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