Limelight

Limelight

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Limelight episodes

  • Underground: Episode 3

    Guests arrive at Thornfield. But what is Edward hiding from Charly?

    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
    Axel ..... Alexander Arnold
    Popo ..... Liz Sutherland-Lim
    Mei ..... India Moon
    Huxley ..... Ayrton English
    Zack ..... Waj Ali
    Brett ..... Kerry Gooderson
    Other parts are played by 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

    29 min
  • Underground: Episode 2

    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

    29 min
  • Underground: Episode 1

    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.

    29 min
  • Underground: Trailer

    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

    3 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 10

    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

    34 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 9

    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

    32 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 8

    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

    31 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 7

    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

    35 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 6

    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

    32 min
  • Central Intelligence: Series 3: Episode 5

    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

    34 min

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