Central Intelligence: Series 2: Episode 3

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The story of the CIA, told from the inside out by veteran agent Eloise Page. Starring Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn.

In Episode 3… 1956. Stalin is dead, and Khrushchev is breaking ranks. As whispers of a bold speech ripple through Soviet circles, Eisenhower gives CIA chief Allen Dulles one mission: get the speech - at any cost.

Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Richard Bissell..........Ian Porter Clover Dulles..........Laurel Lefkow James Jesus Angleton..........Philip Desmeules President Eisenhower..........Kerry Shale John Foster Dulles..........Nathan Osgood General Mike O’Daniel..........Ian Porter Koca Popovic..........Branko Tomović Blokhintsev..........Phillipe Bosher

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

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 Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Paul Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Flynn Hallman Marc Graue Sound Engineers, LA: Juan Martin del Campo & Tony Diaz

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	Welcome to Limelight.
0:02.6	Episodes are released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts.
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0:18.2	This episode contains very strong language.
0:26.0	Three years had passed since the death of Stalin, and still the world waited, wondering which way the Soviets would go. One thing was for sure.
0:35.9	They hadn't stopped rearming after the Second World War.
0:39.3	But what we didn't know was what they were planning.
0:43.3	Maybe they didn't know either. It was 1956.
0:47.3	Eisenhower answers America.
0:49.3	An election year.
0:50.3	Eisenhower strikes me as a fundamentally peaceful man, and I think that he knows enough about
0:57.0	war that he would do practically anything honorable to keep us out of them.
1:03.0	And our director, Alan Dulles, knew that to keep his job, CIA had to get things right.
1:09.0	No mistakes. Not this year.
1:11.7	We could not stumble into a war.
1:14.5	Our intelligence had to be right on target.
1:18.5	But deep in the gulags of Siberia, unknown to us at the time,
1:24.1	the winds of change were blowing.
1:30.0	Gladys South Kamunka, The winds of change were blowing. Vladislav Khmudka?
1:31.6	Yeah?
1:33.0	What about you?
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