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 program, from war to peace, a literary dispatch from Sarajevo's

Museum of Literature and Theatre, and a fresh look at an African writer who was among

the very first to receive international acclaim.

All kinds of snakes, centipedes and flies were living on every part of his body.

Bees, wasps and uncountable mosquitoes were also flying around him,

and it was hard to see him plainly because of these flies and insects.

But immediately, this dreadful ghost came inside this house from heaven knows where.

His smell and also the smell of his body first drove us to a long distance

before we came back after a few minutes.

His name is smelling ghost.

More on Amos Tutuola and his pioneering writing later in the programme.

But first, alienated young men occupy a prominent place in the British novel,

particularly in its post-war and comic incarnations.

Just think of Lucky Jim and High Fidelity.

But each generation faces entirely different challenges

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