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Limelight Podcast Transcripts

BBC Radio 4 · 294 episodes with transcripts

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

Spoken has transcripts of 294 Limelight episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 9, 2026.

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archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1567365630/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Limelight transcripts

Underground: Episode 4

October 9, 2026

Liz Sutherland-Lim (0:04)

Underground by Chloë Myerson, Episode 4

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (0:13)

And if she burns everything down, if someone else gets hurt, what then?

Ava Hinds-Jones (0:17)

Don't worry about it.

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