Podcast Corner: Fascinating tale of 'Stakeknife' Scappaticci from Second Captains

Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy have teamed up with the BBC for a look at the life of an infamous IRA man who was also an informer for the British 

Alfredo Scappaticci, the IRA man known as 'Stakeknife, is the subject of a new podcast. Picture: Alan Lewis 

Four years on from Where is George Gibney?, an investigative podcast into a disgraced former swimming coach, Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy are back with a new BBC Sounds/Second Captains production. 

Stakeknife is about the double life of Freddie Scappaticci, an IRA enforcer who was a secret informant - a tout - for the British army at the height of the Troubles. His codename? Stakeknife. “Just how was one man able to lead a double life for so long,” asks a grizzled Horgan. “When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?”