BNW3. UNIT: Brave New World: Fractures

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Released June 2025

Written by Robert Valentine Alfie Shaw Mark Wright

Starring Angela Bruce Alex Jordan

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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?

3.1 Kaiju by Robert Valentine
Following an accident at High Skelton Research Centre, UNIT is called in.

The dimension-crossing experiments of Dr Hazel Wayward have created a catastrophic chain reaction within the lab, but even as Bambera, Savarin and Rix get the meltdown under control, the energy levels rise.

Something is coming through...

3.2 Debrief by Alfie Shaw
Summoned to Geneva HQ, Brigadier Bambera is reunited with her old sergeant, Tomasz Zbrigniev. A UNIT operation has gone horribly wrong and it's up to Bambera to determine what happened. If she doesn't... it will kill them all.

3.3 Shatterpoint by Mark Wright
Bambera and Savarin are under arrest - for murder!

Recorded on: 2-4 December 2024

Recorded at: The Soundhouse

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."

Script editor Robert Valentine said: "UNIT's turn-of-the-century trio are back! It's a brand-new millennium, and Brigadier Winifred Bambera, Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin and Dr Louise Rix are about to face a whole new world of dimension-smashing dangers.

"This is one of my favourite series to work on simply because I love the characters so much, and I always knew that if we got another box set or two with them, there’d be even more opportunity to explore their relationships while they go about defending the Earth from various threats.

"“It's now the year 2000, and Fractures sees Bambera having to deal with a monstrous kaiju, meeting an old friend from the past, and facing an enemy who knows her better than anyone else. In other words, it’s business as usual... but something else is bubbling under the surface.”

Lead actor Angela Bruce said: "It’s amazing being back as Bambera because it's been longer than we thought – nearly three years. The writing's lovely and it's really exciting what they’ve done with the characters – not giving too much away, it’s really asking a lot more. We show the other side of Brigadier Bambera, which you haven’t seen before. You haven’t seen it in the television series and you haven’t seen it with Big Finish."

Robert Jezek, who returns to play Lieutenant Zbrigniev for the first time since 1989 TV serial Battlefield, added: "It's wonderful to work with Angela again, and this was a lovely script. It's very condensed and it was nice to find the levels of the outside sections that are more action-packed, and then the internal interrogations."