Central Intelligence: Series 1: Episode 4

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 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 influential figures. 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) and Richard Helms (Johnny Flynn).

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In Episode 4, with failures mounting, a US war hero is appointed to shake up the CIA. But there is a spy hiding in plain sight.

Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Clover Dulles..........Laurel Lefkow General Bedell-Smith..........Kerry Shale Kim Philby..........Rufus Wright James Jesus Angleton..........Philip Desmeules Virginia Hall..........Jennifer Armour President Truman..........Eric Meyers Admiral Hillenkoetter..........Matthew Marsh Colonel Smiley..........Wayne Forester David Lilienthal..........Adam Sina Macy Dulles..........Will Hislop Bido..........Andi Jashy

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: Created by Greg Haddrick & Jeremy Fox Episode 4 written by Felicity Packard 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.
0:05.4	This episode contains very strong language.
0:08.8	Well, I joined the agency in 1980.
0:10.7	There were things that I saw that I very much admired.
0:14.3	This is John Brennan, the director of CIA from 2013 to 2017.
0:19.7	The guile, the risk-taking, the courage, the intellect of CIA officers.
0:26.9	But there are also things that I saw that really made me quite concerned about the types of things
0:31.8	that maybe CIA officers were involved in. My sentiments, exactly. Which brings me back to 1949 and the aftermath of the first disastrous Albanian operation.
0:43.3	A week or two later, when the dust settled, it wasn't quite as bad as we'd first believed.
0:50.3	They didn't all die.
0:52.3	No, Kim.
0:53.3	Not was the initial report, but we've only been able to confirm six.
0:57.8	As our world heavyweight champion of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton reported to his MI6 counterpart, Kim Filby, over yet another five-hour lunch at Harvey's.
1:10.3	And there's a vague rumor that two of them made it across the border into Greece,
1:14.2	which leaves one missing.
1:17.7	Missing?
1:19.2	A double agent, you think?
1:21.7	Could be.
1:22.9	If the Albanian army knew where they were going to land
1:25.2	and what town they were heading for,
1:27.2	someone told them something.
1:29.1	But I ran background checks on all of them.
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