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The 2025 Finalists

For over 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 will be announced on Sunday 30 March 2025 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at 大象传媒 Broadcasting House London. The winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards (judged and administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) will also be announced at this ceremony.

Best Original Single Drama

  • Franz and Felice by Ed Harris, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, 大象传媒 Studios Audio London
  • Nearly Light by Kit Withington, producer Jelena Budimir, Naked Productions
  • The Invitation by Katherine Chandler, producer John Norton, 大象传媒 Audio Wales & West

Best Original Series or Serial

  • Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, Felicity Packard and Maryam Master, producers John Scott Dryden, Emma Hearn and Jeremy Fox, Goldhawk Productions
  • Life Lines by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, 大象传媒 Studios Audio London
  • Money Gone by Ed Sellek, producers Eloise Whitmore and Tony Churnside, Naked Productions

Best Adaptation

  • Antigone by Jean Anouilh, adapted & produced by Pauline Harris, 大象传媒 Studios Audio London
  • Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, producers Mary Peate and Jessica Dromgoole, Hooley Productions
  • Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns, adapted by Gary McNair, producer Kirsty Williams, 大象传媒 Audio Scotland

Best Actor

(Clockwise from left) Wil Johnson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sean Bean in Antigone (photo credit: Andy Gott)
  • Sean Bean, Antigone, director Pauline Harris, 大象传媒 Studios Audio London
  • Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Unsinkable, directors Misha Crosby and John Mawson, Datura Studios & North Atlantic Ridge with B7 Media & Audiomarvels
  • Wil Johnson, Talawa Stories: Babydyke, director Tian Brown-Sampson, Talawa Theatre Company

Best Actress

(l to r) Michelle Fairley, Kate O'Flynn, Cecilia Appiah
  • Cecilia Appiah, Oleanna, director Gary Brown, 大象传媒 Studios Audio Salford
  • Michelle Fairley, Hello, I Appear to Have Killed My Husband, director Kirsty Williams, 大象传媒 Audio Scotland
  • Kate O’Flynn, Spores, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica

Best Comedy Performance

(l to r) Frank Skinner, Rosie Cavaliero, Randy Feltface
  • Rosie Cavaliero, The Train at Platform 4, producer James Robinson, 大象传媒 Studios Audio
  • Heath McIvor, Randy Feltface’s Destruction Manual, producer David Tyler, Pozzitive
  • Frank Skinner, Do Gooders, producer Jules Lom, Avalon

The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance

(l to r) Mae Munuo, Emma Leah Golding, Bel Odawa
  • Bel Odawa, A Grain of Wheat, director David Morley, Perfectly Normal Productions
  • Emma Leah Golding, Almonds and Raisins, directors Jessica Mitic and Gary Brown, 大象传媒 Studios Audio Salford
  • Mae Munuo, Tribe of Two, director Jesse Fox, Afonica

Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama

  • Call Jonathan Pie – The American Dream Part 2 by Tom Walker with Daniel Abelson and Will Franken, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio Productions
  • Crybabies Present… Bagbeard by Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones, producer Joe Nunnery, Boffola Pictures
  • Rum Punch by Travis Jay, producer Daisy Knight, Avalon

Best Stand Up or Sketch Comedy

  • Janey Godley: The C Bomb Series 2 by Janey Godley with Ashley Storrie, producer Julia Sutherland, Dabster Productions
  • Mark Steel’s in Town by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair, producer Carl Cooper, 大象传媒 Studios Audio
  • Munya Chawawa’s Election Doom Scroll by Munya Chawawa, Matthew Crosby, James Farmer and Joe McArdle, producers Jo Maney and Ben Wicks, Expectation TV

Best Use of Sound

(r) Jon Nicholls
  • Money Gone, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producer Tony Churnside, Naked Productions
  • Restless Dreams, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producers Eloise Whitmore and Polly Thomas, Naked Productions
  • Song From Far Away, sound by Jon Nicholls, producer Polly Thomas, Thomas Carter Projects

Best European Drama

  • Night Flights by Philippe Verkinderen, producer Grietkin Deroo, Minds Meet & VRT Max Belgium
  • The Fall of Lapinville by Benjamin Abitan, producer Chloé Asous-Plunian, Arte Radio, France
  • The Sister of Job by Marta Rebzda, producer Beata Jankowska, Polish Radio Theatre

Best Podcast Audio Drama

  • Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, Felicity Packard and Maryam Master, producers John Scott Dryden, Emma Hearn and Jeremy Fox, Goldhawk Productions
  • Doctor Who the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles by Georgia Cook, Max Kashevsky and Alfie Shaw, producer Alfie Shaw, Big Finish Productions
  • The Skies Are Watching written and produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto, Goldhawk Productions

IMISON AWARD 2025

  • Tribe of Two by Malaika Kegode, producers Jesse Fox and Nicolas Jackson, Afonica Productions
  • Tether by Isley Lynn, producer Fay Lomas, 大象传媒 Audio Wales and West
  • The Mini-Break by Chloe Myerson, producer Anne Isger, 大象传媒 Studios Audio, London
  • Under Milk Woods: Tywyn by Manon Steffan Ros, producer Emma Harding, 大象传媒 Audio Wales and West

TINNISWOOD AWARD 2025

  • Man Friday by Edson Burton, producer Mary Ward-Lowery, 大象传媒 Audio Wales and West
  • Southall Uprising by Satinder Chohan, producer Nadia Molinari, 大象传媒 Studios Audio North
  • A Tale of Ossian by Robert Forrest, producer Kirsty Williams, 大象传媒 Audio Scotland
  • Orwell v Kafka: Restless Dreams by Don Rebellato, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions