Limelight

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

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Central Intelligence: Series 3
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JFK is dead. LBJ is President — and the CIA enters its most dangerous decade yet.
06 Jul 2026,2 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 1
In Chile, democracy threatens to deliver the wrong result. Starring Kim Cattrall.
10 Jul 2026,28 mins,
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 2
Britain sells buses to Cuba threatening to derail the special relationship.
17 Jul 2026,32 mins,
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 3
The CIA war-games Vietnam — and predicts disaster.
24 Jul 2026,32 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 4
LBJ puts the wrong man in charge of the CIA.
31 Jul 2026,33 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 5
The CIA’s strangest anti-Soviet weapon yet: a spy cat.
07 Aug 2026,33 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 6
Helms finally leads the CIA — just as the world catches fire.
14 Aug 2026,31 mins,
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 7
One of the CIA’s most daring operations: the hunt for Che in the Bolivian jungle.
21 Aug 2026,34 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 8
America turns against Vietnam — and LBJ wants someone to blame.
28 Aug 2026,29 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 9
David Duchovny joins the cast as CIA Vietnam specialist Bill Colby.
04 Sep 2026,31 mins
Central Intelligence: Series 3
Episode 10
LBJ wants peace. Nixon wants the White House.
11 Sep 2026,33 mins,
The Courier
Trailer
A pizza delivery rider enters a house and finds something he never should have seen.
01 Jun 2026,2 mins
The Courier
Episode 1
A pizza delivery rider enters a house and finds something he never should have seen.
05 Jun 2026,28 mins
The Courier
Episode 2
Elli befriends Mo. Both are convinced it wasn't suicide. They start to investigate
12 Jun 2026,28 mins
The Courier
Episode 3
The police reopen the case and start looking through CCTV. Mo is bound to be in it.
19 Jun 2026,27 mins
The Courier
Episode 4
Mo's in hospital after a hit and run. Will the killer catch up with him again?
26 Jun 2026,28 mins
The Courier
Episode 5
Mo's finally works out who the killer is. But will anyone believe him?
03 Jul 2026,28 mins
Wraith
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Cutting-edge thriller about an AI takeover, rooted in expert contemporary research.
04 May 2026,2 mins
Wraith
Episode 1: Breach
Cutting-edge thriller about an AI takeover, rooted in expert contemporary research.
08 May 2026,28 mins
Wraith
Episode 2: Exploit
Iain and Mel race to the roof to broadcast a warning. Nisha suggests shutting down London.
15 May 2026,28 mins
Wraith
Episode 3: Control
Chaos across London. Iain and Mel fall out after the death of a colleague.
22 May 2026,28 mins
Wraith
Episode 4: Execute
The AI is on the verge of total control. Iain, Mel, and the government face a hard choice.
29 May 2026,28 mins
The Dentist
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Darkly comic crime thriller by D.C. Jackson.
2 mins
The Dentist
Episode 1
Kerry’s life is falling apart. She turns to her identical twin for help - bad idea.
27 Feb 2026,30 mins
The Dentist
Episode 2
Kerry thought her life was bad. Now she has assumed her dead sister’s life as a dentist.
06 Mar 2026,28 mins
The Dentist
Episode 3
Kerry’s life isn’t going to plan. Turns out posing as a dentist isn’t great either.
13 Mar 2026,28 mins
The Dentist
Episode 4
As Kerry digs deeper into her deception, she uncovers a criminal underworld.
20 Mar 2026,28 mins
The Dentist
Episode 5
Between the high body count and the raging gangster, Kerry’s world is in freefall.
27 Mar 2026,28 mins
Wolf Valley
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A Nordic Noir thriller uncovers murderous rituals in an isolated Norwegian fjord.
19 Jan 2026,2 mins
Wolf Valley
Episode 1
A missing journalist, an isolated fjord and a chilling discovery.
23 Jan 2026,28 mins