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, the great Dutch novel. No, really, we investigate the phenomenon of Benita Avenue.

And Will Self tells us about his room with not much of a view.

It's not particularly quiet here, it's not particularly nice.

The view is of a kind of alley into the councillor's state opposite, and that's fine. I'm not

really bothered about that. It just so happens that I've written here pretty inconsistently for

about the last 18 years. More from Mr Self later.

But first, Sadie Jones, whose debut, The Outcast,

the story of a broken young man set in the repressed 50s,

won a Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2008.

Her new novel, her fourth Fallout, also looks to the past, but this time to the world of radical theatre in London in the 60s and 70s,

a period that produced great playwrights like Harold Pinter and Carol Churchill,

and experimental theatres like the Donmar Warehouse and Royal Court.

Into this feckoned world of opportunity and ideas, step four characters, aspiring

playwright Luke, would-be producer Paul, actress Nina and feisty feminist stage manager

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