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Limelight

Central Intelligence: Series 2: Episode 6

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4604 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 32 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 6… It’s 1957 and the Agency’s legendary spymaster Frank Wisner, haunted by his own unravelling mind, is desperate to keep Indonesia from slipping into the Soviet sphere. His solution - a sordid blackmail plot involving a fake X-rated film meant to ruin President Sukarno’s reputation and shatter his hold on power.

But as the plan spirals into chaos, Frank’s fragile sanity teeters on the brink – revealing the high human cost of America’s shadow wars and the secret toll they take on those sworn to fight them from the inside out.

Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia President Eisenhower..........Kerry Shale John Foster Dulles..........Nathan Osgood Billie Monroe..........Valentina Arena Alfred Ulmer..........Walles Hamonde Bill Parker..........Patrick Poletti Queen of Greece..........Marina Koem Colonel Joop..........Ferandi Yennas Allen Pope ..........Greg Lockett

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,

0:05.5

but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now,

0:09.1

first on BBC Sounds.

0:13.6

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:17.6

This episode contains very strong language.

0:23.6

It was often said of Bill Clinton, he was a hard dog to keep on the porch.

0:30.2

But he was far from the first male leader to have sexual relations outside of wedlock.

0:37.5

As far back as 46 BC,

0:40.7

Julia Caesar proudly introduced his new girlfriend, Cleopatra,

0:44.7

to everyone in Rome, including his wife, Calpurnia.

0:49.4

That was brave.

0:51.7

But it wasn't in the end what really cost him his job.

0:56.1

Even in 2024, when Joe Biden said Donald Trump had been in court on several scandalous charges.

1:04.0

Or molesting a woman in public for doing a whole range of things of having sex with a porn star

1:10.0

on the night

1:11.0

while your wife was pregnant.

1:13.3

I mean, you have the morals on an alley cat.

1:15.8

No damage.

1:16.8

It was all just water off the public's back.

1:20.9

Sometimes even the smartest people,

1:23.4

and Frank Wisner was smart,

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