Central Intelligence: Series 2: Episode 4

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BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 30 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.

As Egypt’s Nasser seizes the Suez Canal, global powers scramble. The British want control back. The Soviets move in. And the CIA races to keep Egypt from slipping behind the Iron Curtain. In the shadow games of empire, Eloise Page watches the balance of power shift.

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 Addy Hawkins..........Carlyss Peer Prime Minister Eden..........Rufus Wright Elizabeth..........Laurel Lefkow Queen Frederika..........Marina Koem

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	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	This episode contains very strong language.
0:08.0	We meet at a time of great tension
0:13.0	between the United States and Muslims around the world.
0:17.0	This was President Obama, addressing the Egyptian audience at Cairo University in 2009.
0:22.6	The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of coexistence and cooperation,
0:29.6	but also conflict and religious wars.
0:32.6	It was a year in which the revenue from the Suez Canal gave Egypt $4.7 billion.
0:39.8	In a Cold War, in which Muslim majority countries were too often treated as proxies.
0:46.1	But it very nearly could have been so different.
0:49.3	Without regard to their own aspirations.
0:58.4	Thank you. to their own aspirations. I'm Eloise Page, and you are listening to Central Intelligence,
1:03.2	the story of my life inside the CIA.
1:06.6	Season 2, episode 4.
1:08.8	For all Americans, I say,
1:10.4	the supreme national efforts will be needed.
1:12.9	The news is in the sky, a 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a...
1:17.8	A terrorist tyrant and thought.
1:22.2	The United States has committed no relation.
1:26.9	The fallout from our decision to openly publish the Khrushchev's speech that trashed Stalin would continue over the rest of 1956, as would a few other issues.
1:39.0	I've decided it's time Clover and I took a world tour.
1:42.3	Which Alan Dulles made clear when he invited Richard and Frank to lunch at Washington's
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