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Awards for radio plays broadcast between Oct 2023 and Oct 2024.
The BBC Audio Drama Awards celebrate the range, originality and cut-through quality of audio drama on air and online and give recognition to the creativity of actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in this genre.
The Awards are for:
• Best Original Single Drama
• Best Original Series or Serial
• Best Adaptation
• Best Podcast Audio Drama
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Performance
• Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance
• Best Use of Sound
• Best Scripted Comedy (Longform)
• Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch Show)
• Best European Audio Drama
=shortlisted; # = Finalist.
Best Original Single Drama
Franz and Felice by Ed Harris, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Studios Audio London
Nearly Light by Kit Withington, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions
Southall Uprising by Satinder Chohan, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Studios Audio Salford
The Call by Ron Hutchinson, producer Eoin O’Callaghan, Big Fish Radio
The Invitation by Katherine Chandler, producer John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West
Turning Point: Mae West by Tracy-Ann Oberman, producer Liz Anstee, CPL Productions
Best Adaptation
Antigone by Jean Anouilh, adapted & produced by Pauline Harris, BBC Studios Audio London
Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega, adapted by David Johnston, producer John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier, adapted by Katie Hims, producer Sally Avens, BBC Studios Audio London
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, producer Jessica Dromgoole, Hooley Productions
Song From Far Away by Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel, adapted by Simon Stephens, producer Polly Thomas, Thomas Carter Projects
Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns, adapted by Gary McNair, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland
Best Original Series or Serial
Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
Cobalt by Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell, producer John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West
English Rose by Helen Cross, producer Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Audio Wales & West
Faith, Hope and Glory by Carol Russell, producer Patricia Cumper, BBC Studios Audio London
Life Lines by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, BBC Studios Audio London
Money Gone by Ed Sellek, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Best Actor
Sean Bean, Antigone, director Pauline Harris, BBC Studios Audio London
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Unsinkable, directors Misha Crosby and John Mawson, Datura Studios & North Atlantic Ridge with B7 Media & Audiomarvels
Ed Harris, Central Intelligence, director John Scott Dryden, Goldhawk Productions
Wil Johnson, Talawa Stories: Babydyke, director Tian Brown-Sampson, Talawa Theatre Company
Rory Kinnear, Ivanov, director Toby Swift, BBC Studios Audio London
Will Young, Song From Far Away, director Polly Thomas, Thomas Carter Projects
Best Actress
Cecilia Appiah, Oleanna, director Gary Brown, BBC Studios Audio Salford
Michelle Fairley, Hello, I Appear to Have Killed My Husband, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland
Mared Jarman, Tether, director Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Wales & West
Rosy McEwen, Antigone, director Pauline Harris, BBC Studios Audio London
Kate O’Flynn, Spores, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
Danusia Samal, The Missed Lives of Max & Judy, director Jonathan Mitchell, Goldhawk Productions
Best Comedy Performance
Rosie Cavaliero, The Train at Platform 4, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio
Sian Clifford, Time of the Week, producer Ben Walker, DLT Entertainment
Miles Jupp, Our Man in Havana, director Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio London
Colin McFarlane, The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty, producer Darren Smith, DLT Entertainment
Heath McIvor, Randy Feltface’s Destruction Manual, producer David Tyler, Pozzitive
Frank Skinner, Do Gooders, producer Jules Lom, Avalon
Tom Walker, Call Jonathan Pie – The American Dream Part 2, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio Productions
The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance
Bel Odawa, A Grain of Wheat, director David Morley, Perfectly Normal Productions
Nicole Miners, Camlann, producer Amber Devereux, Tin Can Audio
Emma Leah Golding, Almonds and Raisins, directors Jessica Mitic and Gary Brown, BBC Studios Audio Salford
Unique Spencer, Talawa Stories: The Master’s House, director malakai sargeant, Talawa Theatre Company
Mae Munuo, Tribe of Two, director Jesse Fox, Afonica
Christian Brighty, The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty, producer Darren Smith, DLT Entertainment
Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama
Call Jonathan Pie – The American Dream Part 2 by Tom Walker with Daniel Abelson and Will Franken, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio Productions
Crybabies Presents….Bagbeard by Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones, producer Joe Nunnery, Boffola Pictures
Do Gooders by Garrett Millerick, producer Jules Lom, Avalon
Green Wing: Resuscitated by Victoria Pile, Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling, producer Ed Morrish, Novel
Icklewick FM by Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill, producer Benjamin Sutton, Daddy’s Superyacht Productions
Rum Punch by Travis Jay, producer Daisy Knight, Avalon
Best Stand Up or Sketch Comedy
Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club by Geoff Norcott, producer Ed Morrish, Pier Productions
I Don’t Know What to Say by Laura Smyth, producer Sasha Bobak, BBC Studios Audio
It’s a Fair Cop by Alfie Moore, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio
Janey Godley: the C Bomb Series 2 by Janey Godley with Ashley Storrie, producer Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions
Mark Steel’s in Town by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
Munya Chawawa’s Election Doom Scroll by Munya Chawawa, Matthew Crosby, James Farmer and Joe McArdle, producers Jo Maney and Ben Wicks, Expectation TV
What’s the Story, Ashley Storrie by Ashley Storrie, producer Julia Sutherland, Dabster Productions
Best Use of Sound
From Morning to Midnight, sound by Jon Nicholls, producer Saskia Black, Almost Tangible
Money Gone, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producer Tony Churnside, Naked Productions
Restless Dreams, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Song From Far Away, sound by Jon Nicholls and John Merriman, producer Polly Thomas, Thomas Carter Projects
The Missed Lives of Max and Judy, sound by Jonathan Mitchell, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
The Skewer, sound by Jon Holmes and Tony Churnside, producer Jon Holmes, Unusual Productions
Best Podcast Audio Drama
Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
Doctor Who – the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles by Georgia Cook, Max Kashevsky and Alfie Shaw, producer Alfie Shaw, Big Finish Productions
In a Manner of Speaking by Tony Green, producer Clare Bedford, Springline Productions
Misper, written and produced by Lew Bradley
The Skies Are Watching written and produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto, Goldhawk Productions
Best European Drama
Mini Pig by Urmas Vadi, producer Tiina Vilu, ERR Estonian Public Broadcasting
Night Flights by Philippe Verkinderen, producer Grietkin Deroo, Minds Meet & VRT Max Belgium
Pale Hours by Manuela Tomic, producer Elisabeth Zimmermann, ORF Austria
The Fall of Lapinville by Benjamin Abitan, producer Chloé Asous-Plunian, Arte Radio, France
The Sister of Job by Marta Rebzda, producer Beata Jankowska, Polish Radio Theatre
You Didn’t Bargain With Dolores by Tucké Royale, producer Juliane Schmidt, RBB Radio Berlin Brandenburg, Germany
Congratulations to all who have made it to the shortlists. The finalists will be announced in mid-February, along with the Imison and Tinniswood Awards. Finalists will be sent information at that point about invitations to the winners’ ceremony in the BBC Radio Theatre on Sunday 30 March 2025.
The BBC Audio Drama Awards cover audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2023 and 31 October 2024 or first uploaded/published/released for free listening online in the UK during the same period. Productions may be entered from anywhere in the world subject to these criteria. In addition, the Best European Audio Drama welcomes dramas in other languages than English.
Entries were welcome from all makers of audio drama, and were not restricted to BBC broadcasts. Each programme producer could enter up to four categories (one entry only per category). The audio drama had to be submitted exactly as broadcast or uploaded. There was no entry fee.
The Imison Award is administered by the Society of Authors and the Tinniswood Award by the Society Of Authors and the Writers’ Guild. I am expecting shortlists for these awards probably mid-Feb.
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