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BBC Radio 4

The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.

Limelight

A voice from the past returns. Can Charly trust what she hears? 

In a near-future world on the brink of societal collapse, the wealthiest 0.01% have retreated into luxury bunkers. These high-tech fortresses boast swimming pools, cinemas, and hydroponic farms, but their inhabitants live in a bubble of paranoia and control. Charly takes a job tutoring the children of reclusive billionaire Edward in his doomsday bunker. But when strange things start happening, it seems dark secrets are buried in this vast bunker too.

In the real world, the super-rich are already building bunkers ready to provide sanctuary from the apocalypse. In Chloë Myerson claustrophobic thriller, we ask: what happens next?

CAST
Charly ..... Ava Hinds-Jones
Edward ..... Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
Obi ..... Joshua-Alexander Williams
Dev ..... Danny Ashok 
Popo ..... Liz Sutherland-Lim
Huxley ..... Ayrton English
Mei ..... India Moon
Other parts are played by Kerry Gooderson, Debbie Korley and David Holt. 

Written by Chloë Myerson

Production Co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
Sound Design: Peter Ringrose, Keith Graham, Andy Garratt
Director: Anne Isger

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

Underground: Episode 2

Tutor Charly arrives in luxury bunker Thornfield. But something's not right with this place. And what happened to her predecessor? 

In a near-future world on the brink of societal collapse, the wealthiest 0.01% have retreated into luxury bunkers. These high-tech fortresses boast swimming pools, cinemas, and hydroponic farms, but their inhabitants live in a bubble of paranoia and control. Charly takes a job tutoring the children of reclusive billionaire Edward in his doomsday bunker. But when strange things start happening, it seems dark secrets are buried in this vast bunker too. 

In the real world, the super-rich are already building bunkers ready to provide sanctuary from the apocalypse. In Chloë Myerson claustrophobic thriller, we ask: what happens next?

CAST
Charly ..... Ava Hinds-Jones
Popo ..... Liz Sutherland-Lim
Huxley ..... Ayrton English
Mei ..... India Moon
Obi ..... Joshua-Alexander Williams
Kal ..... Tom Kiteley
Axel ..... Alexander Arnold
Edward ..... Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
Other parts are played by David Holt and Debbie Korley

Written by Chloë Myerson

Production Co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
Sound Design: Peter Ringrose, Keith Graham, Andy Garratt
Director: Anne Isger

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4.

Underground: Episode 1

In a near-future world on the brink of societal collapse, the wealthiest 0.01% have retreated into luxury bunkers. These high-tech fortresses boast swimming pools, cinemas, and hydroponic farms, but their inhabitants live in a bubble of paranoia and control. 

Charly takes a job tutoring the children of reclusive billionaire Edward in his doomsday bunker. But when strange things start happening, it seems dark secrets are buried in this vast bunker too. 

In the real world, the super-rich are already building bunkers ready to provide sanctuary from the apocalypse. In Chloë Myerson claustrophobic thriller, we ask: what happens next?

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

Underground: Trailer

1968. LBJ is running out of time. Having abandoned his own re-election campaign, the President turns to the one achievement that might redeem his final months in office: peace in Vietnam. But as the US election tightens, the CIA begins to pick up signs that Nixon’s campaign may be using secret back channels to keep South Vietnam away from the negotiating table. For LBJ, it could destroy his final hope of peace. For Richard Helms and Eloise Page, it is a dangerous collision of espionage, democracy and power.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn and David Duchovny.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Bill Colby..........David Duchovny
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer
Anna Chennault..........Carin Chea
Peer de Silva..........Ian Porter
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu..........Aaron Teoh
Tho..........Sotty Pong
Richard Nixon..........Roy McCrerey
Tom Karamessines ..........Akie Kotabe
Averell Harriman..........Kerry Shale
Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow
Gerri Whittington..........Nettie Chickering

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 10

America is losing faith in Vietnam. After a major communist offensive shocks the public and exposes the fragility of the war effort, LBJ faces pressure from every side. The generals want more troops. The country wants answers. And inside Washington, the search begins for a strategy that can deliver results without admitting defeat. Into that vacuum steps Bill Colby, played by David Duchovny — the CIA’s Far East chief and one of the Agency’s most important Vietnam specialists. His influence inside the Agency is only beginning. His answer is the Phoenix Program: a plan to identify and dismantle the
Viet Cong’s hidden political network across South Vietnam. Colby believes the program can bring order, discipline and better intelligence to a failing war.

But in Vietnam, even precision has a cost. What begins as an attempt to understand the enemy will become one of the most controversial operations in the CIA’s history. For LBJ, Phoenix offers the hope of progress. For Colby, it is the making of a career. For the Agency, it is another step into the shadows of Vietnam.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn and David Duchovny.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Bill Colby..........David Duchovny
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling
Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict
Robert Komer..........Ian Porter
Tom Karamessines..........Akie Kotabe
Phan Pang..........Aaron Teoh
Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer
Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama
Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow
McCoy..........Tyreke Leslie

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 9

The war in Vietnam is no longer happening far away. Images of conflict flood American living rooms and the anti-war movement explodes. LBJ is convinced the protests cannot be truly domestic. Someone must be behind them: Moscow, Havana, perhaps both. He orders Richard Helms and the CIA to find the foreign influence driving unrest at home. But as the Agency moves closer to spying on American citizens, Eloise Page begins to see a different force at work. Not a secret network. Not a Soviet plot. Something much more powerful, sitting in plain sight: television.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling
Bob McNamara.......... Rob Benedict
Tom Karamessines ..........Akie Kotabe
Richard Ober..........Richard Southgate
Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama
Geri Whittington..........Nettie Chickering

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 8

Rumours are spreading through the Bolivian jungle: Che Guevara is back. For Washington, the possibility is explosive. The world’s most famous revolutionary may be trying to ignite another insurgency in the Americas — and the CIA cannot afford to let his legend grow. But before they can act, they need proof. Is it really Che? Or another fighter hiding behind the myth? As the Agency trains Bolivian forces for a covert hunt through brutal terrain, Eloise Page and Richard Helms face a delicate mission: find the revolutionary, prove his identity, and stop a symbol from becoming a movement.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling
Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict
President Barrientos..........Joseph Balderrama
Ramon..........Ben Cura
Desmond Fitzgerald..........Donald Sage Mackay
Régis Debray..........Walles Hamonde
John Tilton..........Christopher Ragland
Ambassador Patrick Dean..........Phillipe Bosher
Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 7

When young British tennis pro, Joleen Kenzie (Jessica Barden), is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she has herself cryogenically frozen at an experimental lab in Seattle, in the hope that one day – perhaps hundreds of years into the future - there will be a cure and she can be revived. 

She wakes up to a world divided. Having escaped captivity, Joleen arrives by sea in Seattle with her companions, Remi, an escaped convict and Luther, a blind captain… 

From the creators of The Cipher and Passenger List, a chilling new medical thriller inspired by true events starring Jessica Barden.

Cast:
JOLEEN – Jessica Barden
LUTHER – Bruce Lester Johnson
REMI – Khalid Laith
SUMMER – Gianna Kiehl
LESTER – Christopher Ragland
WAYNE – Daniel Ryan
LUCINDA – Annabelle Dowler
OSCAR – Jason Forbes
KIT – Symera Jackson

All other parts played by: Kerry Shale, Earl R Perkins, Andrew Byron and Eric Meyers

Original Theme composed by Pascal Wyse

Written and Created by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden
Script Editing by Mike Walker
Sound Design by Steve Bond
Sound Editor: Adam Woodhams
Assistant Producer: Eleanor Mein
Additional casting by Janet Foster
Trails by Jack Soper
Produced by Emma Hearn
Director and Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

SteelHeads: 3. Shiny Happy People

Richard Helms has finally reached the top of the CIA. Now he has to prove the Agency
deserves to be heard. In Vietnam, the Pentagon insists America is winning. The CIA’s own intelligence tells a darker story: the enemy is larger, stronger and more resilient than Washington wants to believe. LBJ demands evidence, and Helms must stand behind an estimate that challenges
everything the military is telling him. But Vietnam is not the only crisis. In the Middle East, tensions between Israel, Syria, Egypt and Jordan are moving towards a confrontation that could pull in the superpowers. As Helms begins his tenure as CIA Director, he faces the hardest task in Washington: telling a President the truth before events outrun him.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn.

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict
Desmond Fitzgerald..........Donald Sage Mackay
John McCone..........Tim Ahern
Helen Boatner..........Carlyss Peer
Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama
Tom Karamessines..........Akie Kotabe
Gerri Whittington..........Nettie Chickering
Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow
Sailor..........Clay Zackery

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 6

Soviet nuclear power is growing, and LBJ wants answers. Inside the CIA, Eloise Page and Richard Helms are trying to bring the Agency into a new age of intelligence: satellites, signals, analysis and serious tradecraft. But Admiral Raborn needs a triumph of his own — something bold enough to impress the President and prove he belongs in the job. His solution is one of the strangest operations in CIA history: a plan to turn a cat into a listening device. As the CIA reaches for the future with satellites and signals intelligence, Raborn searches for a quick success much closer to the ground — with unpredictable results.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia 
Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling
Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict
Julia Helms..........Julee Cerda
Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer
Desmond Fitzgerald..........Donald Sage MacKay
Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama
Admiral William ‘Red’ Raborn..........Roy McCrerey
Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer
Semichastny..........Philipe Bosher
Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

Production: 

Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox 

Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden
Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman
Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark 
Sonica Runner: Lily Lefkow

Director: John Scott Dryden 
Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn
Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 5

Family; friends and foe - a richer mix than ever for Clara Page, Aldrich Kemp and the Themis Gang as they embark on a global race against time.

CAST:

Clara Page - Phoebe Fox
Aldrich Kemp – Ferdinand Kingsley
Mrs Boone – Nicola Walker
Nakesha Kemp – Karla Crome
Sebastian Harcourt - Kyle Soller
Aunt Lily – Susan Jameson
Forsaken McTeague & The Underwood Sisters – Jana Carpenter
Mrs Bartholomew – Kate Isitt
Lionel – Steven Mackintosh
Hazlitt & Sir Peregrine – Ben Crowe

Written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg

Sound Design: David Thomas
Producer: Sarah Tombling
Production Assistant: Ethan Elsenburg
Executive Producer: Karen Rose

New episodes available on Fridays. Listen first on BBC Sounds

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4

Aldrich Kemp and The Rose of Pamir: Trailer

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