This was announced last week but it got missed in the shuffle. To mark the 20th anniversary of the introduction of Benny Summerfield, Big Finish is producing the first-ever true audio drama adaptation of a Doctor Who novel - Paul Cornell's Love & War, which was originally published in 1992 as part of the Virgin New Adventures:
http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Love-and-War-for-Bennys-20th
It'll be released next year.
I call it the first "true" audio drama adaptation because Big Finish did do audio versions of Just War and a couple other Virgin Doctor Who novels back in the late 1990s, but this was before it got the licence for the Doctor, so the stories were rewritten to focus on Benny. And I'm not counting the book readings (including those with more than one reader and sound effects). Those aren't plays. Hopefully Love and War will do well and they'll decide to do more - I'd love to see how they'd handle the Timewyrm arc. There's also a bunch of "Missing Adventures" that would be ripe for the Companion Chronicles treatment, or straight adapting now Big Finish and AudioGO have "broken the taboo" by casting "new" actors as the First and Second Doctors. (Well, if you consider Peter Purves and David Troughton new!
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(I also hope more exposure like this might inspire BBC Books to reissue the Virgin novels - some places are charging $50 or more for these things now, and no, e-books are not an option. I'd love to see Virgin novels be reissued in similar format to the Target novelisations that were reissued earlier this year.)
Alex
http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Love-and-War-for-Bennys-20th
It'll be released next year.
I call it the first "true" audio drama adaptation because Big Finish did do audio versions of Just War and a couple other Virgin Doctor Who novels back in the late 1990s, but this was before it got the licence for the Doctor, so the stories were rewritten to focus on Benny. And I'm not counting the book readings (including those with more than one reader and sound effects). Those aren't plays. Hopefully Love and War will do well and they'll decide to do more - I'd love to see how they'd handle the Timewyrm arc. There's also a bunch of "Missing Adventures" that would be ripe for the Companion Chronicles treatment, or straight adapting now Big Finish and AudioGO have "broken the taboo" by casting "new" actors as the First and Second Doctors. (Well, if you consider Peter Purves and David Troughton new!
)(I also hope more exposure like this might inspire BBC Books to reissue the Virgin novels - some places are charging $50 or more for these things now, and no, e-books are not an option. I'd love to see Virgin novels be reissued in similar format to the Target novelisations that were reissued earlier this year.)
Alex
