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Limelight, Central Intelligence: Series 2, Episode 1

Limelight

Central Intelligence: Series 2

Episode 1


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June 20, 2025

33 minutes

Available for over a year

The Cold War intensifies with US involvement in South Vietnam. It’s 1954. Colonel Ed Lansdale, former advertising executive and the CIA’s maverick agent in South-East Asia, a pioneer in clandestine operations and psychological warfare, is given the task of creating dissension in the North to stop the advance of the communists.

Return of the award-winning series about America’s Central Intelligence Agency - told from the inside out by long-serving CIA agent Eloise Page.

Starring Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Kunken and Kelly Marie Tran.

In Episode 2.1 Jungles vampires, the CIA’s lone-wolf super-hero, psychological warfare…

Cast:

Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall

Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris

Virginia Spence ..........Kelly Marie Tran

Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn

Colonel Ed Lansdale..........Stephen Kunken

Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend

Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia

Prime Minister Diem..........Jon Jon Briones

General Mike O’Daniel..........Ian Porter

"Lightening" Joe Collins..........Rob Benedict

Pat Kelly & Madam Nhu..........Lourdes Faberes

Ngô Đình Nhu..........Yung

General Hinh..........Thaiger Nguyen

Lou Conein.......... Philip Desmeules

Steve Arundel......... Greg Lockett

All other parts played by the cast

Original music by Sacha Puttnam

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

Sound Designers & Editors: John Scott Dryden, Adam Woodhams, Martha Littlehailes & Andreina Gomez Casanova

Script Consultant: Misha Kawnel

Script Supervisor: Alex Lynch

Trails: Jack Soper

Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Paul Clark & Paul Clark

Sonica Runner: Flynn Hallman

Marc Graue Sound Engineers, LA: Juan Martin del Campo & Tony Diaz

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