BBC Radio has confirmed that a second season of Kim Cattrall’s espionage drama Central Intelligence will air on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds later this year.
The series, from Goldhawk Productions, uses insiders’ accounts and declassified documents to explore the CIA’s origins from the perspective of Eloise Page (Cattrall) who joined on the agency’s first day in 1947 and went on to become one of its most powerful women.
Also starring Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn as early CIA leaders Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, the drama covers the the staggering world events that shaped Page’s career.
Season 2 explores the next decade of the CIA’s history as the Cold War heats up and covers events including the failed US-backed invasion of Cuba and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Additionally, Radio 4 has commissioned Discretion from Hat Trick Productions.
Executive-produced by Jed Mercurio and written by Chris Brandon and Davy Banks, the series follows Maria Kossecka (Sinead Keenan), a newly appointed Deputy Head of Mission in a former Soviet state.
She arrives in the country on the eve of a contentious presidential election that seems likely to install a pro-Western candidate.
However, after spending an evening where she and her new boss, Ambassador James Reid (Kevin McNally), entertain this new man of the hour, Maria wakes to find he has been killed – his plane brought down in what looks like a targeted attack. Will Maria uncover the truth before civil unrest escalates?