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
- Annie Nightingale
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