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2023 marked the centenary year for audio/radio drama at the 91Èȱ¬. For 100 years of this unique genre, audio drama and comedy have provided enjoyment, diversion, illumination, insight and escape for listeners, evolving in approach and style as audio practitioners have responded to new ideas and technology with ingenuity, imagination and inspiration.

These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers and all who work in this vibrant art-form.

The winners were announced on Sunday 24 March 2024 at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at 91Èȱ¬ Broadcasting House, London. The winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards (judged and administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) were also announced at this ceremony.

WINNER: Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz, producer Sally Avens, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

Eat and Run by Paolo Chianta, producer Lorna Newman, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

WINNER: Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward, adapted by Roy Williams, producer Gill Parry, feral inc

COMMENDATION: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, producer Nadia Molinari, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

COMMENDATION: Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

WINNER: Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

COMMENDATION: There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions

Flirties, written and produced by Jess Hamilton, Audiocraft

WINNER: Hiran Abeysekera, Dear Harry Kane, director Sally Avens, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: Lorn Macdonald, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, director Kirsty Williams, 91Èȱ¬ Scotland

Tim McInnerny, Benny & Hitch, director Tracey Neale, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

WINNER: Rosamund Pike, People Who Knew Me, director Daniella Isaacs, Merman

Gabrielle Brooks, Bess Loves Porgy, director Michael Buffong, feral inc

Maxine Peake, The Women of Troy, director Nadia Molinari, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

WINNER: Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, directors Polly Thomas and Dermot Daly, Naked Productions

Sacha Dhawan, Anna Karenina, director Nadia Molinari, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

WINNER: Rosalind Eleazar, Hindsight, director Gaynor Macfarlane, 91Èȱ¬ Scotland

COMMENDATION: Jadie Rose Hobson, Exposure, director Anne Isger, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: Dan Parr, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, director Tracey Neale, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

WINNER: Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, 91Èȱ¬ Studios Audio

Call Jonathan Pie by Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O’Shaughnessy, producer Emma Harding, 91Èȱ¬ Cymru Wales

WINNER: Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer Georgia Keating, 91Èȱ¬ Studios Audio

COMMENDATION: Janey Godley: the C Bomb by Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions

Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, 91Èȱ¬ Studios Audio

WINNER: Hamlet Noir, sound by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen, producers Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black, Almost Tangible

The Dark is Rising, sound by Gareth Fry, producers Catherine Bailey and Tim Bell, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicité

The Women of Troy, sound by Sharon Hughes, producer Nadia Molinari, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North

WINNER: Badger and the Blitz by Richard Turley and Darren Francis, producer Richard Turley, ROXO

The Salvation by Justin Lockey, Jeffrey Aidoo, and AK Benedict, producers John Hamm and Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain and Free Turn

Tagged by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden, producer Emma Hearn, Sony Music Entertainment and Goldhawk Productions

WINNER: This Word by Marta Rebzda, producer Waldemar Modestowicz, Polish Radio Theatre

Faust (I Never Read It) by Noam Brusilovsky, producer Andrea Oetzmann, SWR Südwestrundfunk with Deutschlandfunk

The Supervisor by Nis-Momme Stockmann, producer Michael Becker, NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk

WINNER: Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: In Moderation by Katie Bonna, producer Sally Avens, 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama London

Happy Hour by Liv Fowler, producer Jelena Budimir, Naked Productions

WINNER: Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones, producer John Norton, 91Èȱ¬ Cymru Wales

About a Dog by Huw Brentnall, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions

Ghosted by Lindsay Sharman, directed by the author for Long Cat Media

Scooters, Shooters and Shottas by John R Gordon, director Rikki Beadle-Blair, Urban Wolf for Team Angelica/The Art Machine

Oliver Emanuel, presented by Dan Rebellato.

Graeme Garden, presented by Charlotte Moore.