Central Intelligence: Series 1: Episode 10
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 32 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 (Ed Harris), Richard Helms (Johnny Flynn).
In Episode 10, emboldened by success in Iran, CIA boss Allen Dulles turns his attention to Guatemala, where the socialist-leaning reforms of President Arbenz are having a negative impact on US interests. If a popular uprising can be engineered, the spread of socialism amongst America’s neighbours can be nipped in the bud. But short-term wins can lead to unforeseen consequences.
Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Kermit Roosevelt..........Rob Benedict President Eisenhower..........Kerry Shale Foster Dulles..........Nathan Osgood Al Haney..........Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Richard Bissell..........Philip Desmeules Tracy Barnes..........Adam Sina Arbenz..........Walles Hamonde David Philips..........Wayne Forester Office Junior ..........Natasha Arancini
Original music is 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
ANNOUNCEMENT - Series 2 of CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE will be released in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This episode contains very strong language. |
| 0:09.4 | And if we don't do this, all of us will feel the country. |
| 0:13.7 | In 2015, when Joe Biden was vice president, he found himself addressing the leaders of half a dozen |
| 0:20.3 | Central American countries from a conference hall in Guatemala City. |
| 0:24.6 | We're here today because this is a moment of genuine opportunity. |
| 0:28.6 | I can't think of a time when the opportunity has been so great. |
| 0:33.6 | To roll back corruption, to attract billions of dollars, foreign direct investment. |
| 0:40.3 | They want to come here. Corporate America wants to come. The rest of the world wants to come. |
| 0:48.3 | But you have to end once and for all the climate of endemic violence and poverty. |
| 0:58.6 | Could Biden really lecture Central American governments on violence and poverty? |
| 1:04.8 | Did he really believe America had absolutely no hand in creating that situation? I'm Eloise Page, and you're listening to Central Intelligence, my life inside the CIA. |
| 1:20.4 | Episode 10. |
| 1:21.3 | If those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, peace and stability cannot prevent. |
| 1:29.3 | Mr. President. |
| 1:30.3 | How we got you. |
| 1:34.3 | How we got you. |
| 1:42.3 | Come in, gentlemen. |
| 1:43.3 | Mr. President. Sorry to keep you Uh, come in, gentlemen. |
| 1:47.0 | Mr. President. Sorry to keep you waiting. |
| 1:49.0 | In the afterglow of our success in Iran, |
| 1:52.0 | CIA director, Mr. Alan Dulles, turned his attention to... |
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