Beginner's Guide to Doctor Who on Big Finish - Part 2: BBC Sounds

Now that we’ve sampled what’s available on services you’re already using, it’s time for a bit of exploring. This section will cover more free audios, although I’m not expecting most of you reading to already be familiar with the website where they can be found: BBC Sounds. These were all uploaded to the site as part of the show’s 60^th anniversary back in 2023, and quite a few of them are tailored towards fans of the revived era. At time of writing, they’re apparently going to do some reorganising soon for those accessing the site outside of the UK, but I’ll do my best to keep this up-to-date when that comes around. Same deal as with Part 1: I’ll give some general thoughts on each story, and provide links, although thankfully, there’s not as much need for digging around with this one.

Beginner's Guide to Doctor Who on Big Finish - Part 1: Streaming

Doctor Who is my favourite show. Hell, that’s probably not selling it enough: It is my favourite media franchise, across all forms it has taken over the past 60+ years.

At time of writing, the show has aired 884 individual episodes, encompassing 312 complete stories. But that represents just a fraction of what is available out there. There’s the numerous comic strips and series, there’s novelisations of the televised episodes that often went into much more detail and even redeemed some of the weaker stories, there’s original novelised adventures that kept the franchise alive during the wilderness years of the ‘90s… and then there’s the audio dramas, in particular the ones made by Big Finish Productions. Doctor Who on TV has just under 900 episodes. Doctor Who on Big Finish is at over two thousand and counting.