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BBC successes at the Celtic Media Awards

Jen Macro

Digital Content Producer, About the BBC

The Celtic Media Festival is an annual celebration of broadcasting and film from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany. As part of the festival, the Celtic Media Awards ceremony was held at Villa Marina in Douglas on the Isle Of Mann from the 3-5 May. The BBC picked up accolades in 15 of the 23 catagories:

Arts

The Greatest Poem of World War One: David Jones's In Parenthesis - BBC Wales & BBC Four

Factual Entertainment 

Wil, Aeron a'r Inca/Wil, Aeron and The Inca - S4C

Comedy 

Still Game - BBC Scotland

Factual Series

Scotland’s Game - BBC Scotland

Kieran Hegarty Award for Innovation

Voices 16 - BBC Northern Ireland

Drama series

Line of Duty - BBC

Radio Documentary

Aberfan - BBC Radio Cymru

Radio Magazine Show

Rhaglen Aled Hughes/Aled Hughes Programme - BBC Radio Cymru

Radio Music Programme (Live)

Blas Ceoil - BBC Radio Ulster

Lynette Fay presenter of Blas Ceoil with her award

Radio Sports

Spòrs na Seachdain/Weekly Sport - BBC Radio nan Gaidheal

Radio Station of the Year

BBC Radio Cymru

Single Documentary

Dunblane – Our Story - BBC One

Sports Documentary

Crash and Burn - BBC NI and RTE

Spirit of the Festival & History

Eoin Mac Néill: Fear Dearmadta 1916/Eoin MacNeill: The Forgotten Man of 1916 - BBC Two NI and TG4

For the full list of winners visit the Celtic Media Festival website.