Don't Listen to This: Episode 2

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller, set in the world of competitive gaming (esports).

Esports psychologist, Cressida Yang is pulled back into the competitive gaming world. In the last couple of days, two esports players made contact with her just before they died. Cressida is unnerved and sets out to reveal the truth about what really happened. Taking matters into her own hands she visits the hotel where Khaan, one of the deceased players was staying. Can she uncover what is really going on here?

Cressida Yang...... Sophie Wu Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham Park ..... Nikesh Patel Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon Oliver/Officer Patel ..... Jaz Singh Deol Beckett Knox/Lars Persson ...... Samuel James Ziggy..... Andi Bickers Teammate ..... Dan 'Foxdrop' Wyatt Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator- Pippa Day Assistant Technical Producer- Mike Etherden Technical Producer and Sound Designer- Sharon Hughes Director- Jessica Mitic Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman

With thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	You're about to listen to the latest series from Limelight.
0:07.9	Don't listen to this.
0:10.5	Episodes will be released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.7	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode seven days earlier than anywhere else first on BBC Sounds.
0:25.6	Oh, damn it!
0:29.2	Warstorm, I have someone you should meet. Sure thing, Parkey, another adoring...
0:34.6	Well, hello.
0:36.2	Warstorm, meet Dr. Cressida Yan. Doctor? I'm thinking about bringing her on as a sort of team psychologist. We don't need a team shrink, Park. No offense, Doc. Warstorm? Don't worry about it. I'm not surprised. After watching me play in last year's regionals, I figured you don't like hearing people talk.
0:54.6	It was a new game patch. Screwed us over. Seems that it was more like Jupiter's trash talking. He's a tool. He was the alpha. Everyone else was a beta, especially you. That's not true. Have you tried trash talking while playing? I think... That's not my style. I think you should try it sometime. I've seen little glimpses here and there and I think it might work.
0:52.9	That's not my style.
0:54.4	Your style is to stay a beta. I'm not a beta. Sure. I'm not a beta, okay? Ah, take that. Hmm. I believe it. Now you just need to tell it to the rest of the league. We should go, Cressida. I think, with some refinements,
1:29.3	2020 will go down as the year.
1:31.3	The War Storm becomes a legend.
1:33.3	I'm already a legend.
1:35.3	You want to play?
1:37.3	Pimball? I don't play.
1:39.3	No, you're just playing mind games, right?
1:41.3	Best kind of game.
1:43.3	Give that woman a chance, Warstorm, and she might be able to make you a killer.
1:54.0	Don't listen to this by Anthony Del Col.
1:57.0	Welcome to the Parlor Hotel.
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