Central Intelligence: Series 1: Episode 9

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 30 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), Richard Helms (Johnny Flynn).

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In Episode 9, when news starts to trickle through that the coup in Iran has failed, the CIA’s man on the ground, Kim Roosevelt (Rob Benedict), goes rogue to try to turn things around.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Kermit Roosevelt..........Rob Benedict General Fazlollah Zahedi..........Dana Haqjoo Nasiri & General Riahi..........Bijan Daneshmand Queen Soraya..........Isabella Nefar The Shah..........Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy Assadollah Rashidian..........Adam Sina Rocky Stone..........Akie Kotabe Clover Dulles..........Laurel Lefkow Clare Boothe Luce..........Jennifer Armour Bellboy..........Will Hislop

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.5	1953, United States Embassy, Tehran.
0:10.5	We're all excitedly awaiting news of CIA's first great success.
0:17.2	News that was going to be delivered by our very own American-friendly handpicked stooge, General Fazlola Zahidi.
0:29.6	Friends and fellow patriots, I have the decrees.
0:33.6	Signed? Wait, actually signed.
0:36.6	See for yourself.
0:40.6	I don't believe it.
0:42.6	Where's Colonel Nasiri?
0:44.6	What's the time?
0:46.0	Nine o'clock? At this very moment, he'll be throwing Mossadee's man, General Riyahi, up against his front door, and hauling his ass off to jail.
0:57.0	My man's mansion is Mossadegh. General Riyahy up against his front door and hauling his afts off to jail. Unfortunately, General Riyahy wasn't home. In fact, no one wasn't home. In fact, no one was.
1:15.1	What do you want to do?
1:17.5	Minimanzal of Nakhuz-Lazir, must add.
1:23.9	So Colonel Niziri drove his battune across town
1:30.3	to the gates of Prime Minister Mossadee's residence.
1:34.3	There were no guards outside and the place was in darkness.
1:38.3	Be it, it's all right?
1:40.3	What are you?
1:41.3	What are we, Gourvan?
1:43.3	Sardosur, Radeef. Go. Let, go. Let's, go. Let's jadeun, go. What? What we are we, Gauru? What do we? RADIFT-BORRADIF.
1:45.0	Let's.
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