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BBC announces audio drama awards shortlist

January 9, 2012 - Staff@seenituk

The BBC has unveiled the shortlist for its inaugural Audio Drama Awards, aimed at celebrating “the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online”. The winners will be announced on Sunday 29th January 2012 in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House. The ceremony will bepresented by actor David Tennant.

Unlike other recent BBC awards lists, the Audio Drama shortlist contains women, no pandas and wasn’t judged by the staff of lads mags.

In conjunction with the Society of Authors and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, The Imison and Tinniswood Awards will also be announced and presented by playwright and Guild President, David Edgar.

The shortlist for each category is as follows:

Best Audio Drama:
(Judges: Lord Hall, Razia Iqbal, Sarah Sands)
• A Shoebox Of Snow by Julie Mayhew
Producer: Justine Potter, Red Production Company for Radio 4
• Lost Property – The Year My Mother Went Missing by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
• The First Domino by Jonathan Cash
Producer: Frank Stirling, Unique Broadcasting Company for Radio 3
 
Best Actor in an Audio Drama:
(Judges: Ian Brown, Lisa Campbell, Dame Harriet Walter CBE)
• Damian Lewis, Giovanni’s Room dramatised by Neil Bartlett
Producer: Turan Ali, Bona Broadcasting for Radio 3
• David Tennant, Kafka: The Musical by Murray Gold
Producer: Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama 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:
(Judges: Michael Billington, Kate Harwood, Robin Lustig)
• Candis Nergaard, Atching Tan by Dan Allum
Producer: Charlotte Riches, BBC Audio Drama North for Radio 4
• June Whitfield, A Montrous Vitality by Andy Merriman
Producer: David Hunter, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
• Rosie Cavaliero, Lost Property: A Telegram From The Queen by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
 
Best Supporting Actor/Actress in an Audio Drama:
(Judges: Daniel Evans, Gillian Reynolds, Imogen Stubbs)
• Andrew Scott, Referee by Nick Perry
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
• 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:
(Judges: Andrew Davies, Christopher William Hill, Miranda Sawyer)
• Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore
Producer: David Tyler, Pozzitive for Radio 4
• Ed Reardon’s Week by Christopher Douglas
Producer: Dawn Ellis, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4
• Floating by Hugh Hughes
Producer: James Robinson, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
 
Best Online Only Audio Drama:
(Judges: Nicolas Kent, Julie Myerson, Jane Thynne)
• Rock by Tim Fountain
Producer: Iain Mackness, Made in Manchester for The Independent Online
• Wild Hackney
Producer: Francesca Panetta for Hackney Podcast

Best Adaptation:
(Judges: Viv Gardner, Maxine Peak, Fiammetta Rocco)
• 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
• The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
 
Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama:
(Judges: Kevin Brew, John Hardy, Elisabeth Mahoney)
• Bad Memories by Julian Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for Radio 4
• Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Wilkinson
Producer: Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North for Radio 4
• The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley
Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4

Innovation Award:
(Judges: Susannah Clapp, Rupert Goold, Stephen Wright)
• Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Cross
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Bristol for Radio 4
• The Unfortunates adapted by Graham White
Producer: Mary Peate, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 3
• Wild Hackney
Producer: Francesca Panetta for Hackney Podcast
 
Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script broadcast in 2010 by a new writer:
• Atching Tan by Dan Allum
• The Pursuit by Matt Hartley
• The Barber and the Ark by Marcia Layne
• Amazing Grace by Michelle Lipton
(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 Tinniswood Award shortlist for Best Radio Drama Script broadcast in 2010:
• The Climb by Andrea Earl
• Sarah and Ken by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
• Setting a Glass by Nick Warburton
• Gerontius by Stephen Wyatt
(Judges: Robert Bathurst, Paul Donovan, Nell Leyshon)
 

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