Listened to the first episode of Dark Eyes for free. Was heading on a long journey the next day and decided to go in on the whole set to listen on the train.
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Oh yes yes, my Big Finish journey started a long long time ago… In Februari this year! 
I’d already known about BF for some time by then, but it was time to finally try it out. I had downloaded the (free) Lichyrwick abomination Short trip, and listened to it in the car with my father. Eccleston was the only Doctor he had experienced on TV years ago, and the only one I had really watched by then, so I thought, just listen to those whose TV stuff I already know. After listening to the first half, it took us like a whole week (or maybe even two) to finish the rest, but we enjoyed the story a lot.
I kept listening at that same slow pace, until some day, on a relatively long walk, I listened to all remaining free Paul Spragg Memorial short trips in a single day. I think that’s where the addiction really started. You know what they say, life ruined ever since.
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Mine was Torchwood: Broken (obviously) but my dad loves Big Finish equally as much as I do, and bought me a bunch along with Broken for my 15th birthday
Serenity had just come out too, so I got a bundle of Broken, Serenity, The Office of Never Was, The Last Beacon, The Death of Captain Jack, and then that Christmas I asked for Outbreak and Believe.
Still so glad I managed to get the boxsets before they were out of stock.
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Completely unrelated but can I ask why so many people seem to be writing it as BigFinish rather than Big Finish (with a space) - trying to work out if I’ve missed something.
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I think it must have been a Lucie Miller maybe in s4 on the radio, but I’m going to call it Blood of the Daleks because that was the first one I bought
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Mine was The Companion Chronicles 1.1: Mother Russia, which I’m aware is an odd choice but I was in love with 1’s era and needed more Steven Taylor so I thought why not.
For the record I really enjoyed it :))
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Mine was The Mutant Phase. One of the best gifts Doctor Who Adventures gave, and quite a bold choice to have an audio drama as a free gift for children too.
I enjoyed it as a kid, although it took me a long time to get my next audio after that one, which was The Beginning.
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I think either Storming Warning or Blood of the Daleks. I hadn’t watched any of the classic who except for the tv movie then, so it seems reasonable to start with Eight. But my English was much worse back when I was in high school so I couldn’t really follow the plot half of the time. 
I sort of altered between MR and 8DA to see which works for me. At some point I decided MR was too difficult to understand (maybe somewhere between Neverland and Scherzo) and focused on 8DA.
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The 8DA are easier for me to follow too than the MR stories. I’ll keep trying but…ehhh
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I read DWA as a kid and have zero recollection of that, it must’ve been before or after I started/stopped getting it because I mainly did during the Matt Smith era. Gutted to have missed out on that, because I just know it’d have been a gateway drug to my childhood self.
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Let me be boring here. The Sirens of Time.
I was given a copy as a gift. My friend subscribed to the main range, so I didn’t and just listened to his copies for years and years. I subscribed to other things - Companion Chronicles, The Early Adventures, and so on. And then got a bunch of other stuff as gifts over the years.
But Sirens was the first.
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It was early on in DWA, when David Tennant was the Doctor. Shame they never did it again.
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I think it was just The Sirens of Time, I’d heard about the Main Range and asked for the CD one birthday.
I then proceeded to listen to nearly no Big Finish for about five years until last year when I decided to use Apple Music’s library of audios.
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