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Big Finish Productions released a line of 6 Audio Adventures based on some of the Virgin novels, as well as some from the Doctor Who range, during 1999.
In April 2000 Big Finish announced they would be releasing a line of new, original, audio plays from November 2000.
This started with the much-delayed release of Dragons' Wrath.
With kind permission from Gary Russell from Big Finish you can now listen to the Original Run 'Audio Adventures' Trailer from this site.
Download the trailer as MP3, or listen to it as a stream of Windows Media.
I have also gained permission to host the trailer for the first of the Second Run 'Audio Adventures', Dragon's Wrath.
Download the trailer as MP3, or listen to it as a stream of Windows Media.

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Bernice First Season
Oh No It Isn't
Beyond The Sun
Walking To Babylon
Birthright
Just War
Buried Treasures
Dragons' Wrath
Bernice Second Season
The Secret of Cassandra
The Stone's Lament
The Extinction Event
The Skymines of Karthos
Bernice Third Season
The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
The Green Eyed Monsters
Bernice Special
The Plague Herds of Excelis
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Bernice Third Season (continued)
The Dance of the Dead
The Mirror Effect
Bernice Fourth Season
The Bellotron Incident
The Draconian Rage
The Poison Seas
The Axis of Evil
Bernice Fifth Season
The Grel Escape
The Bone of Contention
The Relics of Jegg-Sau
Masquerade of Death
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Oh No It Isn't
by Paul Cornell
Adapted for Audio by Jac Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny), Nicholas Courtney (Wolsey)
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What could possibly go wrong on Professor Bernice Summerfield's investigation into the lost civilisation of Perfection? Nothing, it seems - until they leave the planet and spot a dirty great missile heading towards their ship. But instead of oblivion, Benny finds herself plunged into the strange world of - panto.
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Beyond the Sun
by Matt Jones
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny), Anneke Wills (Dr. Kitzinger), Sophie Aldred (Miranda), Stephen Fewell (Jason)
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Bernice Summerfield has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.
Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an archaeologist long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?
Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon - a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.
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Walking to Babylon
by Kate Orman
Adapted for Audio by Jac Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny), Elisabeth Sladen (Ninan-ash-tammu), Stephen Fewell (Jason)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK

"I'm scared of letting all these people down. At least if I get blown up as well, they can say I died heroically. Assuming I ever existed at all."
The People are one of the most technologically advanced races in the Universe - except in the area of time travel. Professor Bernice Summerfield has a time ring. So does her ex-husband Jason Kane. Trouble is, they're their wedding rings, and they won't work unless they're together.
Benny is surprised when Jason turns up to visit her at St Oscar's, especially when she discovers that he has brought one of the People with him. She should have guessed that her good-for-nothing ex wasn't just interested in her company...
Using the time rings, two People create a Time Path and travel back to ancient Babylon, taking an unwilling Jason with them. Benny has just 48 hours to find them and rescue her errant husband, before the People back in the 26th century send a singularity bomb to destroy the Path - and Babylon.
But someone else has discovered the Path and walked to Babylon - Edwardian time-sensitive John Lafayette. And Benny discovers her mission has a complication that she never dreamed of - romance.
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Birthright
by Nigel Robinson
Adapted for Audio by Jac Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny), Colin Baker (Mikhail Vladimir Popov), Stephen Fewell (Jason)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK

"If the human race were to die tomorrow, insect life would carry on regardless. Insects might even become the dominant species!"
Thrown off the Time Path, Professor Bernice Summerfield is trapped in early 20th Century London, with only one of the pair of time rings she needs to get home.
At the other end of time, her ex-husband Jason Kane finds himself stranded on a dead world, where the queen of the Charrl demands his help to save her dying race. But all he wants to do is find Benny, and return to the 26th Century.
In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed - is this the work of the legendary Springheel Jack or, as Benny suspects, something even more sinister? Allied with a Russian detective, she determines to find out. But the master of a grand order of sorcerers has other plans for her...
Based on the Doctor Who New Adventure of the same name.
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Just War
by Lance Parkin
Adapted for Audio by Jac Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny), Stephen Fewell (Jason)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK

"Tomorrow belongs to us, not you. If you were really from the future, Miss Summerfield, you would be a Nazi."
The Nazis occupy British soil and British citizens are being deported to European concentration camps. Those who do not co-operate with the Germans are shot.
This isn't a parallel universe: this is Guernsey, 1941, and it's where Bernice is stranded. With no sign of Jason, she has to endure the full horror of the situation, alone and afraid.
And something, somewhere has gone wrong. The Nazis are building a secret weapon, one that will have a decisive effect on the outcome of the war - and it's up to Benny to put history back on course...
Based on the Doctor Who New Adventure of the same name.
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Buried Treasures
by Jac Rayner (Making Myths) and Paul Cornell (Closure)
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
Buried Treasures was originally available to purchase as a bonus for all Big Finish customers who bought all three of The Time Ring Trilogy plays and is now no longer available
A special collection featuring starring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield in two new plays by Paul Cornell and Jac Rayner.
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Dragons' Wrath
by Justin Richards
Adapted for Audio by Jac Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny) and Richard Franklin (Romolo Nusek)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
The Gamalian Dragon a jewel-encrusted statuette captured by the warlord Gamaliel from the legendary Knights of Jeneve after the Battle of Bocaro. It is now sought by Romolo Nusek, apparently Gamaliel's descendent, to prove his right to assume his ancestor's mantle as ruler of the Sector.
When Benny joins a group seeking to find the legendary stauette, she hs a secret. No one can possibly find one on Stanturus because she's already carrying it left for her by a murdered colleague.
The trouble is, the expedition does find one and, as a result, most of them are mysteriously slaughtered. Benny relises she and historian Nicholas Clyde must discern the traitor in their midst. Could it be Gilder, the obsequious administrator from Benny's own universiy? Could it be Truby Kamadrich, the famous archaologist? Or might it be the bizarre librarian Reddick, who never leaves Nusek's vaults, protected by an inhospitable volcano?
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The Secret of Cassandra
by David Bailey
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
A vicious war between two nations is coming to a head, and the final movements are centred on the sailing ship Cassandra. Along with a very strange cargo, Cassandra carries Captain Colley, a man with his own sad burden, and the paranoid General Brennan, a woman convinced that her actions will end the war once and for all. Their grim mission goes entirely to plan, until the Cassandra gains an extra passenger a shipwrecked archaeology professor by the name of Bernice Summerfield.
Sensing something is very wrong aboard the ship, Bernice's snooping brings her close to a terrible truth. Soon, Bernice doesn't know who to trust, and she can no longer be sure if anyone is who they claim to be...
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The Stone's Lament
by Mike Tucker
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Bratheen Traloor, reclusive billionaire, has live alone for over twenty years on the plaent Rhinvil. Now he has broken his isolation, inviting Bernice Summerfield to examine a mysterious artifact unearthed during building work at his sprawling mansion.
Accompanying Benny is Adrian Wall, the construction manager responsible for overseeing the work, but his construction crew has vanished, and soon Benny and Adrian discover that Traloor is not as alone as he might think.
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The Extinction Event
by Lance Parkin
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
An exclusive auction house is offering the only known object to have survived the destruction of the planet Halstad.
Professor Bernice Summerfield goes with Irving Braxiatel to secure this unique object for the Braxiatel Collection. But this is not a straightforward sale there is a murderer on the loose, on the trail of whoever owns the Halstad Harp.
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The Skymines of Karthos
by David Bailey
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
When Bernice receives a message from her old friend Caitlin, saying that she's found evidence of a ruined civilisation on the mining colony of Karthos, the good professor is naturally intrigued. After all, the planet is meant to be barren, with no life other than the colonists.
Arriving on Karthos, Bernice finds that Caitlin is missing, and the colony is under attack from vicious creatures that seem to have come from nowhere. Bernice has no choice but to set out for the heart of the ruins to discover just why Karthos seems to have sprung to life once more...
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The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
by Paul Ebbs
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Benny is not digging up the car park of the Gigamarket for nothing. Oh no. There's no way on Sirius One Bee that you could conclude that she was there for any other reason than to investigate the famed Latrines of Baladroon.
Shoes? She was there to buy shoes? Get outta town! Get off the planet bub! And don't come back until you've washed out your brain with new-biological-Cortexscour.
Monsters? Nah! Don't be silly! The Borvali are on their side on the force wall they could never break through it. And anyway, what would a cross between a ten-foot Pepperami and a cockeyed autopsy want with the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy? I mean, come on what would they want to buy?
And Time Anomalies? You need the science fiction section on the four hundred and twelfth floor of the book department if you want Time Anomalies, mate. Tch!
Everything here is under control. Honest.
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The Green Eyed Monsters
by Paul Ebbs
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
It isn't all fun for a new mum.
Not only do you have to deal with the lack of sleep, the occasional embarrassing leak and the constant round of unexploded nappies - you have to deal with a couple of testeronically-charged idiots who won't get it through their skulls that you don't want either of them to be the Dad. Even though one of them technically is.
So when Benny gets the chance to skip off for a while, heading into a Goronos System packed with duplicity and peril to authenticate certain highly significant artifacts and totems, she doesn't have to think twice.
Only, sometimes, as she'll learn, when heading into duplicity and peril, it's not a good idea to leave a hostage to fortune behind ...
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The Plague Herds of Excelis
by Stephen Cole
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny) with Katy Manning (Iris Wildthyme)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
200 years on from a nuclear apocalypse, the once proud city of Excelis is a crumbling ruin in a state of siege, as barbarians catapult pestilent animal corpses into the city to spread disease among those trapped inside.
Excelis is a city clinging to life by a thread. But ancient prophecies foretell a final retribution for the past arrogance of its rulers. When the sun is eaten away from the sky, when the ancient relic of Excelis is taken from its rightful resting-place, and when strangers are discovered among the people, then shall the whole world be doomed to die.
Today, the sun is a moth-eaten shadow. Plans are afoot to steal the relic. And a very tired and very fraught Professor Bernice Summerfield just stomped into town in the company of a mysterious traveller in space and time known only as Iris Wildthyme. Pitted against a sinister prophet, the machinations of the Imperial court, and hordes of animal undead, Benny finds herself embroiled in the final stages of an aeons-old plan to commit genocide twice over with no way out.
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The Dance of the Dead
by Stephen Cole
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Illegally smuggled aboard a spaceship, hungover to the nth degree, all Benny Summerfield wants is to curl up in a ball and die. And it looks like she's going to get her chance.
When disaster strikes the ship - human error, or deliberate sabotage? - Benny barely survives. Banding together with a party of Ice Warriors and a laconic steward, a hazardous, arduous race is on to find a way out of the wreck before it breaks up all together. But are her fellow escapees all they seem? Benny finds that's hard to tell when your own mind's being hijacked by the memories and emotions of a dead alien - while a Martian Grand Marshall becomes your better half...
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The Mirror Effect
by Stewart Sheargold
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Do you believe in the mirror or do you believe in yourself?
Under the ice on a cold world lie the derelict remains of the lost Grid 4 Mining Station. Inside the station is a mirror, an ancient alien artefact, its existence known to few. Inside the mirror is one Professor Bernice Summerfield, and she can't get out. Trapped and alone in a place she cannot trust, with her friends distorted and turned against her, she is haunted by fears and reflections.
And inside Bernice Summerfield is a little baby creature that wants her to be mother.
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The Bellotron Incident
by Mike Tucker
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Two aggressive alien races.
A war that has raged for centuries.
A planet that orbits through no mans land.
The Rutan/Sontaran conflict has started to endanger the Terran trade routes, but when the Captain of the battle cruiser Rites of Passage finds an energy signature of artificial origin on the primitive planet of Bellotron he is duty bound to call in the assistance of a qualified academic.
Confronted by savage predators, fiendish traps and the unexpected involvement of an opportunist thief, an unwilling Benny finds herself caught up in a conflict where neither side plays by the rules and no-one is quite what they seem...
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The Draconian Rage
by Stewart Sheargold
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
On the fringes of the Draconian Empire, an entire planet has gone mad: twenty million Draconians lie dead victims of an ancient, apocalyptic suicide ritual.
Now the Draconians need an archaeologist and in particular they want Professor Bernice Summerfield.
Female and human, Benny is everything a Draconian distrusts. So why has she been invited to the very heart of the Imperial Homeworld?
As an age-old conspiracy deepens around her, and her own bad memories are disturbed, Benny wonders if she can really trust the Draconians
And, even worse, if she can even trust herself.
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The Poison Seas
by David Bailey
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Professor Bernice Summerfield's life has never been what you could call simple. But, just as she really feels like things at the Braxiatel Collection might be settling down to some sort of normality, she is sent away from the comforts of home on a mission for the Earth Reptile Council.
Bernice has visited the planet Chosan before, so she seems the ideal candidate to intervene when a Sea Devil colony there comes under threat from a terrorist cell. Under cover of visiting an old friend, Bernice sets out to learn who is working in league with the terrorists to ensure the eradication of the colony.
But as she delves deeper under the oceans of Chosan, she discovers that something else something much more ancient and powerful wants rid of the Sea Devils. Soon, every living thing on the planet is in peril. And all because there's no place like home...
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Death and the Daleks
by Paul Cornell
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£13.99
£15.50 outside the UK
The Braxiatel Collection has been occupied by the Fifth Axis, led by a figure from Bernice's past.
As Bernice's friends rise up to end the occupation, Bernice embarks on a desperate rescue mission, to somewhere she last went long ago.
Braxiatel confronts his destiny, Jason risks all for his love, and lives are shattered and lost, as the battle of the Braxiatel Collection reaches its epic conclusion.
Our heroes will live free or die...
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The Grel Escape
by Jacqueline Rayner
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Young children can be difficult. Tantrums, toy-throwing, not wanting to go to bed, whisking their mothers on dangerous journeys throughout all of time and space.
Jason wants Benny's son Peter to have a normal childhood. Peter has other plans. And unfortunately, Peter also has Benny and Jason's Time Rings. And knows how to use them. Even more unfortunately, the fact-obsessed, tentacle-faced Grel have built a time machine, and they're after Peter.
So Benny finds herself on the run, landing in frightening festivals and deadly deserts, facing ridiculously inaccurate robot doubles and hideously accented tourists, in what can only be described as a sort of chase.
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The Bone of Contention
by Simon A. Forward
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
It's good to get away from the joys of motherhood once in a while. So when the Perloran government call upon Bernice Summerfield to recover a state treasure, she readily obliges.
Trouble is, the previous Perloran government traded the artefact away to the Galyari, and to the Galyari, a deal is a deal. So when Benny arrives on the Clutch to ask if the Perlorans can have their Bone back, she soon realises she has her work cut out for her.
Work that's complicated significantly by a frightened young Galyari who latches onto her, as if to prove that when it comes to the joys of motherhood, there is no escape. And the growing pains of this particular youngster are set to prove very painful indeed.
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The Relics of Jegg-Sau
by Stephen Cole
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£9.99
£11.50 outside the UK
The colonists knew the risks about Jegg-Sau. With a flimsy atmosphere, no mineral wealth and exhausted soil, only the strongest and most determined could hope to make a home there. But with nowhere else to go, they went ahead, allegedly funded by a stock of valuable relics and art treasures stolen from Earth.
But the colony failed. Jegg-Sau was deserted once more, a home only to carrion and rusted dreams. But Bernice Summerfield believes the relics remained, and she's come a long, long way in search of them. What she'll find is that others have reached Jegg-Sau before her. She'll find herself cat's-paw in a dark outpost of frailty and obsession.
And she'll find the robots.
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Masquerade of Death
by Stewart Sheargold
Starring Lisa Bowerman (Benny)
£10.99
£11.50 outside the UK
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome to another in our exciting series of adventures with the witty, irreverent and courageous heroine, Professor Bernice Summerfield.
In tonight's story our daring adventuress and her sidekick, Adrian, find themselves imprisoned in a crumbling palace in the Prison Season of Spring, replete with an imperious queen and prissy but rather sweet AI gaoler. How did they arrive? And why doesn't anyone know who the famous Bernice Summerfield is?
Before too long there is murder as there always is and Benny is accused. Who might possibly be setting her up for a fall? Could it be The Player a mysterious figure of rhyme and chaos? And why is everybody so obsessed with his plays?
Benny may find that her only way out of this prison is to play along with the fiction. But is there someone behind the scenes manipulating her strings? Could she end up a mere 'costume' in someone's disturbing game of dress-ups? After all her adventures, could this be the final episode?
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