Central Intelligence, Series 1: Trailer

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 3 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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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.3	I'm Kim Ketrault, and I want to tell you about my new podcast from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.7	The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.
0:16.5	It's about the CIA, but not as you know it.
0:19.8	By naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
0:24.6	On December 7th, 1941, the U.S. suffered its worst domestic attack of the 20th century.
0:31.0	Japan, like its infamous access partners, struck first.
0:34.1	He's got to convince Congress to give him an open checkbook now.
0:38.3	He has to fund intelligence.
0:40.3	Determined never to allow another Pearl Harbor to happen,
0:43.3	the Central Intelligence Agency is established in 1947
0:47.3	to ensure America will always have foreknowledge of its enemy's plans,
0:52.3	whoever they are. We got some results back this morning that are so abnormal.
1:02.0	They can only be explained by one event.
1:05.0	The Russians probably will end up being a biggest adversary.
1:08.0	I am, an amputee.
1:10.0	But considering I finally escaped the Gestapa by walking 100 miles over the Pyrenees,
1:14.7	I rather think I'm behind a desk because of my vagina, sir.
1:18.3	You go, Mr. America.
1:20.1	No!
1:21.0	Hey, those are stop!
1:23.4	They can't publicly sanction a covert plan to influence the result of a foreign election.
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