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. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

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Hello, on today's programme as climbers fight it out to reach the summit of Everest, we scale literary heights to discuss the allure of mountain literature.

And, when it came to loving, he knew which Daisy to pick.

Jay Gatsby, as you've never seen him before, we'll find out which classic novels have had a

Pulp Fiction makeover later in the program.

But first, following up on a debut that bagged the Pulitzer Prize is no mean feat, but it was

the unavoidable challenge set Jumper Laieri, whose interpreter of maladies subsequently became

a bestseller.

She appears to have lived up to those heightened expectations as 13 years later,

her second novel has now landed her on the booker shortlist.

A family saga of sorts, the lowland zooms in on a less-traumled passage in Indian history.

The Naxalite movement, a peasant rebellion which was inspired by

communist China and began in the village of Naxilbury in 1967.

Following the fortunes of two brothers, Subash and Udayan, it traces the legacy of a doomed

young man's idealism on those he leaves in his wake.

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