Introducing Doctor Who: Redacted
When a terrifying phenomenon starts redacting the Doctor from reality, three queer women become the world’s only hope. #DoctorWhoRedacted
Someone's trying to break through....In episode 0 of Doctor Who: Redacted, a mysterious woman calling herself the Doctor is trying and failing to contact Earth. Her friends are disappearing; being redacted from reality. And if you remember her? Then it's going to get you, too.
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Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba and Holly Quin-Ankrah are Cleo, Abby and Shawna – three best friends and university dropouts who make a truly terrible conspiracy podcast together. Their favourite conspiracy? Is this one random blue box actually an alien spaceship? Obviously not. Right…?
Cleo Proctor got kicked out at 16 when she came out as trans to her Mum. Now she’s living with her brother, saving up for surgery and working front of house at the Queen Vic Theatre. A class clown who never takes anything seriously, Cleo’s big heart gets her in no end of trouble.
Abby McPhail is a full-time carer for her Mum in Glasgow. She wants to do something amazing and leave her mark on the world. But her Mum needs her, and she can’t leave home. Brilliant, driven, ambitious and intelligent, Abby is the research powerhouse behind the girls’ investigations.
Shawna Thompson is the only woman on her Computing course at college in Sheffield. Group skeptic, Shawna doesn’t believe in aliens and magic. But she does the podcast because Abby asked her to. Fiercely protective, loyal, and endlessly exasperated, Shawna tries to keep Cleo and Abby out of trouble.
Brand new audio drama from Juno Dawson, with a debut performance from trans activist Charlie Craggs. Full of beloved names and characters from Doctor Who – including Jodie Whittaker, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, and Anjli Mohindra – and a host of amazing comedy talent including Doon Mackichan, Jacob Hawley, Ken Cheng, Alasdair Beckett-King, Kieran Hodgson and Ambika Mod.
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Introducing...Doctor Who: Redacted Transcript
The Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds IDENT comes in.
Â鶹ԼÅÄ SOUNDS IDENT
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We hear a rushing, deep synthy musical sound, followed by a sharp glitch and then the Doctor.
Throughout the Doctor’s message, her voice is glitching and muffled. Sometimes it sounds like it’s coming through thick glass, it slows and slurs, it trills and repeats, sporadically turning into perfect clarity. The whole time a hissing, rising and falling musical static runs underneath and over her voice, sounding like it’s almost alive.
DOCTOR
Can you hear me? Planet Earth? Is this getting through? Something is coming. Something is coming for you.Â
My name is The Doctor. You might not remember me, but I remember you. I need you to listen to me. You're in danger. Big, serious, end of the world type danger. And normally I'd drop right in to help you with that, but something's stopping me from getting through.Â
I don't know much yet, I'm still figuring it out. But you're forgetting me. You're forgetting us. Me, and my friends, and everyone who's ever helped me. It's like they're disappearing. No, worse than that. They're being erased from existence. Redacted from reality.Â
And if you're listening to this and you know who I am then it's coming for you, too.Â
So please, listen.Â
I know it's weird. I know it's scary. I know it seems impossible. But sometimes you have to step up and do the weird, scary, impossible thing because someone has to.Â
Remember me. Remember The Doctor.
There’s a sharp glitch as the Doctor’s message cuts off.
Soft piano music comes in, a simple, slow, pulsing melody.
CREDITS
Doctor Who: Redacted - a ten part audio drama from Juno Dawson. Listen first on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds.
The piano music keeps going, then glitches into a sharp buzz of static, which ends with a beep.
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Doctor Who: Redacted
The return of the audio drama series, set in the worlds of Doctor Who.
