The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) are travellers in time and space, but lately, their adventures have been focused around Rose’s home, the Powell Estate. Something has been drawing them back, time after time… 

In the next episode of full-cast audio drama series The Ninth Doctor Adventures, Thirteen O’Clock by Robert Valentine, these events come to a climax as the Doctor uncovers the true menace behind them. With the Powell Estate plunged into a nightmare world, he and Rose have one hell of a battle on their hands. 

But help is on its way, in the form of young monster hunter Saffron Windrose (Indigo Griffiths). The Doctor has met Saffron once before, in the 2022 story Station to Station, and since then she’s grown into a capable investigator of the unknown. Will she be able to help the Doctor and Rose save the Estate? 

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock is now available to pre-order for just £9.99 (download to own) or £11.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed. 

The Doctor and Rose return once more to the Powell Estate, but now the Doctor has a dreadful suspicion about the malevolent power that keeps pulling them back. The estate is shrouded in a strange fog, most of the residents have vanished, and the sinister Mrs Crook guards the ominous Flat 13. 

What’s more, Saffron Windrose has arrived in search of the Doctor, because once he helped her face a nightmarish entity at a railway station called Underbridge… and it’s happening again. 

The cast of Thirteen O’Clock also includes Olivier Award winner and 2026 nominee Sophie Thompson as the nasty Mrs Crook, as well as Will Chitty and Dan Starkey. 

Producer Matt Fitton said: “With this story, we reach the climax of the initial arc that we envisaged, set in and around the Powell Estate. The Doctor and Rose initially called in there so Rose could reconnect with her mum after the events of Father’s Day, but the longer they stay, the more the Doctor begins to realise that something is drawing them back. We also have the return of the brilliant Indigo Griffiths, as a slightly different Saffron to the naive character that we met in Station to Station.” 

Writer Robert Valentine, who previously scripted the Ninth Doctor and Saffron Windrose’s first encounter, explained: “The big change on this job was that now we were finally getting to write for the Doctor and Rose Tyler. Writing for the Ninth Doctor travelling solo originally, it was a really fresh dynamic that Chris was really interested in exploring, but it also meant that you had to provide some companion figure wherever he went, such as Saffron. 

“So getting to write for Billie Piper this time around has been extremely fun, while I also really enjoyed bringing back Saffron. When she first met the Doctor, she was in her early to mid-twenties and dealing with a lot of stuff. But now we meet her again, she’s in her late twenties. She is her own woman now, her head’s screwed on, she is who she wants to be.” 

Thirteen O’Clock is the sixth of twelve new audio adventures

for the Ninth Doctor and Rose. A complete series multibuy bundle of all twelve releases is also available to pre-order at the specially discounted price of £102 (download to own), exclusively from the Big Finish website. 

Additional three-release multibuy bundles are available from just £27 (download to own) and £33 (download to own + collector’s edition CD). 

All the above prices (including pre-order and multibuy bundle discounts) are fixed for a limited time only and guaranteed no later than 30 June 2026. 

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