The Betrayed: Episode 1. Siblings
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A five-part drama about a family - and a society - divided by far-right populist extremism.
When Louise a senior officer in the Garda Síochána sees her brother Frank on the news, taking part in an aggressive far-right protest she is shocked. Not least because she is and she had no idea Frank had been influenced by the populist extremists who hurl accusations of being 'traitors' at police and politicians alike.
In the aftermath, Frank's face doesn't show up on CCTV. But when she threatens to have him arrested, he accepts the deal she reluctantly offers - she will cover for him if he promises to stay away from demos and protests.
But then Louise learns that Frank is connected to a much wider network. He's in touch with organised extremists throughout Europe, Louise realises that Frank is on a path that could bring Ireland, and other countries, to the brink of chaos. The time has come to break up his network, whatever the family consequences. LOUISE KENNY … Niamh Algar FRANK KENNY … Jonathan Forbes KEVIN … Stephen Hogan TONY … Aidan O'Callaghan DERVLA … Karen Ardiff MICHAEL GRIFFITHS … Jonathan Harden MUSA … Amy McAllister MARYAM … Lara Sawalha
Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan
A Big Fish/BBC Northern Ireland Production for Limelight
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Your time starts now. |
| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Absolutely right. |
| 0:11.5 | So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | Really? |
| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means... A hatful of ha haas. |
| 0:21.7 | And energy! Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Welcome to a brand new series of Limelight, The Betrayed. |
| 0:41.1 | Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.7 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah. on BBC Sounds. The betrayed by Hugh Costello. |
| 1:04.3 | Episode 1, Siblings. |
| 1:16.8 | When we were kids, my brother's favorite game was hide-and-seek. |
| 1:21.4 | It was always the same. He hid. I looked for him. |
| 1:29.3 | Come on, Frank. There were only three or four proper hiding places in our little house in Dremkondra. I had to come up with new ways to pretend I couldn't find him. |
| 1:32.3 | Frank! |
| 1:33.3 | Wake up! |
| 1:35.3 | Eventually, I got bored with pretending. |
| 1:38.3 | He grew up. |
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