Central Intelligence, Series 1: Episode 1
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most powerful women. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as well as portraying her relationships with early CIA leaders, Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. A major new audio drama series starring Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn.
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In Episode 1, tensions with Russia in war-torn Europe, and a letter found in Hitler’s safe…
Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia General Vyshinsky..........Matthew Marsh Erna Flegwel..........Sarah Alles-Shahkarami Princess Tanda..........Isabella Nefar Antoine Guerini..........Walles Hamonde Tom Polgar..........Jamie Bogyo Nadia..........Arita Sadiku
Original music by Sacha Puttnam
Production: Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox Sound Designers & Editors: John Scott Dryden, Adam Woodhams, Martha Littlehailes & Andreina Gomez Casanova Script Consultant: Misha Kawnel Script Supervisor: Alex Lynch Trails: Jack Soper Archive Research: Andy Goddard & Alex Lynch Production Assistant: Jo Troy Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Flynn Hallman Marc Graue Sound Engineers, LA: Juan Martin del Campo & Tony Diaz Margarita Mix, Santa Monica Sound Engineer, LA: Bruce Bueckert Mirrortone Sound Engineers, NY: Collin Stanley Dwarzski & James Quesada
Director: John Scott Dryden Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn. Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | I loved America. |
| 0:08.0 | Not because we were great. |
| 0:11.0 | Maybe we were, maybe we weren't, I don't know. |
| 0:14.0 | I loved America because we were good. |
| 0:17.0 | You can be proud of being good. |
| 0:20.0 | And for a long time, our values were good. |
| 0:23.6 | Even when they led to ill-advised actions. |
| 0:26.6 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:30.6 | This is Joe Biden, America's 46 president, |
| 0:33.6 | addressing the nation in August 2021. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to speak today to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan. |
| 0:42.0 | In case anyone's already forgotten, the unfolding situation was a chaotic mess. |
| 0:51.4 | But I want to remind everyone how we got here. |
| 0:57.0 | And that's exactly what I will be doing too. |
| 0:59.0 | We want to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals. |
| 1:04.0 | Get those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and make sure al-Qaida could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. |
| 1:14.8 | According to Biden, therefore, how we got here begins with a response to a foreign attack on American soil. |
| 1:22.4 | And I agree. |
| 1:24.2 | But the foreign attack he's talking about is 9-11. |
| 1:27.8 | The one I'm talking about was earlier. |
| 1:32.3 | Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. |
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