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1957. The race to get the first satellite into space is on, and the CIA must find out where the Soviet launchpad is located.

The story of the CIA, told from the inside out by long-serving CIA agent Eloise Page.

In Episode 2.5, it’s 1957 and the race to get the first satellite into space is on, and the CIA must find out where the Soviet launchpad is located. Eloise Page, rising up the ranks of the CIA, is sent to the Atsugi Air Base in Japan, the new HQ of the U-2, high-altitude spy-plane program.

Cast:
Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall
Allen Dulles..........Ed Harris
Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn
Frank Wisner..........Geoffrey Arend
Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia
Richard Bissell..........Ian Porter
President Eisenhower..........Kerry Shale
John Foster Dulles..........Nathan Osgood
Addy Hawkins..........Carlyss Peer
Dmitri Skolbetsyn..........Branko Tomović
Mikhail..........Phillipe Bosher
Radar Operator/Lee Harvey Oswald..........Eric Sirakian
Elizabeth..........Laurel Lefkow

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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4

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30 minutes

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  • Fri 18 Jul 2025 14:15

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