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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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 9… After the Bay of Pigs disaster, JFK demands accountability - CIA Director Allen Dulles is out. In his place, chaos brews. Enter Ed Lansdale, the CIA’s eccentric covert action operative, tasked with a bold mission - kill Castro by any means necessary.
Exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, and psychological warfare take centre stage, as Richard Helms watches his long-game strategy inch closer to deadly execution.
Cast: Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia John ‘Jack’ F. Kennedy..........Armand Schultz Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict Bobby Kennedy……….Eric Sirakian Richard Bissell..........Ian Porter Clover Dulles..........Laurel Lefkow Roger Maheu..........Adam Sina John McCone……….Tim Ahern “Joe”..........Raad Rawi
All other parts played by members of the cast.
Written by Greg Haddrick Created by Greg Haddrick & Jeremy Fox Directed by John Scott Dryden Original music by Sacha Puttnam 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
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:04.9 | This episode contains very strong language. |
0:11.8 | After the second attempt on President Donald Trump's life in 2024, then President |
0:18.7 | Joe Biden stridently reminded people of America's proud values. |
0:22.6 | Let me just say, there is no, and I mean this on the bottom of heart, those of you know me, many of you do. |
0:28.6 | No place in political violence for political violence in America. |
0:32.6 | None, zero, never. |
0:34.6 | Such has been the sentiment expressed by every American president. I've always condemned political |
0:39.4 | violence, at least in public. In America, we resolve our difference peacefully, the ballot box, not at the end of a gun. |
0:52.4 | I am Eloise Page, and you are listening to Central Intelligence. |
0:57.0 | My Life Inside the CIA. |
0:59.9 | Season two, episode nine. |
1:02.5 | Americans, I say, the supreme national effort will be needed. |
1:06.4 | United States has committed no aggression against Cuba. |
1:10.1 | Three-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a... |
1:12.6 | President Kennedy has been the victim of an assassin's bullet. |
1:16.0 | Now the insurgents gaining the other hand. |
1:20.5 | In the days immediately following the unmitigated disaster of the Bay of Pigs invasion, |
1:26.0 | Alan Dulles and his head of the Directorate of Plans, Richard Bissell. |
1:30.3 | Oh, come in. Mr. Dulles. He's waiting for you. |
1:33.3 | Thank you. |
1:34.3 | Through here. |
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