Wolf Valley: Episode 4
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Asgaard’s founder Tor Martinsen’s death sends shockwaves through Wolf Valley but Lena is not convinced it was suicide. As she unravels Asgaard’s tangled finances and covert deals with Russian backers, the dark legacy of Valborg Academy overshadows it all.
Rose’s recovered GoPro deepens the mystery, revealing a final dive, a motor, and a violent impact. And when ten-year-old Oscar Vikstad vanishes into the forest on the eve of a storm, the investigation becomes a race against time.
The penultimate episode in a Nordic noir, where shocking crimes and long-simmering feuds threaten a remote mountain valley.
LENA - Amrita Acharia AKSEL - David Menkin MAGNUS - Eirik Knutsvik PAUL - Raj Ghatak INGRID - Eva Eklöf HENRIK - Øystein Lode EVA - Ingvild Lakou ROSE - Stephanie MacGaraidh SUSANNA - Ingrid Werner ANNETTE - Sarah Whitehouse VIDAR’S MUM - Eva Eklöf SARA - Ronja Haugholt LENA’S MUM - Ingvild Lakou YOUNG LENA - Mackensie Sutherland
All other parts played by the cast
Written by Charlotte Melén Composer - Marcus Aurelius Hjelmborg Singer - Johanne Baadsgaard Lange Sound Design - Louis Blatherwick, Steve Bond Director - Charlotte Melén Producer - Eleanor Mein Assistant Producer - Chloe Sackur Script Consultant - Lauren Shippen Development Producer - Saskia Black Executive Producers - Charlotte Melén, Celia de Wolff
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Imagine a loved one, studying off for the day, and then not coming home. |
| 0:11.7 | You have 101 different questions and no answers. |
| 0:15.7 | The charity bike ride that ended in a missing person hunt. |
| 0:19.9 | Where did he go? |
| 0:21.3 | It's like where on earth could he have gone? |
| 0:23.7 | This is, are you going to be okay for this cycle? |
| 0:26.2 | And he said, I'll do it even if it kills me. |
| 0:28.7 | Crime next door, the vanishing cyclist. |
| 0:31.2 | My advice at that point was to get the police helicopter airborne. |
| 0:34.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.7 | Welcome to Limelight. |
| 0:39.8 | Episodes are released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.0 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:03.0 | So... So, hey, oh, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he. So him, da die, and then you. Wolf Valley by Charlotte Mellon, Episode 4. |
| 1:25.6 | Suicide? |
| 1:29.3 | Looks like it, yes. |
| 1:31.3 | There's no sign of a struggle or defensive wounds. |
| 1:35.3 | Manly of death, um 30-midna fronite |
| 1:39.3 | dush cabinet, hanged in a belt, |
| 1:41.3 | fast up in the duch. |
| 1:43.3 | Why in the shower? |
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