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 {{Infobox Audio Series
-|image             = Class logo.jpg
+|image              = Class The Audio Adventures Volume One.jpg
-|release count     = 2
+|release count      = 5
-|story count       = 6
+|story count        = 13
-|release year      = 2018
+|release year       = 2018
-|first story       = Gifted (audio story)
+|release year2      =
-|first release     = [[August (releases)|August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
+|first story        = Gifted (audio story)
-|end release       =
+|first release      = [[21 August (releases)|21 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
-|main character    = [[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
+|end release        =
-|starring          = Ace
+|production codes   = BFPCLASS01-BFPCLASS04
-|producer          = Scott Handcock
+|main character     = [[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
-|publisher         = [[Big Finish Productions]]
+|exec prod          = Nicholas Briggs
+|exec prod2         = Jason Haigh-Ellery
+|producer           = Scott Handcock
+|producer2          = Blair Mowat
+|script ed          = Scott Handcock
+|script ed2         = James Goss
+|music              = [[Blair Mowat]]
+|sound              = [[Luke Pietnik]], [[Richard Fox]], [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]]
+|cover              = [[Stuart Manning]], [[Tom Webster]], [[Sean Longmore]]
+|publisher          = [[Big Finish Productions]]
+|trailer            = Class returns - out now at Big Finish
+|soundcloudtrailer  = soundcloud.com/big-finish/class-volume-1-trailer
+|soundcloudtrailer2 = soundcloud.com/big-finish/class-volume-2-trailer
 }}
-'''''Class: The Audio Adventures''''' was a series of two volumes of three stories each centered around the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spin-off ''[[Class (TV series)|Class]]''. All six regular characters returned  voiced by their television actors.
+'''''Class: The Audio Adventures''''' was a series of audio stories centred around the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spin-off ''[[Class (TV series)|Class]]''.
-It was announced in DWM 526; individuals with copies that arrived early soon leaked the news to social media earlier than intended. Indeed, as the news broke the series did not yet have a page on the Big Finish website.
+All six regular actors returned voicing their characters for the first two volumes. Due to availability issues for volumes three and four, [[Andrea Quill]] and [[Tanya Adeola]] were recast as [[Dervla Kirwan]] and [[Joanna McGibbon]] respectively. The series also saw the return of [[Ace]] and the [[Dalek]]s, after their previous visit to [[Coal Hill School|Coal Hill]] in [[1988 (releases)|1988]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. [[Patrick Ness]], who created the show and wrote [[Series 1 (Class)|its first series]], was involved with the storyline and scripts of the audio series, despite not writing any of the stories.<ref name="Big Finish Podcast"/><ref>https://twitter.com/scott_handcock/status/1002265126991466496</ref>
-The series saw the return of [[Ace]] and the [[Dalek]]s after their previous visits to [[Coal Hill School|Coal Hill]] in [[1988 (releases)|1988]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
+"[[Up All Night (song)|Up All Night]]" couldn't be used as the theme tune for the series due to rights issues so instead the stories opened using the 'Class Credits' music, that had been composed by [[Blair Mowat]] to play over the closing credits of the TV stories.
-[[Scott Handcock]] both produced and directed the series and [[Blair Mowat]] was the composer.<ref>https://twitter.com/Gregory_Austin/status/1001131273082023941</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/GirlyLetters/status/1001153253818732544</ref>
+Because the licence was acquired before the show's cancellation, the audio stories for [[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One|Volume One]] through [[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Four|Volume Four]] couldn't develop the cliffhanger of the first series' final episode ''[[The Lost (TV story)|The Lost]]'', as they might have created a conflict with a potential second series, which never came to be. Thus, all stories from the first four volumes needed to take place between the events of the show's first series.<ref name="Big Finish Podcast">[https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/big-finish-podcast-2018-06-03-jenny-and-class-1864 The Big Finish Podcast: 2018-06-03 Jenny and Class]</ref><ref>[[BFX]]: ''[[Queen of Rhodia (audio story)|Queen of Rhodia]]''</ref> ''[[Queen of Rhodia (audio story)|Queen of Rhodia]]'', capping off Volume Four, takes place furthest along the timeline, between ''[[The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)|The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did]]'' and ''[[The Lost (TV story)|The Lost]]''. 2023's ''[[Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story)|Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince]]'' was the first to directly acknowledge the events of the TV series' finale.
 == Stories ==
 === Volume One ===
+{{main|Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One}}
 {| class="wikitable"
-! # || Title || Author || Featuring
+! # || Title || Author || Featuring || Released
-! class="unsortable" |Released
 |-
 |1.1
-|''Gifted''
+|''[[Gifted (audio story)|Gifted]]''
 |[[Roy Gill]]
-|
+|[[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[April MacLean|April]]
-|rowspan=3|[[August (releases)|August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
+|rowspan=3|[[21 August (releases)|21 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
 |-
 |1.2
-|''Life Experience''
+|''[[Life Experience (audio story)|Life Experience]]''
 |[[Jenny T Colgan]]
-|
+|Ram, [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]]
 |-
 |1.3
-|''Tell Me You Love Me''
+|''[[Tell Me You Love Me (audio story)|Tell Me You Love Me]]''
 |[[Scott Handcock]]
-|
+|[[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
 |}
 === Volume Two ===
+{{main|Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Two}}
 {| class="wikitable"
-! # || Title || Author || Featuring
+! # || Title || Author || Featuring || Released
-! class="unsortable" |Released
 |-
 |2.1
-|''Everyone Loves Reagan''
+|''[[Everybody Loves Reagan (audio story)|Everybody Loves Reagan]]''
 |[[Tim Foley]]
-|
+|[[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]]
-|rowspan=3|[[August (releases)|August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
+|rowspan=3|[[21 August (releases)|21 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
 |-
 |2.2
-|''Now You Know...''
+|''[[Now You Know... (audio story)|Now You Know...]]''
-|Tim Leng
+|[[Tim Leng]]
-|
+|Tanya, [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]]
 |-
 |2.3
-|''In Remembrance''
+|''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]''
-|[[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]]
+|[[Guy Adams]]
-|
+|[[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]], [[Ace]], [[Dalek]]s
+|}
+=== Volume Three ===
+{{main|Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Three}}
+{| class="wikitable"
+! # || Title || Author || Featuring || Released
+|-
+|3.1
+|''[[The Soers' Ditch (audio story)|The Soers' Ditch]]''
+|[[Carl Rowens]]
+|[[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]]
+|rowspan=3|[[28 April (releases)|28 April]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]
+|-
+|3.2
+|''[[Catfish (audio story)|Catfish]]''
+|[[Kate Thorman]]
+|[[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]]
+|-
+|3.3
+|''[[Sweet Nothings (audio story)|Sweet Nothings]]''
+|[[Michael Dennis]]
+|[[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
 |}
+=== Volume Four ===
+{{main|Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Four}}
+{| class="wikitable"
+! # || Title || Author || Featuring || Released
+|-
+|4.1
+|''[[Mock (audio story)|Mock]]''
+|[[Alfie Shaw]]
+|[[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
+|rowspan=3|[[28 April (releases)|28 April]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]
+|-
+|4.2
+|''[[The Creeper (audio story)|The Creeper]]''
+|[[Lizzie Hopley]]
+|[[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]], [[April MacLean|April]], Charlie, Miss Quill
+|-
+|4.3
+|''[[Queen of Rhodia (audio story)|Queen of Rhodia]]''
+|[[Blair Mowat]]
+|Charlie, Miss Quill, [[Tanya Adeola (Queen of Rhodia)|Tanya]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski (Queen of Rhodia)|Matteusz]], [[April MacLean (Queen of Rhodia)|April]], [[Ram Singh (Queen of Rhodia)|Ram]]
+|}
+=== Special release ===
+{{main|Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story)}}
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Title || Author || Featuring || Released
+|-
+|''[[Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story)|Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince]]''
+|[[Blair Mowat]]
+|[[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]]
+|[[24 January (releases)|24 January]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]
+|}
+== Notes ==
+* Both 2018 volumes were first announced in [[DWM 526]]; individuals whose copies arrived early leaked the news to social media.<ref>https://twitter.com/LadyALover95/status/1001097253182943233</ref> That same day, [[Greg Austin]] posted on his Twitter about working with Big Finish.<ref>https://twitter.com/Gregory_Austin/status/1001131273082023941</ref> As the news broke, the series did not yet have a page on the Big Finish website.
+* Big Finish officially announced Volumes One and Two on 31 May 2018.<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/class-returns Class returns!]</ref> Volumes Three and Four were announced 27 November 2019,<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/a-new-term-for-class-and-some-new-faces A new term for Class – and some new faces]</ref> and ''Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince'' was announced 22 October 2022.<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/more-class-to-come-in-2023 More Class to come in 2023!]</ref>
+* [[Scott Handcock]] was approached by [[Nicholas Briggs]] about making audio stories for ''[[Class (TV series)|Class]]'' around the time the [[Series 1 (Class)|first series]] premiered, as he had gotten a licence for it. However, due to scheduling and developing of the storylines, it took a while for the stories to actually go through and get recorded.<ref name="Big Finish Podcast"/>
+* The physical copies of Volume One and Volume Two had a slightly wider cover than the digital version, so that the illustrations formed a single image when put side-by-side.<ref>https://twitter.com/stuart_manning/status/1015562686216704000.</ref>
+== Cover gallery ==
+<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
+Class The Audio Adventures Volume One.jpg|''[[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One|Volume One]]''
+Class The Audio Adventures Volume Two.jpg|''[[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Two|Volume Two]]''
+Class The Audio Adventures Volume Three.jpg|''[[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Three|Volume Three]]''
+Class The Audio Adventures Volume Four.jpg|''[[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Four|Volume Four]]''
+Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story).jpg|''[[Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story)|Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince]]''
+</gallery>
+== External links ==
+{{bigfinish|ranges/v/class}}
 == Footnotes ==
-{{Reflist}}
+{{reflist}}
+{{CtAA}}
+{{Big Finish}}
+{{TitleSort}}
+[[Category:Class: The Audio Adventures| ]]
 [[Category:Audio overviews]]
-[[Category:Contains spoilers]]