Murder on Mars: Trailer

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 3 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.

Rita and Jaz must navigate a growing list of suspects, a dwindling supply of patience, and a murderer 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	What makes a great story for our hit podcast?
0:10.0	Strange but true crime?
0:11.6	Well, it's got to have a brazen criminal.
0:14.4	The maximum penalty for this is life in prison.
0:16.8	Incredible plot twists.
0:18.5	He started telling me about local village, hit men.
0:21.5	And one of our super knowledgeable reporters sharing all the scandalous details.
0:27.0	You hear a car, that's not abnormal.
0:29.1	And then you hear a chainsaw going up against the wooden door.
0:31.4	Sound like your thing?
0:32.7	Strange but true crime.
0:34.3	With me, Rima Ahmed.
0:36.0	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:39.6	From BBC Radio 4,
0:42.5	murder on Mars.
0:46.3	When I grew up, I want to live on Mars.
0:49.2	A near future murder mystery in the remotest possible location.
0:53.4	They're going to put a city on Mars and have people living there full time.
0:58.1	Mars, 2048, the first settlers.
1:02.0	The Yale Project is one of the most ambitious collaborations of all time.
1:06.9	14 partner nations committed to establishing a long-term settlement on Mars and the first unexplained death.
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