SOS (audio story)

SOS
Main character(s):	Cleo, Abby, Shawna
Featuring:	Penny Carter, Thirteenth Doctor, Rani Chandra
Main setting:	London, 2022
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Sounds
Writer:	Juno Dawson
Director:	Ella Watts, James Robinson
Producer:	Ella Watts
Sound:	David Thomas, Arlie Adlington
Release details
Story number:	1
Release date:	17 April 2022
Format:	Download

SOS was the first story in the Doctor Who: Redacted podcast series, produced by BBC Sounds. It was written by Juno Dawson, it introduced Charlie Craggs as Cleo Proctor, Lois Chimimba as Abby McPhail, Holly Quin-Ankrah as Shawna Thompson, Jacob Hawley as Jordan Proctor and Siena Kelly as Penny Carter and featured Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor and Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra.

Publisher's summary

Cleo, Abby and Shawna make 'The Blue Box Files – a podcast about their favourite conspiracy theory: is this one random blue box actually a spaceship? This week they discuss shady pharmaceutical company Adipose Industries. But things get a bit real when they start hearing about a mysterious figure called "the Doctor".

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Cleo Proctor - Charlie Craggs
• Abby McPhail - Lois Chimimba
• Shawna Thompson - Holly Quin-Ankrah
• The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
• Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
• Jordan Proctor - Jacob Hawley
• Penny Carter - Siena Kelly
• Additional Voices - Ambika Mod, Pip Gladwin

References

• Cleo states that that the year is 2022.
• Cleo and Jordan mention Tony Foreman, who's disappeared.
• Cleo has heard about the Adipose pills from a woman on the Powell Estate who she thought was drunk.
• Cleo claims that Tony Foreman likes cryptocurrency and Mrs. Brown's Boys.

Notes

• In another development to the Aliens of London dating controversy, this story dates the events of Partners in Crime to 2008, the year of its broadcast, with Penny also recalling that it was "almost fifteen years ago". Indeed, Cleo states that it is currently 2022, the year in which Redacted was released.
• This is the first audio drama to feature the Thirteenth Doctor.

Continuity

• Sheffield residents Graham O'Brien and Ryan Sinclair have been reported as missing. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)
• The TARDIS was sighted near Adipose Industries. Penny talks to Cleo about the incident. (TV: Partners in Crime)
• Shawna mentions LINDA. (TV: Tardisode 10, Love & Monsters)
• The group previously interviewed someone involved in the Yeti incident. (TV: The Web of Fear)

External links

• Official SOS page on the Doctor Who website