Murder on Mars: Episode 4
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 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.
Jaz finds a surprise resident on Mars. And Rita and Jaz venture onto the surface.
Written by Tim Foley
CAST RITA SIDDIQUI ..... NISHA NAYAR JAZ HICKSON ..... LUKE NEWBERRY DAN ..... JOANA BORJA DR LI ..... CRYSTAL YU GRACE ….. ELIZABETH AYODELE DAMIEN ZERO ….. PAUL HILTON 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. |
| 0:07.0 | They call themselves Evil Corps, a cybercrime gang accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 0:13.8 | And at the center of it all, one of the FBI's most wanted. |
| 0:17.6 | They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow. How does a man |
| 0:22.6 | hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire? These guys were going to town |
| 0:28.2 | on small businesses across America. They anger, the frustration, the fear. Cyberhack, evil core. |
| 0:35.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome to Limelight. Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.4 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:54.1 | Mars will cost a lot, Building things like rockets and habitable environments are going to be very expensive and no country can afford them on their own. |
| 1:07.0 | Luckily there are billionaires like Damien Zver, who want to spend their own money. |
| 1:12.6 | They will work very hard and make sure we all survive. |
| 1:20.6 | Murder on Mars by Tim Foley. |
| 1:24.8 | Episode 4. |
| 1:29.3 | Mm-hmm. Episode 4 When When you're properly. |
| 1:38.3 | When you're properly awake, you must look outside. |
| 1:41.3 | I keep seeing flashes of lightning. |
| 1:43.3 | It's beautiful. |
| 1:48.2 | And then I'd like you to look closer to home. |
| 1:55.1 | My hotel has what we call counterforce coming out of the walls. |
| 1:57.5 | You look down through the dust storm. |
| 1:59.5 | There, look. |
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