BBC Audio Drama Awards
Current: BBC Audio Drama Awards #2023
Awarded forExcellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas
DateAnnually in late January / early February
LocationBBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House
CountryUnited Kingdom
Hosted byAndy Zaltzman
First awardedJanuary 29, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-01-29)

The BBC Audio Drama Awards is an awards ceremony created by BBC Radio to recognise excellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas. The inaugural awards were presented in 2012 and the ceremony hosted at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House where it has remained ever since.[1]

The awards were first announced with an invitation for entries on 24 October 2011,[2] and the shortlisted nominees revealed on 10 January 2012.[3] The inaugural ceremony took place on 29 January 2012 and proved hugely successful. Prior to this, there was no official awards ceremony to recognise audio dramas; the Sony Radio Academy Awards mainly encompassed radio shows and presenters while the Richard Imison Award (for best original script by a new writer) and Tinniswood Award (for best audio drama script of the year) were awarded separately. The Imison and Tinniswood Awards are now incorporated into the Audio Drama Awards, the former administered by the Society of Authors and the latter by both the Society of Authors and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.[4]

Nominations and judges

Although nominations are dominated by the BBC's in-house arts-oriented stations, particularly BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, entries are open to all makers of audio drama world-wide.

The judges include personalities from both the radio, acting and theatre industry and the literary world. Notable judges have included British dramatist Nell Leyshon, American novelist Stephen Wright, performance historian Viv Gardner, English actor Robert Bathurst, long-time producer and Director-General of the BBC Lord Hall, comedian Alexei Sayle, actress Imogen Stubbs and Royal Shakespeare Company associate director Rupert Goold.

Winners

2023

The ceremony took place on 19 March 2023 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2021 and 31 October 2022 or first uploaded / published / released for free listening online during the same period. 2023 marked the centenary of the audio and radio drama genre at the BBC.[5][6][7][8]

12th annual awards – Host:
Award Winner Other finalists[9][10][11]
Lifetime Achievement Martin Jarvis OBE –
Outstanding Contribution Radio Drama Company, 1923–2023 –
Best Actor Anton Lesser (One Five Seven Years)
Director: Nicolas Jackson (Afonica for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds)
Best Actress Mary Murray (The Pride of Parnell Street)
Director: Jim Culleton (BBC Audio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
  • Ruth Everett (Spice)
    Director: Toby Swift (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • Danielle Vitalis (Faith, Hope and Glory)
    Director: Anastasia Osei-Kuffour (BBC Audio Drama London)
Best Supporting Performance


Matthew Gravelle (Fault Lines: Blood)
Director: Gary Brown (BBC Audio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)

The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance Gareth Elis (Tremolo)
Director: Zoe Waterman (Illumine Theatre)
  • Natalie Davis (The War after the War)
    Director: Johnny Vegas (Woolyback Productions)
  • Evie Hargreaves (Miss Nobody)
    Director: Pauline Harris (BBC Audio Drama North)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4)
  • Daughter by Testament
    Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Audio Drama North)
  • Solomon Browne by Callum Mitchell
    Producer: James Robinson (BBC Cymru Wales)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Exemplar by Ben Ringham, Max Ringham and Dan Rebellato
Producers: Jade Lewis and Polly Thomas (Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 Brick Lane by Monica Ali adapted by Tanika Gupta
Producer: Anne Isger (BBC Audio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Town is by the Sea by Ross Flight
Producers: Eleanor Turney, George Warren, Patrick Eakin Young (Soundworlds)
  • Commendation: Ariel and Winter Trees by Jon Nicholls
    Producer: Charlotte Melén (Almost Tangible)
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alison Craig, Anne Bunting, Keith Graham and Caleb Knightley
    Producers: Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, David Hunter and Gemma Jenkins (BBC Audio Drama London)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian by Ken Cheng
Producer: Rajiv Karia (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Downing Street Doppelganger by Jim Poyser
    Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Audio Drama North)
  • Tudur Owen: United Nations of Anglesey by Tudur Owen
    Producer: Richard Morris (BBC Studios)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		Please Use Other Door by Kat Butterfield, Dan Audritt, Sophie Dickson, Laura Major, Rob Darke, Alex Nash, Sam South, Ed Amsden, Tom Coles, Cody Dahler, Toby Williams, Ed Tew, Anna Goodman, Imogen Andrews, Matt Harrison, Carwyn Blayney, Natasha Dhanraj, Alice Etches, Nathalie Antonia, Chris Ryman, Simon Alcock, Leigh Douglas, Chazz Redhead, Paul F Taylor, Jo Wiggins, Cameron Loxdale, Lewis Cook, Owen Petty, Tom Oxenham, Rebecca Heitlinger and Bill Dare
Producer: Bill Dare (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best European Drama The Sixties by Ema Stere, adapted and directed by Mihnea Chelaru
Producer: Oana Cristea Grigorescu (Radio Romania)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama The System by Ben Lewis
Producer: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds)
Imison Award Making of a Monster by Connor Allen
Producer: Emma Harding (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Knock of the Ban Sithe by Kenny Boyle
    Producer: Bruce Young (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
  • The A-Z of Things: M is for Mussels by Lara Barbier
    Producer: Becky Ripley (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 3)
Tinniswood Award End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • A Close Approximation of You by Oliver Emanuel
    Producer: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
  • Waterloo Station by Katie Hims
    Producer: Mary Peate (BBC Audio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Strings by Linda Marshall Griffiths
    Producer: Nadia Molinari ( BBC Audio Drama North for BBC Radio 3)

2022

The ceremony took place on 25 March 2022 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2020 and 31 October 2021 or first uploaded / published / released for free listening online during the same period. 2022 marked the return as an in-person event after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, it also saw the return of the Best Supporting Performance and Lifetime Achievement awards after an absence of three years.[12]

11th annual awards – Host: Andy Zaltzman
Award Winner Other finalists[13]
Lifetime Achievement Miriam Margolyes –
Outstanding Contribution Sioned Wiliam, Commissioning Editor, Comedy, BBC Radio 4 –
Best Actor Edmund Davies (The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles)
Director: Pauline Harris (BBC Audio Drama North)
Best Actress Juliet Aubrey (Dead Weather)
Director: Nicolas Jackson (Afonica)
  • Commendation: Jasmine Hyde (Little Blue Lines)
    Director: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • Amanda Lawrence (Folk)
    Director: Sue Roberts (BBC Audio Drama North)
Best Supporting Performance Claire Price (Dead Weather)
Director: Nicolas Jackson (Afonica)
  • Paul Chahidi (Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein)
    Director: Abigail le Fleming (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • Joanne Whalley (Sweeney Todd and String of Pearls)
    Director: Rosalind Ayres (Jarvis & Ayres Productions)
The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance Saran Morgan (Release)
Director: John Norton (BBC Cymru Wales)
  • Ray Castleton (Cornerstone)
    Director: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • Jacoba Williams (Precious Little Thing)
    Director: Anastasia Osei-Kuffour (Talawa / Feral inc)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 Dead Weather by Hattie Naylor
Producer: Nicolas Jackson (Afonica)
  • Life is a Radio in the Dark by Will Eno
    Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • You & Me by Dan Rebellato
    Producer: Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore (Naked Productions)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Life Lines by Al Smith
Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Audio Drama London)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Ayeesha Menon
Producers: Nadir Khan & Ayeesha Menon (Goldhawk Productions)
  • Mr Waring of the BBC by Freddie Phillips, adapted from various sources
    Producer: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Audio Drama London)
  • The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC Audio Drama North)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama The Meaning of Zong by Jon Nicholls, Jonquil Panting, Giles Terera
Producer: Jonquil Panting (Jonx Productions)
  • Creation of the Birds by Sami El-Enany
    Producer: Sami El-Enany (Falling Tree)
  • Commendation: U.ME: the Musical by Steve Levine
    Producers: Lewis Borg-Cardona and Steve Levine (Magnum Opus Broadcasting)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 Mortal by Bridget Christie
Producer: Carl Cooper (BBC Studios)
  • God Squad by Jack Chisnall and Barney Fishwick
    Producer: David Tyler (Pozzitive)
  • OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin with additional material by Rajiv Karia
    Producer: Benjamin Sutton (BBC Studios)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		Sound Heap by John-Luke Roberts, with Cariad Lloyd, Charlie George, Deborah Frances-White, Gareth Gwynn, Katherine Parkinson, Katy Brand, Ken Cheng, Kieran Hodgson, Paddy Gervers, Ruth Bratt, Saima Ferdows, Sooz Kempner, Amy Gledhill & Chris Cantrill, Tom Allen, Tom Neenan and Toussaint Douglass,
Producer: Ed Morrish (Lead Mojo)
  • Drop the Dead Panda by Evelyn Mok, Ken Cheng, Amille Jampa-Ngoen, Vivian Xie, Joanne Lao and Bruce Tang
    Producer: Sam Michell (BBC Studios)
  • Emergency Broadcast by Gemma Arrowsmith
    Producer: Victoria Lloyd (BBC Studios)
Best European Drama The Lion by Martin Algus, adapted by Andres Noormets
Producer: Andres Noormets (ERR Estonian Public Broadcasting)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama Passenger List (series 2) by John Scott Dryden, Lauren Shippen, Meghan Fitzmartin, Janina Matthewson, Sarah Lot and Mark Henry Phillips
Producers: John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn (Goldhawk Productions, PRX Radiotopia)
  • Blis-ta by Sonya Hale
    Producer: Mimi Findlay (Clean Break for Spotify)
  • The Cipher by Brett Neichin and Janina Matthewson
    Producers: John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn (Goldhawk Productions)
Imison Award The Lemonade Lads by Faebian Averies
Producer: James Robinson (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio)
  • The Chronicles of Wild Hollow by Harvey Badger, Angus Maxwell and Christian Powlesland
    Producer: Shouting is Funny for Spotify
  • Welcome to Medpatch by Kev Core
    Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Radio 4)
  • Yellow Lips by Katie Redford
    Producer: Tracey Neale (Radio 4)
Tinniswood Award Blis-ta by Sonya Hale
Producer: Mimi Findlay (Clean Break for Spotify)
  • Life is a Radio in the Dark by Will Eno
    Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Audio Drama London / BBC Radio 3)
  • The Piper by Vickie Donoghue & Natalie Mitchell
    Producers: Kate Rowland and Russell Finch (Somethin' Else / BBC Sounds)

2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ceremony was held virtually taking place on 26 March 2021 and covering audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2019 and 31 October 2020 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. With the restrictions having also impacted programme-making a one-off The Year of Reinvention Award replaced the Best Director Award. For the third year in succession no awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed this year.[14]

10th annual awards – Host: John Wilson
Award Winner Other finalists[15]
Outstanding Contribution The studio managers, technicians, sound engineers and designers, R&D engineers and all technical staff working on BBC-produced and independent audio drama and comedy productions –
Best Actor David Threlfall (Happiness!)
Director: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Actress Maggie Steed (Suffer Little Children)
Director: Jessica Dromgoole (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Debut Performance Jordan Nash (Oliver: Lagos to London)
Director: Michael Buffong (Feral inc. for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 Magnitsky the Musical by Robert Hudson and Johnny Flynn
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Broken English by Shelagh Stephenson
Producer: Eoin O’Callaghan (Big Fish Radio Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • 24 Kildare Road by Katie Hims
    Producer: Mary Peate (BBC Radio Drama London)
  • Body Horror by Lucy Catherine
    Producer: Toby Swift (BBC Radio Drama London)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 The Voyage of the St. Louis by Daniel Kehlmann, adapted by Tom Stoppard
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, sound by Steve Bond
Producers: Joby Waldman and Steve Bond (Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Cane, sound by Nigel Lewis
    Producer: John Norton (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Over and Out (Murmurs episode 1), sound by Catherine Robinson
    Producers: James Robinson, John Norton, Helen Perry and David Devereux (BBC Cymru Wales)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 The Musical Life of Boudicca... by Dan Kiss and Dave Cribb
Producers: Dave Cribb and Tom Price (The Rubber Chicken for BBC Radio Wales)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		The Skewer by Jon Holmes
Producer: Jon Holmes (Unusual Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best European Drama Earthquake by Janko Polić Kamov
Producer: Katja Šimunić (HRT Croatian Radio)
  • Holidays from Suicide: a Fantastic Journey with Iggy Pop by Birgit Kempker and Anatol Atonal
    Producers: Birgit Kempker and Anatol Atonal (SRF, Switzerland)
  • In Winter by Magda Woitzuck, Ida Schön, Hanno Millesi, Mark von Schlegell, Ann Cotten, Puneh Ansari
    Producers: Christian Lerch and Philip Scheiner (ORF, Austria)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama Unwell: a Midwestern Gothic Mystery by Jim McDoniel, Jessica Best, Jessica Wright Buha and Bilal Dardai
Producers: Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde (HartLife NFP)
  • Murmurs by Janina Matthewson, Beth Crane, Tom Crowley, Greer Ellison, Eno Mfon, Jesse Schwenk, Chris Sugden, Jen Sugden, and Robert Valentine
    Producers: James Robinson, John Norton, Helen Perry and David Devereux (BBC Cymru Wales)
  • Tribulation by Adam Jahnke
    Producer: Greg Cooler (ListenUp Audio)
The Year of Reinvention Award Lockdown Theatre Festival
Producers: Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Mortimer, Steve Bond, Jack Howson and Joby Waldman (Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Connections
    Producer: Polly Thomas (Naked Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: The Plague
    Producer: Turan Ali (Bona Broadcasting for BBC Radio 4)
Imison Award Maynard by Fraser Ayres
Producer: Mel Harris (BBC Radio 4)
  • Scoop McDoolie by Isaac Fisher
    Producer: Naala Vanslembrouck (Apple Podcasts)
  • LoveSick by Ella Skolimowski
    Producer: Julius Beltrame (Apple Podcasts)
Tinniswood Award Tristram Shandy: In Development by Christopher Douglas
Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Just the Three of Us by Becky Prestwich
    Producer: Pauline Harris (BBC Radio 4)
  • This Thing of Darkness (episode 7) by Anita Vettesse with Eileen Horne
    Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams (BBC Radio 4)
  • Shrapnel by Isabel Wright
    Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane (BBC Radio 4)

2020

The ceremony took place on 2 February 2020 and covers audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2018 and 31 October 2019 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. For the second year in succession no awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed this year.[16]

9th annual awards – Host: Meera Syal
Award Winner Other finalists[17]
Outstanding Contribution The Amazing Maya Angelou, dramatised by Patricia Cumper, Janice Okoh and Winsome Pinnock
Producer/Director: Pauline Harris (BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4) 		–
Best Actor Stephen Dillane (Sea Longing)
Director: Jo McInnes (Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 3)
Best Actress Rebecca Front (Love in Recovery)
Director: Ben Worsfield (King Bert for BBC Radio 4)
Best Debut Performance George Kent (A Kestrel for a Knave)
Director: Fiona McAlpine (Goldhawk Essential for BBC Radio 4)
  • Nadia Clifford (Good News Stories)
    Director: Mary Peate (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Sade Malone (Torn)
    Director: Gary Brown (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
Best Director Mary Ward-Lowery (Talk to Me: H. P. Lovecraft)
(BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • Mair Bosworth (Deaf Republic)
    (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond (Savages)
    (Afonica for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 Sea Longing by Elizabeth Kuti
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 3)
  • The Invisible by Linda Marshall Griffiths
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 3)
  • Torn by Eve Steele
    Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Life Lines by Al Smith
Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • D for Dexter by Amanda Whittington
    Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • Undercover Mumbai (series 3) by Ayeesha Menon
    Producers: John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan (Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 Black Water: An American Story by Joyce Carol Oates, adapted by Sarah Wooley
Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama The Invisible, sound by Steve Brooke with Sharon Hughes
Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 3)
  • An Angel in Miami, sound by Steve Bond
    Producers: Joby Waldman and Steve Bond (Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4)
  • Hello Caller, sound by Michael Harrison and Alison Crawford
    Producer: Alison Crawford (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 Wangsplaining by Phil Wang
Producer: Matt Stronge (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar by Alexei Sayle
Producer: Joe Nunnery (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best European Drama Buzz Suppression – Recording Strictly off the Record by Ulrich Bassenge
Producers: Ulrich Bassenge, Martina Müller-Wallraff and Anina Barandun (WDR, Germany and SRF, Switzerland)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama Passenger List by John Scott Dryden, Lauren Shippen and Mark Henry Phillips
Producer: Emma Hearn (Goldhawk Productions / Radiotopia)
Imison Award Bathwater by Vicky Foster
Producer: Sue Roberts (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Beatboxer by Testament
    Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: By God's Mercy by Colette Victor
    Producer: David Hunter (BBC World Service)
Tinniswood Award The Hartlepool Spy by Ian Martin
Producer: Sam Ward (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)

2019

The ceremony took place on 3 February 2019 and covers audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2017 and 31 October 2018 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. 2019 was the year when an award for Best Director was introduced as was one for Best European Drama. No awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed in this year.[18]

8th annual awards – Host: Tracy-Ann Oberman
Award Winner Other finalists[19]
Outstanding Contribution Home Front (BBC Radio 4). Editor: Jessica Dromgoole
Core Writers: Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Lucy Catherine, Sarah Daniels, Katie Hims, Shaun McKenna, and Mike Walker 		–
Best Actor David Threlfall (Spike and the Elfin Oak)
Director: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Liam Brennan (Five Days Which Changed Everything)
    Director: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
  • Jasper Britton (A Month of Maureen – Three Journeys)
    Director: Marion Nancarrow (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Actress Eve Myles (19 Weeks)
Director: Helen Perry (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Sudha Bhuchar (My Son the Doctor)
    Director: Jonquil Panting (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Sydney Wade (D for Dexter)
    Director: Mary Ward-Lowery (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
Best Debut Performance Daisy Head (Love Henry James: The Golden Bowl)
Directors: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Karlo Diaz (The Beast)
    Directors: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond (Afonica for BBC Radio 4)
  • Georgia Scholes (Billy Homeless Dies at the End)
    Director: Boz Temple-Morris (Holy Mountain for BBC Radio 4)
Best Director Abigail le Fleming (The Effect)
(BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
  • Commendation: Steve Bond and Judith Kampfner (Shadowbahn)
    (Corporation For Independent Media for BBC Radio 4)
  • Peter Kavanagh (The Wild Duck)
    (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 County Lines by Amelia Bullmore
Producer/Director: Mary Peate (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • 19 Weeks by Emily Steel
    Producer/Director: Helen Perry (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Chosen One by Avi Garvi
    Producers: Nadir Khan and John Dryden (Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 The Truth about Hawaii by Oliver Emanuel
Producer/Director: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
  • Stone by Martin Jameson, Richard Monks, Cath Staincliffe, Alex Ganley and Vivienne Harvey
    Producers/Directors: Nadia Molinari and Gary Brown (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Tommies by Avin Shah
    Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting and Jonathan Ruffle (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London by Charles Dickens, adapted by Ayeesha Menon
Producers: Gill Parry and Emma Hearn (Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Das Kapital by Karl Marx, adapted by Sarah Woods
    Producer/Director: James Robinson (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Love Henry James: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths
    Producer/Director: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Love Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, sound by Steve Brooke and John Benton
Producer/Director: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Beast, sound by Steve Bond
    Producers/Directors: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond (Afonica for BBC Radio 4)
  • Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel, sound by Wilfredo Acosta
    Producers: Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui (Dancing Ledge for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes by Rob Newman
Producer: John Harvey (Hat Trick Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore
Producer: Ed Morrish (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best European Drama Munch and Munch – Diptych by Jasna Mesarić
Producer: Katja Šimunić (HRT Croatian Radio)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama Red Moon by Robert Valentine
Producer: Robert Valentine (The Wireless Theatre Company)
Imison Award Of A Lifetime by Lulu Raczka
Producers: Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore (Naked Productions for BBC Radio 3)
  • Spike and the Elfin Oak by Ian Billings
    Producer: Gemma Jenkins (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Double Bubble by Carl Cattermole
    Producer: Andrew Wilkie (National Prison Radio)
Tinniswood Award When the Pips Stop by Oliver Emanuel
Producer: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
  • Playing Dead by Vivienne Harvey
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Holbein's Skull by Martyn Wade
    Producer: Tracey Neale (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)

2018

The ceremony took place on 28 January 2018 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2016 and 31 October 2017 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. In 2018 the two awards for comedy were changed to become Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) and Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch show).[20]

7th annual awards – Host: Tracy-Ann Oberman
Award Winner Other finalists[21]
Lifetime Achievement Siân Phillips –
Outstanding Contribution Ayeesha Menon and Midnight's Children –
Best Actor Nikesh Patel (Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie), adapted by Ayeesha Menon
Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Actress Christine Bottomley (Solitary)
Producers: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond (Afonica for BBC Radio 3)
Best Supporting Performance Rupert Evans (Long Day's Journey into Night)
Producer: Celia de Wolff (Pier Productions for BBC Radio 3)
Best Debut Performance Sabrina Sandhu (Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims)
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Andrew Leung (Prime Cut)
    Producer: Helen Perry (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Kate Phillips (Gudrun’s Saga)
    Producers: Gemma Jenkins and Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 The Red by Marcus Brigstocke
Producer: Caroline Raphael (Pier Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Dangerous Visions: Culture by Al Smith
    Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Music Lesson by Hannah Silva
    Producer: Melanie Harris (Sparklab Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Producer: Gary Brown (BBC Radio Drama North for BBC Radio 3)
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, adapted by Ayeesha Menon
    Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Terrible Beauty by Gerald Doyle, adapted by Bernard Clarke
    Producer: Bernard Clarke (RTÉ lyric fm)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama The War of the Worlds, sound by Cal Knightley, Mike Etherden, Alison Craig
Producer: Marc Beeby (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Dangerous Visions: Kafka's Metamorphosis, sound by Nigel Lewis
    Producer: James Robinson (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Midnight's Children, sound by Peter Ringrose, Anne Bunting and Jenni Burnett
    Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Longform)		 Australian Trilogy by Sarah Kendall
Producer: Carl Cooper (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Sketch show) 		It’s Jocelyn by Jocelyn Jee Esien, Liam Beirn, Laura Major, Tom Coles, Ed Amsden and Sarah Campbell
Producer: Suzy Grant (BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4)
Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama Rathband: A Digital Tragedy by Christopher Hogg
Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and John Wakefield (5th Quarter)
Imison Award The Book of Yehudit by Adam Usden
Producer: Charlotte Riches (BBC North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Wide Open Spaces by Jane Wainwright
    Producer: Charlotte Riches (BBC North for BBC Radio 4)
Tinniswood Award Borderland by Sarah Woods
Producer: James Robinson (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)

2017

The ceremony took place on 29 January 2017 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 31 October 2016 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.[22]

6th annual awards – Host: Lenny Henry
Award Winner Other finalists[23]
Lifetime Achievement Bill Nighy –
Outstanding Contribution The Archers –
Best Actor Danny Sapani (A Raisin in the Sun)
Director: Pauline Harris (BBC North for BBC Radio 3)
Best Actress Christine Bottomley (The Sky is Wider)
Director: Nadia Molinari (BBC North for BBC Radio 4)
Best Supporting Performance Valene Kane (The Stroma Sessions)
Producers: Nicolas Jackson & Steve Bond (Afonica for BBC Radio 3)
Best Debut Performance Lee Rufford (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
Director: Carl Prekopp (Goldhawk Essential for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single drama)		 The Sky is Wider by Linda Marshall Griffiths
Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC North for BBC Radio 4)
  • Comment is Free by James Fritz
    Producer: Becky Ripley (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • Commendation: Jump Blue by Hannah Silva
    Producers: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Life Lines by Al Smith
Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • The Archers: "Helen’s trial week" by Tim Stimpson
    Editor: Sean O'Connor (BBC Radio 4)
  • Tracks by Matthew Broughton
    Producers: James Robinson, Helen Perry and Abigail le Fleming
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 Blood, Sex and Money (episode 9) by Émile Zola, adapted by Oliver Emanuel, Martin Jameson, Lavinia Murray and Dan Rebellato
Producers: Gary Brown, Pauline Harris, Nadia Molinari, Polly Thomas, Kirsty Williams (BBC North, BBC Scotland & Sparklab Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Tracks (episode 1), sound by Nigel Lewis
Producers: James Robinson, Helen Perry and Abigail le Fleming (BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
  • Mary Rose, sound by Laura Moody, Peter Ringrose, Ross Burman and Alison Craig
    Producer: Abigail le Fleming (BBC Radio 3)
  • The Sky is Wider, sound by Steve Brooke
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC North for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy Drama Secret Kebabs by Christine Entwisle
Producer: Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Studio Audience) 		Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopedia of Evolution by Rob Newman
Producer: Jonathan Harvey (Hat Trick Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama Doctor Who: Absent Friends by John Dorney
Producer: David Richardson (Big Finish Productions)
Imison Award Comment is Free by James Fritz
Producer: Rebecca Ripley (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • Community Service by Jonny O’Neill
  • The Virtues of Oblivion by James Meek
Tinniswood Award Comment is Free by James Fritz
Producer: Rebecca Ripley (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
  • A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel
  • The Stroma Sessions by Timothy X Atack

2016

The ceremony took place on 31 January 2016 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2014 and 31 October 2015 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.[24]

5th annual awards – Host: Lenny Henry
Award Winner Other finalists[25]
Lifetime Achievement June Whitfield –
Outstanding Contribution John Hurt –
Best Actor Alfred Molina (A View from the Bridge)
(Jarvis & Ayres Productions for BBC Radio 3)
Best Actress Monica Dolan (Vincent in Brixton)
(BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
Best Supporting Performance Susan Wokoma (Three Strong Women)
(BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4)
Best Debut Performance Karen Bartke (My Name is...)
(BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single play)		 Cuttin’ It by Charlene James
Producer: Jessica Brown (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
  • Dream of White Horses by Linda Marshall Griffiths
    Producer: Nadia Molinari
  • Monster by Tony Pitts
    Producer: Sally Harrison
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Children in Need: D for Dexter by Amanda Whittington
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery (BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, dramatized by Lucy Catherine
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Fugue State, sound by Julian Simpson and David Thomas
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • Mayday Mayday, composed by Aaron May
    Producer: Becky Ripley
  • Fright Night: Ring, sound by Catherine Robinson
    Producer: James Robinson
Best Scripted Comedy Drama In and Out of the Kitchen by Justin Edwards
Producer: Sam Michell (BBC Radio Comedy for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Studio Audience) 		Reluctant Persuaders (Episode 3) by Edward Rowett
Producer: Gordon Kennedy (Absolutely Productions for BBC Radio 4)
Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama The Kindness of Time by Deirdre Burton and Tom Davis
Producer: Rosie Boulton (Monty Funk Productions)
Imison Award 30 Eggs by Eoin O'Connor

(BBC Northern Ireland for BBC Radio 4)

  • A Thing Inside a Thing Inside a Thing by Iain AJ Ross
  • The Churchill Barriers by Emma Spurgin Hussey
Tinniswood Award Fugue State by Julian Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4)
  • Far Side of the Moore by Sean Grundy
  • Vampyre Man by Joseph O'Connor

2015

The ceremony took place on 1 February 2015 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2013 and 31 October 2014 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. 2015 saw the two Best Supporting Performance awards merged once again into a single category covering both male and female performers, but introduced a new category; Best Debut Performance.[26]

4th annual awards – Host: Lenny Henry
Award Winner Other finalists[27]
Lifetime Achievement Stanley Baxter –
Outstanding Contribution Neil Gaiman –
Best Actor Ian McKellen (Eugénie Grandet) by Honoré de Balzac, dramatised by Rose Tremain
Producer: Gordon House (BBC Radio 4)
Best Actress Aisling Loftus (Educator) by Hayley Squires
Producer: Helen Perry (BBC Radio 3)
  • Charlotte Riley (Slipping) by Claudine Toutoungi
    Producer: Liz Webb (Radio 4)
  • Ellie Kendrick (How to Say Goodbye Properly) by E. V. Crowe
    Producer: Abigail Le Fleming (Radio 4)
Best Supporting Performance Michelle Terry (Educator) by Hayley Squires
Producer: Helen Perry (Radio 3)
Best Debut Performance Jade Matthew (A Kidnapping) by Andy Mulligan
Producers: John Dryden and Nadir Khan (Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single play)		 Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel by Pejk Malinovski
Producer: Pejk Malinovski (Radio 3)
  • Everyday Time Machines by Al Smith
    Producer: Sally Avens (Radio 3)
  • Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts
    Producer: Susan Roberts (Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 Ambiguous Loss by Michael Butt
Producer: Toby Swift (Radio 4)
  • Holding On To You by D. L. Weller
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (Radio 4)
  • The Seventh Test by Ayeesha Menon & John Dryden
    Producers: John Dryden and Nadir Khan (Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 Come to Grief adapted by Hannah Vincent
Producer: Gordon House (Radio 4)
  • Porcelain adapted by Ian Kershaw
    Producer: Susan Roberts (Radio 4)
  • The Seventh Test adapted by Ayeesha Menon & John Dryden
    Producer: John Dryden and Nadir Khan (Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama The Boy at the Back by Juan Mayorga, sound design by Steve Bond
Producer: Nicolas Jackson (Radio 3)
Best Scripted Comedy Drama Lunch by Marcy Kahan
Producer: Sally Avens (Radio 4)
  • Believe It: Victor by Jon Canter
    Producer: Clive Brill (Radio 4)
  • I'm a Believer by Jon Canter
    Producer: Jonquil Panting (Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Studio Audience) 		John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore
Producer: Ed Morrish (Radio 4)
Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama Hood: The Scribe of Sherwood by Iain Meadows
Producer: Iain Meadows (Spiteful Puppet)
Imison Award How To Say Goodbye Properly by E. V. Crowe
  • Goodbye by Morwenna Banks
  • The Man in the Lift by Tom Connolly
  • Paris, Nana and Me by Caroline Horton
Tinniswood Award Goodbye by Morwenna Banks

2014

The ceremony took place on 26 January 2014 and covers audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2012 and 31 October 2013 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. The award for Best Scripted Comedy was split into two (Best Scripted Comedy Drama and Best Scripted Comedy – Studio Audience) and two new awards were introduced; the Lifetime Achievement award and the Outstanding Contribution award.[28]

3rd annual awards – Host: Lenny Henry
Award Winner Other finalists[29]
Lifetime Achievement June Spencer –
Outstanding Contribution Claire Grove –
Best Actor Lee Ross (King David)
Producer: Mary Peate (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 3)
Best Actress Christine Bottomley (My Boy)
Producer: Polly Thomas (Somethin' Else for BBC Radio 4)
  • Carly Bawden (The Colour of Milk)
    Producer: Susan Roberts (BBC Radio Drama Salford for BBC Radio 4)
  • Marcia Warren (Tony and Rose)
    Producer: Celia de Wolff (Pier Productions for Radio 4)
Best Supporting Actor Shaun Dooley (The Gothic Imagination: Frankenstein)
Producer: Marc Beeby (BBC Radio Drama London for Radio 4)
  • Geoffrey Bretton (Imaginary Boys)
    Producer: Scott Handcock (BBC Radio Drama Cymru/Wales for Radio 4)
  • David Rasche (Warrior Class)
    Producer: Judith Kampfner (Corporation For Independent Media for Radio 4)
Best Supporting Actress Claire Rushbrook (King David)
Producer: Mary Peate (BBC Radio Drama London for Radio 3)
  • Lia Williams (FindthePerfectPartner4u.com)
    Producer: Gordon House (Goldhawk Essential for Radio 4)
  • Lacey Turner (The One About the Social Worker)
    Producer: Jonquil Panting (BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single play)		 Billions by Ed Harris
Producer: Jonquil Panting (BBC Radio Drama London for Radio 4)
  • The Gestapo Minutes by Adam Ganz
    Producer: Catherine Bailey (Catherine Bailey Productions for Radio 4)
  • The Sleeper by Michael Symmons Roberts
    Producer: Susan Roberts (BBC Radio Drama Salford for Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)		 An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame, adapted by Anita Sullivan
Producer: Karen Rose (Sweet Talk for Radio 4)
  • The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles by Esther Wilson
    Producer: Pauline Harris (BBC Radio Drama Salford for Radio 4)
  • Takes Two to Tandem by Lavinia Murray
    Producer: Sharon Sephton (BBC Radio Drama Salford for Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)		 Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh, dramatised by Jeremy Front
Producer: Sally Avens (BBC Radio Drama London for Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama He Died with His Eyes Open; sound design by Caleb Knightley
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama London for Radio 4)
  • Forever Mankind
    Producers: Judith Kampfner and Jonathan Mitchell (Corporation For Independent Media for Radio 4)
  • Saturday Night & Sunday Morning; sound design by David Chilton
    Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown (Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy Drama Love and Sweets 3: Grand Canyon by Richard Marsh
Producer: Ben Worsfield (Lucky Giant for Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
(Studio Audience) 		Sketchorama: Absolutely Special by Peter Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes
Producer: Gus Beattie (The Comedy Unit for BBC Radio 4)
  • Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore
    Producer: David Tyler (Pozzitive for BBC Radio 4)
  • Love and Sweets 2: The Perfect Match by Richard Marsh
    Producer: Ben Worsfield (Lucky Giant for Radio 4)
Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama Doctor Who: Dark Eyes by Nicholas Briggs
Producer: Martin Montague (Big Finish Productions)
Imison Award The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman by Joseph Wilde with Tim Van Eyken
Tinniswood Award Marathon Tales by Colin Teevan and Hannah Silva
  • Commendation: Once Upon A Time There Was A Beatrix by Lavinia Murray
  • Dusty Won’t Play by Annie Caulfield
  • Imo & Ben by Mark Ravenhill

2013

The ceremony took place on 27 January 2013 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2011 and 30 September 2012 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. The award for Best Audio Drama Award was split into two (Single Play and Serial) as was the award for Best Supporting Performance (Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress). The Innovation award was retired.[30]

2nd annual awards – Host: David Tennant
Award Winner Other finalists[31]
Best Actor
Presented by Penelope Wilton		 Andrew Scott
Betrayal by Harold Pinter (BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 4)
Best Actress
Presented by Stephen Tompkinson		 Michelle Fairley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild (BBC Scotland, Radio 4)
Best Supporting Actor
Presented by Maxine Peake		 David Troughton
Singles and Doublets by Martyn Wade (BBC Radio 3)
Best Supporting Actress
Presented by Stephen Mangan		 Vicky McClure
Kicking the Air by Christine Murphy (BBC Northern Ireland, Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Single play)
Presented by Lenny Henry		 On It by Tony Pitts
Producer: Sally Harrison (Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Series or Serial)
Presented by Patricia Cumper		 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll, abridged by Helen Meller
Producer: Polly Thomas (Radio 4)
Best Audio Drama
(Adaptation)
Presented by Nick Dear		 A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, dramatised by Tanika Gupta
Producer: Nadia Molinari (BBC North, Radio 3)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama
Presented by Siân Phillips		 The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher
Producer: Marc Beeby (Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy
Presented by Nicholas Parsons		 Believe It! by Jon Canter
Producer: Clive Brill (Radio 4)
  • Alice's Wunderland by Alice Lowe
    Producer: Sam Bryant (Radio 4)
  • I, Regress by Matt Berry
    Producer: Sam Bryant (Radio 4)
Best Online Only Audio Drama
Presented by Joseph Millson		 Above and Below by Daniel Macnaughton
Producer: Daniel Macnaughton (Aboveandbelowseries.co.uk)
  • The Minister of Chance by Dan Freeman
    Producer: Dan Freeman (Radio Static for ministerofchance.com)
  • Varanasi by Silva Semerciyan
    Producer: Graham Pountney (Screentest Productions for varanasi.theradioplay.com)
Imison Award (2012)
Presented by Andrew Davies		 Do You Like Banana, Comrades? by Csaba Székely (Radio 4)
  • The Day We Caught the Train by Nick Payne
  • The Takeover by Paul Sellar
Tinniswood Award (2012)
Presented by Andrew Davies		 Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold (Radio 3)

2012

The inaugural ceremony took place on 29 January 2012 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.[1]

Inaugural awards – Host: David Tennant
Award Winner Other finalists[3]
Best Audio Drama
Presented by Johnny Vegas		 Lost Property – The Year My Mother Went Missing by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole (BBC Radio 4)
  • A Shoebox of Snow by Julie Mayhew
    (Producer: Justine Potter (Radio 4)
  • The First Domino by Jonathan Cash
    Producer: Frank Stirling (Radio 3)
Best Actor
Presented by Tim Davie		 David Tennant
Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold (BBC Radio 3)
Best Actress
Presented by Don Warrington		 Rosie Cavaliero
Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen by Katie Hims (Radio 4)
  • Candis Nergaard
    Atching Tan by Dan Allum (Radio 4)
  • June Whitfield
    A Montrous Vitality by Andy Merriman (Radio 4)
Best Supporting Actor/Actress
Presented by June Whitfield		 Andrew Scott
Referee by Nick Perry (Radio 4)
Best Scripted Comedy Drama
Presented by Richard Wilson		 Floating by Hugh Hughes
Producer: James Robinson (Radio 4)
Best Online Only Audio Drama
Presented by Julie Myerson		 Rock by Tim Fountain
Producer: Iain Mackness (The Independent Online)
  • Wild Hackney
    Producer: Francesca Panetta (Hackney Podcast)
Best Adaptation
Presented by Nina Wadia		 The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer (Radio 4)
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama
Presented by Bertie Carvel		 Bad Memories by Julian Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose (Radio 4)
  • Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Wilkinson
    Producer: Nadia Molinari (Radio 4)
  • The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
    Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer (Radio 4)
Innovation Award
Presented by Niamh Cusack		 The Unfortunates adapted by Graham White
Producer: Mary Peate (Radio 3)
  • Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Cross
    Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery (BBC Bristol, Radio 4)
  • Wild Hackney
    Producer: Francesca Panetta (Hackney Podcast)
Imison Award (2010)
Presented by David Edgar		 Amazing Grace by Michelle Lipton (Radio 4)
  • Atching Tan by Dan Allum (Radio 4)
  • The Pursuit by Matt Hartley
  • The Barber and the Ark by Marcia Layne
Tinniswood Award (2010)
Presented by David Edgar		 Gerontius by Stephen Wyatt (Radio 4)

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