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 programme, we travel to 1940s Lahore and the generation of good children who dared to say no.

A literary tip for park lovers and John Banville on the little book of poems that makes his spirit sore.

It's just beautiful.

It's absolutely beautiful poetry.

And it lifts the soul.

It lifts the heart.

It lifts one.

It doesn't lift one above ordinary life.

It intensifies ordinary life.

It intensifies the sense of being human, the sense of being alive.

Uplifting stuff. That's John Banville on the book he'd never lend later in the program.

And from the ecstatic language of Rilke to a startling new adventure in futuristic vernacular.

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