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BBC announces winners for first ever BBC Audio Drama Awards

BBC Press Office

29 January 2012

The awards aim to celebrate and recognise the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers, and others who work in the genre.
In conjunction with the Society of Authors and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, the winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards were also announced and presented by playwright and Guild President, David Edgar.
The winners of the BBC Audio Drama Awards in each category are as follows:
• Best Audio Drama:
Lost Property – The Year My Mother Went Missing by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
Award presented by: Johnny Vegas
Judges: Lord Hall, Razia Iqbal, Sarah Sands
• Best Actor in an Audio Drama:
David Tennant, Kafka: The Musical by Murray Gold
Producer: Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 3
Award presented by: Tim Davie, Director, BBC A&M
Judges: Ian Brown, Lisa Campbell, Dame Harriet Walter
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama:
Rosie Cavaliero, Lost Property: A Telegram From The Queen by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
Award presented by: Don Warrington
Judges: Michael Billington, Kate Harwood, Robin Lustig
• Best Supporting Actor/Actress in an Audio Drama:
Andrew Scott, Referee by Nick Perry
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
Award presented by: June Whitfield
Judges: Daniel Evans, Gillian Reynolds, Imogen Stubbs
• Best Scripted Comedy Drama:
Floating by Hugh Hughes
Producer: James Robinson, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
Award presented by: Richard Wilson
Judges: Andrew Davies, Christopher William Hill, Miranda Sawyer
• Best Online Only Audio Drama
Rock by Tim Fountain
Producer: Iain Mackness, Made in Manchester for The Independent Online
Award presented by: Julie Myerson
Judges: Nicolas Kent, Julie Myerson, Jane Thynne
• Best Adaptation:
The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
Award presented by: Nina Wadia
Judges: Viv Gardner, Maxine Peak, Fiammetta Rocco
• Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama:
Bad Memories by Julian Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for Radio 4
Award presented by: Bertie Carval
Judges: Kevin Brew, John Hardy, Elisabeth Mahoney
• Innovation Award:
The Unfortunates adapted by Graham White
Producer: Mary Peate, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 3
Award presented by: Niamh Cusack
Judges: Susannah Clapp, Rupert Goold, Stephen Wright
The winner of the Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script broadcast in 2010 by a new writer is: Amazing Grace by Michelle Lipton
Award presented by: David Edgar
Judges: Society of Author’s Broadcasting Committee: Alison Joseph, Mike Bartlett, Lucy Caldwell, Nazrin Choudhury, Christopher William Hill, Karen Liebreich, Sue Limb, Karl Sabbagh, Colin Teevan and John Taylor)
The winner of the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script broadcast in 2010 is: Gerontius by Stephen Wyatt
Award presented by: David Edgar
Judges: Robert Bathurst, Paul Donovan, Nell Leyshon
Tim Davie, Director, BBC Audio & Music, says: “These awards celebrate the cultural importance of radio drama, so I'm delighted that we have been able to honour some of the actors, writers and producers who have created outstanding programmes this year. My congratulations go to all the award winners, but I hope these awards also bring wider recognition of the many talented people who work in the genre.”
There will be an opportunity to hear some of the BBC shortlisted audio dramas again across BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra between Monday 30th January and Friday 10th February.
Notes to Editors
• The BBC Audio Drama Awards cover audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1st October 2010 and 30th September 2011 – or first uploaded/published for free listening online in the UK during the same period
• Entries were welcome from all makers of audio drama, and were not restricted to BBC broadcasts
• Each programme producer could enter up to three categories (one entry only per category)
• The audio drama had to be submitted exactly as broadcast or uploaded
• There was no entry fee
• The panel of judges taken from within and outside the BBC are:
Michael Billington, Theatre Critic, The Guardian
Kevin Brew, Producer, RTE
Ian Brown, Artistic Director, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Lisa Campbell, Editor, Broadcast
Susannah Clapp, Theatre Critic, The Observer
Andrew Davies, British Author and Screenwriter
Daniel Evans, Artistic Director, Sheffield Crucible
Viv Gardner, Professor of Theatre Studies, Manchester
Rupert Goold, Artistic Director, Headlong Theatre and Associate Director, RSC
Lord Hall of Birkenhead, Chief Executive, Royal Opera House
John Hardy, Composer
Kate Harwood, Controller, Series and Serials TV Drama
Christopher William Hill, Radio Dramatist and Playwright
Razia Iqbal, Journalist, BBC News
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director, Tricycle Theatre
Robin Lustig, Journalist, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4
Elisabeth Mahoney, Radio Critic, The Guardian
Julie Myerson, Author and Critic
Maxine Peake, Actress
Gillian Reynolds, Radio Critic, The Daily Telegraph
Fiammetta Rocco, Editor of Books and Arts, The Economist
Miranda Sawyer, Radio Critic, The Observer
Sarah Sands, Deputy Editor, Evening Standard
Imogen Stubbs, Actress and Playwright
Jane Thynne, Radio Critic, The Independent
Dame Harriet Walter CBE
Stephen Wright, Head of Drama, BBC Northern Ireland
• Best Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- The First Domino by Jonathan Cash
Producer: Frank Stirling, Unique Broadcasting Company for Radio 3
- A Shoebox Of Snow by Julie Mayhew, Producer: Justine Potter, Red Production Company for Radio 4
• Best Actor in an Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- Damian Lewis, Giovanni’s Room dramatised by Neil Bartlett
Producer: Turan Ali, Bona Broadcasting for Radio 3
- Rory Kinnear, Flare Path by Terence Rattigan
Producer: Jeremy Herrin, Catherine Bailey Productions Ltd for Radio 3
- *Special Commendation* Tom Riley, Henry’s Demons by Patrick and Henry Cockburn, Producer: Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for Radio 4
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- June Whitfield, A Monstrous Vitality by Andy Merriman
Producer: David Hunter, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
- Candis Nergaard, Atching Tan by Dan Allum
Producer: Charlotte Riches, BBC Audio Drama North for Radio 4
• Best Supporting Actor/Actress in an Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- Carl Prekopp, The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
- Rupert Penry-Jones, Flare Path by Terence Rattigan
Producer: Jeremy Herrin, Catherine Bailey Productions Ltd for Radio 3
• Best Scripted Comedy Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore
Producer: David Tyler, Pozzitive for Radio 4
- Ed Reardon’s Week co-written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds
Producer: Dawn Ellis, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4
• Best Online Only Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- Wild Hackney
Producer: Francesca Panetta and Russell Finch for Hackney Podcast (commissioned by Folly for a Flyover, part of Create London 2011)
• Best Adaptation – RUNNERS UP:
- Alone In Berlin dramatised by Shelagh Stephenson
Producer: Eoin O’Callaghan, BBC Northern Ireland for Radio 4
- Five Days In May by Matthew Solon
Producer: John Dryden, Goldhawk Productions for Radio 4
• Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
- The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
- Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Wilkinson
Producer: Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North for Radio 4
• Innovation Award – RUNNERS UP:
- Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Cross
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Bristol for Radio 4
- Wild Hackney
Producer: Francesca Panetta and Russell Finch for Hackney Podcast (commissioned by Folly for a Flyover, part of Create London 2011)
• Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script – RUNNERS UP:
- Atching Tan by Dan Allum
- The Pursuit by Matt Hartley
- The Barber and the Ark by Marcia Layne
• Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script – RUNNERS UP:
*Special Commendation* Sarah and Ken by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- The Climb by Andrea Earl
- Setting a Glass by Nick Warburton
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