Audio Drama Awards 2025 – The Winners

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 28 March 2025 at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

WINNER: Central Intelligence

WINNER: Bill Dare

WINNER: The Invitation by Katherine Chandler, producer John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West

COMMENDATION: Nearly Light by Kit Withington, producer Jelena Budimir, Naked Productions

WINNER: Life Lines by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, BBC Studios Audio London

WINNER: Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns, adapted by Gary McNair, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland

COMMENDATION: Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, producers Mary Peate and Jessica Dromgoole, Hooley Productions

WINNER: Sean Bean, Antigone, director Pauline Harris, BBC Studios Audio London

WINNER: Cecilia Appiah, Oleanna, director Gary Brown, BBC Studios Audio Salford

COMMENDATION: Michelle Fairley, Hello, I Appear to Have Killed My Husband, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland

COMMENDATION: Kate O’Flynn, Spores, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica

WINNER: Rosie Cavaliero, The Train at Platform 4, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio

WINNER: Mae Munuo, Tribe of Two, director Jesse Fox, Afonica

WINNER: Rum Punch by Travis Jay, producer Daisy Knight, Avalon

WINNER: Janey Godley: the C Bomb Series 2 by Janey Godley with Ashley Storrie, producer Julia Sutherland, Dabster Productions

COMMENDATION: Munya Chawawa’s Election Doom Scroll by Munya Chawawa, Matthew Crosby, James Farmer and Joe McArdle, producers Jo Maney and Ben Wicks, Expectation TV

WINNER: Restless Dreams, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producers Eloise Whitmore and Polly Thomas, Naked Productions

WINNER: The Skies Are Watching written and produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto, Goldhawk Productions

COMMENDATION: Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions

WINNER: The Fall of Lapinville by Benjamin Abitan, Laura Fredducci & Wladimir Anselme, produced by Virginie Lacoste, Sahar Pirouz & Jacques Falgous for ARTE Studio / ARTE Radio, France

WINNER: Tether by Isley Lynn, producer Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Wales and West

WINNER: Man Friday by Edson Burton, producer Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Audio Wales and West