
Janey Godley, Maisie Adam, Olga Koch, Rob Newman, Sarah Keyworth and Daliso Chaponda are nominated for the Best Stand Up Comedy Award in the BBC Audio Drama Awards.
Tom Walker, the actor behind character Jonathan Pie, is up for two awards, as Best Actor and for Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama for Call Jonathan Pie, by Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio.
2023 marked the centenary year for audio/radio drama at the BBC. 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 will be announced on Sunday 24 March 2024 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House London.
Best Original Single Drama
- Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
- Churchill versus Reith by Mike Harris, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North
- Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
- Eat and Run by Paolo Chianta, producer Lorna Newman, BBC Audio Drama North
- Rare Earth by Richard Monks, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
- Voices From the End of the World by Lucy Catherine, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London
Best Adaptation
- The Age of Anxiety by W.H.Auden, adapted by Robin Brooks, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions
- Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama London
- Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward, adapted by Roy Williams, producer Gill Parry, feral inc
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, adapted by Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicite
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
- One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard, adapted by Rhiannon Boyle, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales
Best Original Series or Serial
- The 5000 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producers Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
- An Eye for a Killing by Colin Macdonald, producer Bruce Young, BBC Scotland
- Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft
- There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
- The Tomb by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producer Joby Waldman, Reduced Listening
- Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Actor
- Hiran Abeysekera, Dear Harry Kane, director Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
- Max Irons, The Bronze Horseman, director Susan Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North
- Toby Jones, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
- Lorn Macdonald, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland
- Tim McInerny, Benny & Hitch, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
- Tom Walker, Call Jonathan Pie, Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio
Best Actress
- Gabrielle Brooks, Bess Loves Porgy, director Michael Buffong, feral inc
- Dinita Gohil, Victory City, producer Alison Crawford, BBC Bristol
- Maxine Peake, The Women of Troy, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
- Rosamund Pike, People Who Knew Me, director Daniella Isaacs, Merman
- Lydia Wilson, Happy Birthday, Mr President, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
- Fenella Woolgar, Lines in the Sand: The Journeys of Gertrude Bell, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Supporting Performance
- Sacha Dhawan, Anna Karenina, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
- Erin Doherty, The Seagull, director Toby Swift, BBC Audio Drama London
- Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions
- Sophia Del Pizzo, There’s Something I Need to Tell You, director John Scott Dryden, Goldhawk Productions
The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance
- Izzy Campbell, Of a Night, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North
- Rosie Ekenna, Faith, Hope and Glory, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, BBC Audio Drama London
- Rosalind Eleazar, Hindsight, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
- Jadie Rose Hobson, Exposure, director Anne Isger, BBC Audio Drama London
- Dan Parr, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
- Olivia Triste, Rise, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions
Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama
- Call Jonathan Pie by Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio
- Kat Sadler’s Screen Time by Kat Sadler and Cameron Loxdale, producer Gwyn Rhys Davies, BBC Studios Audio
- Michael Spicer: Before Next Door by Michael Spicer, producer Matt Tiller, Starstruck Media
- Mockery Manor by Lindsay Sharman, producer Laurence Owen, Long Cat Media
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O’Shaughnessy, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales
- Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
Best Stand Up Comedy
- Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere by Daliso Chaponda, additional material Meryl O’Rourke, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
- Janey Godley: The C Bomb by Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions
- Maisie Adam: The Beautiful Game by Maisie Adam, producer Georgia Keating, BBC Studios Audio
- Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios Audio
- Rob Newman on Air by Rob Newman, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
- Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio
Best Use of Sound
- The Adventurers, sound by Alisdair McGregor, producer Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain
- The Dark is Rising, sound by Gareth Fry, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicité
- Hamlet Noir, sound by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen, producers Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black, Almost Tangible
- Slow Air, sound by Alisdair McGregor and Eloise Whitmore, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions
- Voices From the End of the World, sound by Peter Ringrose, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London
- The Women of Troy, sound by Sharon Hughes, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Podcast Audio Drama
- Badger and the Blitz by Richard Turley and Darren Francis, producer Richard Turley, Roxo Ltd
- Below by Aaron Gray and Paul Skillen, producer John Wakefield, HTM Television
- Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft
- The Haunter of the Dark – The Lovecraft Investigations by Julian Simpson, producer Sarah Tombling, Sweet Talk Productions
- 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
Best European Drama
- Evicted by Karel Klostermann, adapted by Tomáš Loužný, producer Renata Venclová, CZR Czech Radio
- Faust (I Never Read It) by Noam Brusilovsky, producer Andrea Oetzmann, SWR Südwestrundfunk with Deutschlandfunk
- Irina’s Soul Is Like a Precious Piano by Rona Žulj, producer Katja Šimunić, Croatian Radiotelevision
- The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave, adapted by Kai Grehn, producer Lina Kokaly, Radio Bremen
- The Supervisor by Nis-Momme Stockmann, producer Michael Becker, NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk
- This Word by Marta Rebzda, producer Waldemar Modestowicz, Polish Radio Theatre