The Newshour team celebrate their win
The BBC World Service swept the board at the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards held in London on Monday night.
The World Service picked up nine awards, four of them gold.
The results were:
GOLD for
Newshour - Best News and Current Affairs Programme
GOLD for
Owen Bennett-Jones - News Journalist of the Year
GOLD for
World Have Your Say in the Listener Participation Award
GOLD for the
Bangladesh Boat Project in the Multiplatform Radio Award
SILVER for the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto in the Breaking News Award
SILVER for
Benazir Bhutto: the Investigation in the News Feature Award
SILVER for
The Interview in the Speech Programme Award
BRONZE for Live Event Coverage Award for the
World Today: Chinese Congress
BRONZE in the Promo Award for '
India Rising'.
For more details on the Sony winners, click here.
