BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024 finalists

These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers and all who work in this vibrant art-form.

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, producers Catherine Bailey and Tim Bell, 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 Hamilton, 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, producers Joby Waldman and Steve Bond, 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 McInnerny, 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, producers Mair Bosworth and Mary Ward-Lowery, 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, directors Polly Thomas and 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, producers Eloise Whitmore and Jon Harvey, Naked Productions
• Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer Georgia Keating, 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, producers Catherine Bailey and Tim Bell, 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
• Below by Aaron Gray and Paul Skillen, producer John Wakefield, HTM Television
• Flirties, written and produced by Jess Hamilton, 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