February 11th, 2025
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Big Finish UNIT: Brave New World: Fractures
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
Angela Bruce reports for duty in two brand-new full-cast audio drama box sets for Brigadier Bambera and her team, due for release June 2025 and March 2026.
It’s the dawn of the new millennium, and Winifred Bambera and her loyal team of Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin and Dr Louise Rix are about to face gigantic new threats.
As the danger levels increase, will our heroes rise to meet them – or will they crack under the pressure?
UNIT Brigadier Winifred Bambera (Angela Bruce), who first appeared in the 1989 Doctor Who serial Battlefield, is set to return for two new box sets of UNIT – Brave New World audio adventures.
Bambera leads UNIT in the defence of the world at the start of the twenty-first century, and she’s got a crack team by her side. Alex Jordan and Yemisi Oyinloye return as Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin and Dr Louise Rix, as featured in the previous two Brave New World box sets.
This double bill of epic adventure begins with June 2025’s Fractures, in which cracks between dimensions cause untold terrors to menace the Earth, including a monstrous kaiju!
Then, in March 2026’s Knightfall, the dimension-crossing continues, causing Bambera and her team to take a trip to Albion, the Arthurian world hinted at in Battlefield.
Producer Alfie Shaw said: “A little while after the first two sets of Brave New World came out, script editor Rob Valentine and I discussed what we’d do if we ever got more. We love the team that Rob and Emily Cook put together in the first run and were desperate to tell the next chapter in their lives. Fortunately, we’ve been able to get everyone back and bring that plan to life!
“The two sets are interlinked, each containing a discrete set of stories. Fractures kicks off with UNIT going up against a kaiju before events take a more personal turn, and in Knightfall, Bambera’s team crosses over to the Albion teased in Battlefield. It’s a post-Merlin Camelot and there’s something rotten in the heart of Albion.”
UNIT – Brave New World: Fractures and Knightfall are now available for pre-order exclusively from www.bigfinish.com, as a digital download only, at £19.99 per volume.
Big Finish listeners can save money by pre-ordering both volumes together in a download bundle for just £38.
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Michael parsons
February 20th, 2025 - 2:33pmregarding the down load only issue. big finish I think will have a very limited future with out the physical cd/s what they need to know is there are a lot of customers that are dedicated to the cd format and the good news is cd sales are on the up I am sure big finish can come up with a limited run on every release. they are doing this already but to release new material for down load only this is leaving or going to leave doctor who fans out in the cold.
Michael parsons
February 19th, 2025 - 9:41pmSAME HERE. I AM STRUGLING TO CATCH UP WITH BACK NUMBERED CD STORIES AND BEING A FANATIC DO NOT WISH TO MISS OUT ON ANYTHING RELATED TO DOCTOR WHO SO IT LOOKS AS IF BIG FINISH IS GOING ONE WAY. it SEEMS AS IF MORE AND MORE STORIES ARE DOWN LOAD ONLY. IT WILL BE THE END OF BIG FINISH FOR ME WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE STAFF THE PACKERS NO CDS NO WAREHOUSE STAFF WANTED i AM NOT OR DO NOT WANT DOWNLOADS AS I HAVE NO SMART PHONE AND WHEN LISTENING TO STORIES FROM BIG FINISH YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE STUCK ON A HARD CHAIR IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER ALL THAT IS LEFT NOW IS TO WAIT FOR THE OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM BIG FINISH THAT THEY WILL BE GOING COMPLETELY DOWN LOAD ONLY
Richard C.
February 12th, 2025 - 1:12amDownload only!!! Well some of the stories I’ve bought at ‘reduced prices’ from Big Finish have been download only. I’ve burned them onto a CD for listening to in the car. Works ok for me.
TimelordTim
February 12th, 2025 - 3:08pmSimilar for me, when I’ve got download only I put them on a USB and play in the car off that.
I prefer the physical CDs, but download only isn’t a deal breaker. Better for storage space too.
Robert Cox
February 12th, 2025 - 12:50amThe first two sold a lot less than even the Kate Stewart era UNIT ones. Making CDs and booklets cost a lot, especially if you’re not ordering a lot to gain economy of scale.
It’s going to happen more and more – download only. Support that or the range is cancelled. That a better outcome?
bryan
February 12th, 2025 - 7:01pmCitation needed Robert.
If they sold that badly why make any more at all? Bearing in mind costs have risen for studio,equipment for RR, cast and production wages.
Just saying things with no proof or evidence isn’t good enough. It can be very Damaging to a company. BF don’t release very much in the way of stats .
Deano
February 11th, 2025 - 3:42pmSame here was initially pleased to see them continuing with another 2 volumes but immensely disappointed to discover there download only which is a shame not to continue to have a limited run especially as they’ve already had two cd volumes in this series ?.
I purpose they decided to start to offer downloads only on certain releases which will eventually but everything but strange to start midway through a series.
I don’t and never have done downloads since the beginning and like others when it happens with all releases then that will be it for me sadly.
UK Viewer
February 11th, 2025 - 2:47pmDownload only?!?
Well, like others that’s me out. I only have a CD Player with no digital capability and don’t intend changing it.
This is such an annoying trend!
James
February 11th, 2025 - 7:39pmYou just listen to it via phone/ipad/tablet. Download the big finish app
Missyrules
February 11th, 2025 - 9:49pmNot everyone likes downloads James. It would be nice to own these physically not as electronic bits on a device
Jason Z
February 12th, 2025 - 12:21pmHow are you typing the above message – computer, phone…? Maybe you can listen on that device?
UK Viewer
February 13th, 2025 - 8:20pmI don’t have a smart phone, and I’m on a desktop computer but no speakers and it’s not comfortable to sit at for long (as I’m disabled) as I said I only listen to things via the TV and a CD player in the living room.
The Unlicensed Physician
February 19th, 2025 - 11:55pmWorst case scenario, writing as someone who also isn’t a massive download fan: You can download to a USB stick, and play back via the USB port found on most digiboxes, TVs, or DVD/BD players these days. Or burn to CD, which BF are quite happy about – you can get a USB CD burner for the cost of a CD, and usually there are even custom covers you can download and print.
Timelord63
February 11th, 2025 - 12:00pmBeen looking forward to more adventures with this 90s UNIT team but very disappointed they’re download only when first two box sets were on CD too? They could of released a limited run on CD. If they switch to download only then that’ll end my 26 years of listening.
Auton
February 11th, 2025 - 10:44amThese two boxsets look great. It seems they are download only so this maybe the beginning of the end for physical CDs at Big Finish
Bellal
February 11th, 2025 - 2:22pmThat’s me stopping buying quite simple. Love having them on my shelf, a shame
UK Viewer
February 15th, 2025 - 6:31pmThat will be the end of Big Finish for me.