The Radio Academy announces ARIAS winners

Following up on last week’s The Radio Academy ARIAS 2024 awards presentation, the academy has released a list of the recipients.

Best New Presenter

Gold: Caroline Steel — BBC Science Radio Unit
Silver: Rob Burrow — BBC Radio Leeds
Bronze: Ali Ali — Prison Radio Association

Best New Radio Show

Gold: Tim’s Listening Party — Absolute Radio
Silver: Unexpected Elements — BBC World Service
Bronze: Takeover Tuesdays — Prison Radio Association

Best New Podcast

Gold: Seven: Rob Burrow — BBC Radio Leeds
Silver: Near Death — BFBS
Bronze: Springleaf — Mighty Bunny

Best Speech Presenter

Gold: Marianna Spring — BBC Radio 4
Silver: Zak and Jules: Life After Prison — Prison Radio Association
Bronze: Jack Boswell — Flaneur Productions

Best Speech Breakfast Show

Gold: Matt Bailey at Breakfast — BBC Radio Newcastle
Silver: talkSPORT Breakfast — talkSPORT
Bronze: 5 Live Breakfast — BBC Radio 5 Live

Best News Coverage

Gold: Shiny Bob: The Devil’s Advocate — BBC Scotland News
Silver: Israel-Hamas War Coverage — Times Radio
Bronze: Pod Save The UK — Reduced Listening/Crooked Media

Best Sports Coverage

Gold: GameDay — talkSPORT
Silver: Everton: Nothing Will Be The Same — BBC Studios
Bronze: Sportsworld — BBC World Service

Best Coverage of an Event

Gold: Windrush 75 — Spiritland Productions for BBC Radio 2
Silver: Clyde 1 — The First 50 Years — Clyde 1
Bronze: The Great North Run — Metro Radio

The Comedy Award

Gold: Laura Smyth: I Don’t Know What To Say — BBC Studios
Silver: The Skewer — unusual for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake — Sony Music

Best Music Breakfast Show

Gold: Boogie in the Morning — Forth 1
Silver: Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo and Rosie — Pulse 1
Bronze: The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show—- BBC Radio 2

Best Music Entertainment Show

Gold: Scott Mills — BBC Radio 2
Silver: National Prison Radio’s Rock Show — Prison Radio Association
Bronze: Penny Smith — Scala Radio

Best Specialist Music Show

Gold: Free Flow — Prison Radio Association
Silver: Classical Connections — Radio with Alexis Ffrench — Apple Music Radio
Bronze: Folk on Foot

Best Music Special

Gold: 21st Century Folk — 7digital Creative for BBC Radio 2
Silver: Change Your Tune — Podcart for The Bach Choir
Bronze: How The UK Changed Hip Hop Forever — BBC Audio

Best Factual — Single Program

Gold: File on 4 — Jon Holmes, Generation Shame — BBC Radio 4
Silver: Children Locked Away: Britain’s Modern Bedlam — Tortoise Media
Bronze: Inside an Autistic Mind — Boffin Media for BBC News World Service

Best Factual Series

Gold: Terri White: Finding Britain’s Ghost Children — BBC Radio 5 Live
Silver: White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer — Whistledown Productions
Bronze: I Am Not Nicholas — BBC Studios for Audible

Best Drama

Gold: The Sisters — Goldhawk Productions for Realm FM, in Association with Lights Out
Silver: Sherlock & Co — Goalhanger
Bronze: Hamlet Noir — Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3

Best Audio Book or Reading

Gold: Open Throat — BBC Audio Wales and the West of England
Silver: Rave New World — Bonnier Books UK
Bronze: Alan Partridge: Big Beacon — Orion Publishing

Best Station Sound

Gold: BBC Radio 1Xtra
Silver: Absolute Radio
Bronze: talkSPORT

Best Commercial Partnership

Gold: A Place To Call Home — Audio Always
Silver: Change Your Tune — Podcart for The Bach Choir
Bronze: Today with tonies — Mags Creative

Best Local Show

Gold: Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie — Pulse 1
Silver: The Graham Liver Breakfast Show — BBC Radio Lancashire
Bronze: Boogie in the Morning — Forth 1

The Impact Award

Gold: Stoma Swimmer — BBC Radio Newcastle
Silver: Seven: Rob Burrow — Radio BBC Leeds
Bronze: Different: Nicky Campbell — Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live

The Creative Innovation Award

Gold: Seven: Rob Burrow — BBC Radio Leeds
Silver: My Dream Dinner Party — Series 5 — Tuning Fork for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: Hamlet Noir — Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3

The Grassroots Award

Gold: Three Ways to Save a Life — BBC Radio Manchester
Silver: 300 Seconds Podcast — Ocean Youth Radio
Bronze: Life After Prison — Prison Radio Association

Community Station of The Year

Gold: RNIB Connect Radio
Silver: Radio Platfform
Bronze: ALL FM

The John Meyers Station of the Year Award

Gold: BBC Radio Manchester
Silver: Reform Radio
Bronze: Clyde 1

UK Station or Network of the Year

Gold: BBC Asian Network
Silver: talkSPORT
Bronze: Fun Kids

Radio Times Moment of the Year — voted by the public

“Have you ever told a lie?” — BBC Radio Nottingham
John Robins reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery — BBC Radio 5 Live
Adrian Edmondson remembers Rik Mayall — BBC Radio 4
Isabel Oakeshott’s Hancock hang-up — Times Radio
Jennie Longdon reveals the impact OCD has on her daily life — Absolute Radio
Ken Bruce joins Greatest Hits Radio — Greatest Hits Radio
Letters to the Lionesses — talkSPORT
Luton Town are promoted to the Premier League — BBC 3 Counties
Nicky Campbell speaks to the daughter of his abuser — BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
Rob Burrow carried over the finish line — BBC Radio Leeds

The Pioneer Award