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 IRA.

Steakknife.

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Hello, today, Open Book adds its voice to the multitude here on Radio 4, marking the momentous 20th century moment that was the partition of India.

Regular listeners may have heard our ambitious day-long dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's Booker of Booker's Midnight's Children,

a novel that opened 70 years ago as the clock struck midnight and Pakistan was born.

Since then, a whole new generation of writers on both sides of that border

have grown up with the legacy of the split, from Aravinda Digaiga to Arandati Roy, Mosin Hamid to my guest

next week, Carmel Oshamsey. To reflect on the literary fallout of partition, I'm joined now

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