Limelight

By BBC Radio 4

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

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The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.

Limelight episodes:

March 22, 2024 Silos: 2. Acclimatisation
'Why not try an acclimatisation session and see for yourself? You don't even have to shut the lid!'
As Riv persuades Nat to step into a tube, Marvin digs deeper into the tech and is alarmed by what he finds.
CAST:
NAT - Anastasia Hille
RIV - Paul Bazely
ROZMAY - Rakie Ayola
CAROL - Rebekah Staton
HONOUR - Raad Rawi
DIZZY - Waleed Akhtar
TIGER - Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
MARVIN - Lee Rufford
INFOVERT VOICE - Teresa Gallagher
POLICE OFFICER - Ben Crowe
Writer: Anita Sullivan
Director: Karen Rose
Producer: Sarah Tombling
Sound: : David Thomas
Composer: Simon Slater
Exec Producer: Rosalynd Ward
Legal Advisor on Stasis Rights: Elizabeth Barrett
Cultural Advisor: Francis Gallop
Interviewees: Ben Fletcher, Leon Kruger, Mareike Guensche, Camy Creffield, Liz Aggiss, Kiwi Sam
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4
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29min
March 22, 2024 Silos: 1. Silo 605
'Take a deep sleep vacation. No work, no stress. Guaranteed sweet dreams.' And a cure for the climate crisis too?
Climate events have set mass human migration in motion. Radical forms of governance and flawed technology strive to meet the challenges. Nat, a newly qualified lawyer in stasis law, must deal with the fallout.
Award-winning writer Anita Sullivan's new drama takes us to Lanza, a fictional island which could be anywhere - and everywhere. In the distant future - or maybe not that far off...
CAST:
NAT - Anastasia Hille
RIV - Paul Bazely
ROZMAY - Rakie Ayola
CAROL - Rebekah Staton
BARRY - Ben Crowe
HONOUR - Raad Rawi
JODIE - Anna Fenton-Garvey
INFOVERT VOICE - Teresa Gallagher
Director: Karen Rose
Producer: Sarah Tombling
Sound: David Thomas
Composer Simon Slater
Exec Producer: Rosalynd Ward
Legal Advisor on Stasis Rights: Elizabeth Barrett
Cultural Advisor: Francis Gallop
Interviewees: Ben Fletcher, Leon Kruger, Mareike Guensche, Camy Creffield, Liz Aggiss, Kiwi Sam
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4
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29min
March 15, 2024 Silos: Trailer
Climate events have set mass human migration in motion. Radical forms of governance and flawed technology strive to meet the challenges. Nat, a lawyer, must deal with the fallout.
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2min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: 5. Long Life
Josie ..... Jessica Gunning
Tyler ..... Anthony J Abraham
Larry ..... Paul Ready
Emma ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Aiden ..... Ed Coleman
Daria ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Aiden's Mother ..... Jessica Turner
Writer ..... Sarah Cartwright
Script Producer ..... Anne Isger
Production Co-ordinator ..... Gaelan Davis-Connolly
Technical Producers ..... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig
Composer ..... Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Director ..... Sally Avens
Josie's catfisher may have weaved a sophisticated web of fake identities but Josie & Tyler are close to working out his true identity.
So all they have to do is find him & persuade him to stop blackmailing them. If only things were that easy.
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30min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: 4. Happy Family
Josie ..... Jessica Gunning
Tyler ..... Anthony J Abraham
Larry ..... Paul Ready
Daria ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Nick ..... Josh Bryant-Jones
Gemma ..... Rhiannon Neads
Man/Aiden ..... Ed Coleman
Emma ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Writer ..... Sarah Cartwright
Script Producer ..... Anne Isger
Technical Producers ..... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig
Composer ..... Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Director ..... Sally Avens
Josie and Tyler should be celebrating; they've discovered they're not murderers.
They didn't kill the man who they thought was sextorting Josie but was really just another victim of the catfishers.
So why won't Tyler let Josie go to the police? What exactly is he hiding from her? And who is Pauline?
The thrills keep coming as Josie's suburban life is turned upside down.
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29min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: 3. Dream Job
Josie ..... Jessica Gunning
Larry ..... Paul Ready
Tyler ..... Anthony J Abraham
Daria ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Aiden ..... Ed Coleman
Emma ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Gemma ..... Rhiannon Neads
Nick ..... Josh Bryant-Jones
Detective ..... John Lightbody
Writer ..... Sarah Cartwright
Script Producer ...... Anne Isger
Technical Producers ..... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig
Composer ..... Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Director ..... Sally Avens
Josie & Tyler are working as money mules for a catfishing gang. Blackmailed into the work after they killed the member of the gang who was 'sextorting' Josie.
But that's just the beginning of their problems as now the police want to talk to Josie. Do they know she's a mule or even worse, a murderer?
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29min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: 2. Wedlock
Josie ..... Jessica Gunning
Tyler ..... Anthony J. Abraham
Larry ..... Paul Ready
Emma ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Aiden/Man ..... Ed Coleman
Clerk ..... Rhiannon Neads
Writer ..... Sarah Cartwright
Script Producer ..... Anne Isger
Composer ..... Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Technical Producers ..... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig
Director ..... Sally Avens
Josie has been the victim of a romance scam. Enlisting the help of Tyler, her daughter's hot headed boyfriend, she believes they have killed her catfisher, but now his gang are after them both and they are going to make them pay one way or another.
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29min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: 1. Romance
Josie ..... Jessica Gunning
Larry ..... Paul Ready
Tyler ..... Anthony J. Abraham
Aiden ..... Ed Coleman
Emma ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Nick ..... Josh Bryant-Jones
Writer ..... Sarah Cartwright
Script Producer ..... Anne Isger
Technical Producers ..... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig
Composer ..... Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Director ..... Sally Avens
When an online flirtation turns bad, Josie goes from being titillated to terrified.
Her dream of romance turning into the nightmare of sextortion. Soon she is embroiled in a web of deceit which can barely hold together her suburban life.
A rollercoaster of a comic thriller.
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29min
February 12, 2024 Love and Other Lies: Trailer
When an online flirtation turns bad, Josie goes from being titillated to terrified.
Her dream of romance turning into the nightmare of sextortion. Soon she is embroiled in a web of deceit which can barely hold together her suburban life.
A rollercoaster of a comic thriller.
Written by Sarah Cartwright
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3min
February 09, 2024 Sabine: Episode 5
Armed with the USB drive of Sabine’s recordings, Elly retraces her sister’s movements on the night she died. It’s a race against time to find Sabine’s killer and avert further tragedy.
When Sabine’s body is found beneath the cliffs in an apparent suicide, her sister Elly is convinced she was murdered. Elly's hunt for the killer takes her deep into the secret life in Brighton her sister kept hidden. Sabine is a new five-part murder mystery by Mark Healy.
CAST
Elly ..... Sorcha Groundsell
Sabine ..... Freya Mavor
Mia ..... Aisling Loftus
Oakley ..... Rupert Evans
Daniel ..... Ivanno Jeremiah
Ziggy ..... Ian Dunnett Jr
Becca ..... Rhiannon Neads
Rutherford ..... Jessica Turner
Poppy ..... Juliana Lisk
Written by Mark Healy
Directed by Anne Isger
Sound by Keith Graham, Ali Craig and Pete Ringrose
Production Co-ordination by Gaelan Davis-Connolly
Sabine is a BBC Audio Production for Radio 4
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29min

FAQs about Limelight:

How many episodes does Limelight have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.