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Brigadier Winifred Bambera is back in action with her UNIT team later this year.

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 from the previous sets.

In June 2025’s Fractures, 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 http://www.bigfinish.com, as a digital download only, at £19.99 per volume.