Murder on Mars: Episode 3
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mars, 2048. The first settlers, a mix of international workers and the super-rich. And the first unexplained death.
When a body turns up in the corridor between a scrappy warehouse and a half-built luxury hotel, no-nonsense Harbourmaster Rita Siddiqui finds herself in charge. With Earth temporarily out of contact and no official law enforcement on Mars, she ropes in Vice Captain Jaz Hickson, a wide-eyed young pilot who’s only just landed.
But murder’s not their only problem. Atmospheric tests have triggered a dangerous storm. Paranoia grows as the power fails. Lights, gravity, oxygen: everything is at risk.
Rita and Jaz must navigate a growing list of suspects, a dwindling supply of patience, and a killer who’s not finished yet.
Because even 140 million miles from Earth, people still have secrets. And someone’s willing to kill to keep them.
Reeling from disaster, Rita’s secrets are revealed.
Written by Tim Foley
CAST RITA SIDDIQUI ..... NISHA NAYAR JAZ HICKSON ..... LUKE NEWBERRY DAN ..... JOANA BORJA POWELL ..... JASON BARNETT DR LI ..... CRYSTAL YU WARD ..... STEFFAN RHODRI NILS ..... DAVID MENKIN GRACE ….. ELIZABETH AYODELE MAX ..... SIDHANT ANAND
Sound: Sharon Hughes, Keith Graham and Neva Missirian Production Co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor Director: Anne Isger Casting Manager: Alex Curran
A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.5 | The party is raging. |
| 0:09.8 | Drinks flowing, laughter echoing. |
| 0:12.8 | But this isn't your standard night out. |
| 0:17.0 | It's all happening inside prison. |
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| 0:48.5 | Welcome to Limelight. Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now, first on BBC Sounds. Human beings are made to live in space. |
| 0:57.0 | The lack of gravity affects bones and muscles and organs. |
| 1:01.0 | Without the Earth's magnetosphere, we're not safe from the Sun's radiation. |
| 1:10.0 | All the astronauts used to get lots of illnesses, including brittle bones and heart disease. |
| 1:16.6 | But if we can increase the gravity on Mars, and if we can shelter from the radiation, we can live very healthily. |
| 1:24.6 | In fact, because there is no pollution and no forever chemicals and other bad things made by humans, |
| 1:31.3 | some scientists think we might even live longer. |
| 1:39.3 | Murder on Mars by Tim Foley. |
| 1:43.3 | Episode 3. |
| 1:49.8 | We recover Kai's body, Rita, but you may not want you. |
| 1:56.3 | She's in no state. |
| 1:58.6 | That's fine. |
| 2:01.9 | Rita, I am so sorry. |
| 2:05.3 | Now would be an excellent time for Dr. Carter to return. |
| 2:08.4 | I want him to examine the body. |
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