It's a time of unrest, Vietnam, Suez, the Bay of Pigs, and for the embattled CIA, there's a whole world of turmoil ahead.

Under the desk.

No.

Get under you.

I'm Kim Ketrao, back with a new series of Central Intelligence, the hit drama podcast that tells the history of the CIA from the inside

out. We have to stay in the background. Starring Ed Harris, Johnny Flynn and me, Kim

Katrown, Central Intelligence. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Welcome to Drama of the Week.

A girl came out of Lawyer Royal's house at the end of the one street of North Dormer

and stood on the doorstep.

It was the beginning of a June afternoon.

The spring-like sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the New England village,

and a little wind frisking down the street caught the straw hat of a young man just passing the

hatchard spruces.

As he ran to it, the girl noticed that

he was a stranger. He wore city clothes, and that he was laughing with all his teeth. Her heart

contracted a little, and the shrinking that sometimes came over her when she saw people with

holiday faces made her draw back into the house.

A mirror hung on the passage wall, and she looked critically at her reflection, wishing for

the thousandth time that she had blue eyes like Annabel Balch. Oh, I hate everything, she murmured,

turning out again.

The young man had passed through the Hatchard gate, and she had the street to herself.

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