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Our Dirty War: The British State and the IRA

Secret killer and super-spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor to revisit the brutal covert war between Britain and the IRA. Chilling tapes and victims reflect the horror.

Stakeknife was a super-spy, a secret agent working for both the British and the IRA. He walked a precarious tightrope in an undercover war where exposure meant death. Operation Kenova, the long-running investigation into Stakeknife and the so-called dirty war, which is now coming to a close, brings Peter Taylor back to Northern Ireland. He revisits the chilling IRA interrogation tapes he initially uncovered and talks again to grieving families devasted by the loss of their loved ones to the IRA’s brutal interrogators and killers.

29 minutes

Last on

Sun 10 Mar 202415:30

Credits

RoleContributor
ReporterPeter Taylor
ProducerRichard Newman
EditorGwyneth Jones
Assistant EditorChris Thornton

Broadcasts

  • Tue 5 Mar 202422:40
  • Wed 6 Mar 202422:00
  • Thu 7 Mar 202423:15
  • Sat 9 Mar 202403:30
  • Sat 9 Mar 202418:30
  • Sun 10 Mar 202402:30
  • Sun 10 Mar 202415:30