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Give me your audio recommendations, anons! :3

Let me try to think of ones that don't totally require listening to previous episodes to get it.

Chimes of Midnight has some arc-heavy moments in it, but it's fairly early in the arc and they explain it well enough that you can get the gist and not be totally confused.

I'd recommend Scherzo as well, but it's kind of the opposite. It's at the end of the arc and you have to at least listen to the two previous audios (Neverland and Zagreus) to get the full impact. It's so good, though, it might be worth it.

Pretty much all of the Gallifrey spinoff. Good stuff, if you like political intrigue and wonder how cool it would be to have Romana as the President of Gallifrey. (Also features the Doctor's brother, Braxiatel, who is just too smooth and awesome for words.)

For a fun taste of Lucie Miller, I'd suggest Max Warp. Does that sound like a silly sci-fi parody of Top Gear? It is, and it's hilarious.

Live 34. I love when Big Finish goes experimental, and this is definitely one of those. Basically it's an audio play set up completely like a broadcast from a news radio station. Features Seven and Ace, along with the original cute male nurse companion, Hex.

The One Doctor. A Six and Mel audio that is absolutely insane and hilarious. There's a charlatan running around pretending to be the Doctor, but he's got a lot of information wrong. Not that anyone notices, because most people have only heard of the Doctor through reputation, not actually seeing him. It even employs the "TARDIS looks kinda like a portapotty" joke. Take nothing of this one seriously and enjoy the ride.

Definitely seconding Chimes of Midnight. If you like that one, the author did another one, Jubilee, that's also relatively stand-alone and just as good. It's Six and Evelyn and really, you gotta listen to at least one with Evelyn because she's cool. fun fact: the New Who episode Dalek is partly based on Jubliee.

Fourty Five is a series of four smaller stand alone stories that are all pretty good. It's Seven, Ace, and Hex.

I remember liking Loups-Garoux but it's early in the Big Finish range, so you've got some early installment weirdness going on. still, can't knock werewolves.

The Companion Chronicles is a spin-off series that features one of the companion actors narrating a story their companion's in. The Scorchies is a hilarious Jo Grant one where she's stuck in sort of children's puppet programming from hell—Find and Replace is another good Jo companion chronicle. Peri and the Piscon Paradox is another good companion chronicles but fair warning, it will make you cry.

I've heard a lot of good things about the audio Spare Parts myself, though I haven't actually listened to it. I've also heard good things about The Natural History of Fear but it's smack in the middle of a story arc.

Ha, Big Finish makes both RTD and Steven Moffat look like amateurs when it comes to ripping your heart out and laughing at your misery as they stomp all over it. Just listen to the two-parter Lucie Miller/To The Death. Hooooooly crap.

I can't believe I'd forgotten Loups-Garoux. It's amazing, I think. I love how unique and fascinating the werewolf culture was. They weren't just generic werewolves. Also, I've always found Turlough to be a fascinating companion, and his interaction with the other characters in this audio is great.

Loup-Garoux was fabulous. Agreed.

Don't worry about the Natural History of Fear being in the middle of an arc, it's pretty standalone. As long as you've heard at least one other Eight/Charley audio you should be fine. All you really need to know is that the Doctor picked up a new alien companion called C'Rizz shortly before the episode. You might get a little more out of it if you've heard another C'Rizz audio but most of them are awful so probably don't go that far.

Poor C'rizz. I wanted to like him, but he's such a poorly conceived idea.

"What kind of companion should we do for audios? How about a companion who's a chameleon in literally every way, including personality? That way he's pretty much indistinguishable from the other characters!"

I love Big Finish, but that was the worst idea for audios. At least with a visual medium like TV, he would have been interesting to watch with his color-changing, but in audio? A character who blends in socially as well as physically is just not that interesting. Not to mention a lot of writers used his presence in Eight and Charley's lives to try to retcon the implications of what happened in Scherzo, and that made him all the more uninteresting to listen to.

Yeah, I feel like he was a really interesting concept that nobody had any clue how to execute properly. I think some of the later reveals about him went some ways to making him more interesting but even then no one really seemed to be able to commit to the writing choices they were making. He absolutely would have worked better in a visual medium instead of having to have the characters just occasionally comment on him changing colour or looking definitely not human in some other way.

Yeah, the Church of the Foundation stuff was interesting, but didn't quite work out right.

In short, I wish they'd just kept Eight and Charley together on their own without the third wheel that at times seemed specifically written to distract from the "terrible" fact that the Doctor said the dreaded L-word in an audio or two. At least it seemed that way to me. The fact that the writer of the very next audio had Charley tell C'rizz "Oh, it's not like that!" was a bit suspicious.

Jubilee is a great one. So is Arrangements for War, but that's not a stand-alone ep.

Gallifrey. It's fabulous. I know only a very few people who play from it.

there needs to be more narvins around here.

not that i blame people for not playing him, though. it's a bitch to get icons of him.

Sympathy for the Devil is an awesome what-if story where an alt!Three lands in the 90s instead of the 70s, so every Third Doctor story goes terribly wrong. It features a disgraced Brigadier as the companion and probably one of my all time favorite Master/Doctor conversations.

Invaders from Mars is an amazing pastiche of 1930s radio dramas--particularly War of the Worlds--and has Eight doing terrible impressions of noir detectives. Orson Welles is a major character.

The Kingmaker is essentially Doctor Who does Blackadder. Imagine Richard III (who sounds eerily like Christopher Eccleston) having been hounded by time travelers all his life, pestering him with questions about why he murdered the Princes. Now imagine Five getting involved in it.

The Wormery requires a decent amount of knowledge of Six's era to fully enjoy, but it's ridiculous and silly and the overarching theme is Iris Wildthyme's terrible karaoke skills. Big Finish is a trip, yo.

Like everyone else is saying, Chimes of Midnight. It'll make more sense if you listen to Storm Warning first but Storm Warning isn't super great quality. Seasons of Fear is another really great Charley/Eight audio that comes a little bit after Chimes of Midnight.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the 10/Donna audios that are out now, those are pretty great too. They might not be anything super special plotwise but 10 and Donna is one of my favourite pairs and it was just so amazing to hear them together again. Tate and Tennant haven't lost their chemistry at all and it translates into audio beautifully.

Similarly, the Diary of River Song is also great if you like River (which I do but I know opinions are divided). It does fall a little bit into the trap of treating her exactly the same as the Doctor but there are a few bits especially in the later episodes of it where her solutions to problems are very distinctly River solutions and not Doctor ones.

Spare Parts and Jubilee are typical recommendations and are also really good even as standalones.

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