Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25566332-20140616221206/@comment-9435571-20140619164433

From an interview with Lisa Bowerman in the latest Vortex:

"We touched on this before, but in a series run as long as the Benny stories for Big Finish, does this new set require  a lot of knowledge of what’s come before?"

This pretty clearly shows that they consider it part of the Benny "series run".