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, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell shares the book he would never lend.

And the immigration laws that divided Oklahoma, Rilla asked you, on fictionalising the cataclysms to hit her home state.

But first, summer is finally upon us.

It was that gracious hour of a summer afternoon, midway between luncheon and tea,

when nature seemed to unbutton its waistcoat and put its feet up.

Woodhouse's description of a genteel, countryside slumbering during a summer afternoon

is probably one of the more benign depictions of this season in stories,

and one that reflects the lovely run of sunshine we're having at the moment.

Summer in English literature has appeared in many guises

and inspired a multitude of authors in myriad ways.

From the promise of a new life and the bounty of the British season in Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Spring flew swiftly by and

summer came. And if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and

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