I haven’t listened to anything with Benny in yet, sadly.
I bought the “Eighth of March” box set (funny story I actually bought the CDs on sale but their stock system messed up so they had to cancel my order but they gave me the downloads for free) but I haven’t even gotten around to listening to all of that yet, which she’s in.
I definitely plan to listen to some soon but I’m on an Eighth Doctor binge at the moment plus listening to Nine and Eleven, and the Audio Club too of course 
I bought all her original audio adventures a while back when BF had a sale on bundles, so I have them waiting in my app for me to find time and motivation to listen to them. One of these days, I’m sure 
I do not want to know what an Audio Clun is… 
Well sadly that’s me done. 3 stories in & I’m not enjoying this at all. I love Benny in the more recent stories but this stuff is not my thing at all.
Aww and I’d just created a badge for her too
I do find some of the very oldest Big Finish tough to get through.
I still think you’re missing out if you don’t give Just War a chance (Dragon’s Wrath, though, which follows it is bad. Richard Franklin didn’t even remember being in it!)
Well I can rate some of the newer ones. I want my badge lol
I skipped the first “season” of novel adaptations and went in with both books and audios on season 2. The audio dramas themselves in season 2 were just kind of meh. The books were mostly excellent. It also doesn’t help that some major events were in the books. I get the idea, and am thankful that Big Finish has released audiobook versions of the now out-of-print physical books. I’ll get back into Benny eventually, but for now have too much other stuff to listen to.
Nazis. Sorry I’ll give it a miss.
She;s back!
Yay!
And ‘Triumph of the Drahvin’ - superb!
BENNY!!!
Delightful news to wake up to, I’m so glad they’ve decided to do more. Looking forward to this very much
Audio-wise, I’m avoiding diving fully into her series until I finish reading the Virgin books featuring her. However, I did really enjoy the first NABS set! Random Ghosts and The Revolution especially were really good.
One mild frustration that I have listening to her audios, which is nobody’s fault, is that Bowerman’s Benny voice is not the one I hear in my head when I read the books lol. I didn’t think this was going to be an issue because I had listened to a couple random stories with her before reading the books, but as I’d listened to a lot more of Jago & Litefoot (which has Bowerman as Ellie the barmaid, the most frequently recurring character other than J&L themselves), I accidentally began to imagine Benny’s voice, when I did start reading VNAs with her, in the higher pitch that Bowerman uses for Ellie (although not with Ellie’s cockney accent 
).
From the books, however, she’s become one of my all-time favorite companions & characters in the franchise! She’s a brilliant character, albeit one that I think works a lot better in books than audios bc the prose format allows her more interiority.
…Tbh, I think just about everything works better in books than audios
I’ve been listening to the BF Benny audiobooks lately and I must say I do agree with your point about interiority - Benny’s little internal remarks about everything are just brilliant. But I also adore Lisa Bowerman’s performances of Benny - hopefully as and when you listen to more audios with her you can get used to her voice 
I imagine I will, I’m definitely going to be listening to the audios once I finish the books!
I saw that Benny was making her MR debut in The Shadow of the Scourge, next week’s audio club. Anything essential I should listen to before that or is this a good Benny starting point?
It’s a good starting point. That release is actually in the Virgin New Adventures continuity.
I don’t remember there being anything vital. As long as you know who Benny is (and that this version of Ace is the hard-bitten, Dalek killer one from the NAs) you should be good.
I know that Benny exists. Is that enough?
