolleys to hand. We're about to journey deep into literary winter.

Are the days of winter's sunshine just as sad for you too?

When it is misty in the evenings and I'm out walking by myself,

it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

First the snow stopped.

The wind came up and it became freezing cold.

Finally the clouds rolled away and the moon came out.

It was a full moon and shining on all that snow made everything almost as bright as day.

No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him, no wind that blue was bitterer than he.

No falling snow was more intent upon its purpose.

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