Murder on Mars: Episode 5
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 12 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.
With the hub evacuated, Rita and Jaz are alone. Can they find the murderer in time?
Written by Tim Foley
CAST RITA SIDDIQUI ..... NISHA NAYAR JAZ HICKSON ..... LUKE NEWBERRY 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. |
| 0:07.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.0 | How does a man hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire? |
| 0:26.6 | These guys were going to town on small businesses across America. |
| 0:30.9 | They anger, the frustration, the fear. |
| 0:33.5 | Cyberhack, Evil Corps. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.4 | Mom. Mom. What is it, love? I don't know how to end my presentation. |
| 0:46.7 | It's your ancient Rome one? No, going to Mars. Can you help me? |
| 0:50.6 | I'm just making your tea. Just say something hopeful. Say it's one small step for man, |
| 0:56.6 | one giant leap for mankind. That's the moon. Well, it's an even bigger leap then, isn't it? |
| 1:02.1 | Look, I've got fish fingers in the oven. |
| 1:08.0 | In the future, we must be able to launch. |
| 1:13.6 | Murder on Mars by Tim Foley Episode 5 Something wrong, sir? |
| 1:45.0 | It's taken me a great deal of effort |
| 1:47.1 | to have a cup of coffee on Mars. |
| 1:50.2 | First of all, I had to get here. |
| 1:53.3 | Then I had to negotiate with all those countries |
| 1:56.1 | about land and resources and blah, blah, blah. |
| 2:00.1 | And then I had to build a magnificent hotel in which to stay, in which to survive. |
| 2:05.8 | Oh, it was a feat, an expensive feat. |
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