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June Spencer (Peggy Archer) shines at the 2014 BBC Audio Drama Awards
Alison Hindell
Alison Hindell, head of BBC Audio Drama pays tribute to June Spencer (Peggy Archer) and the many actors, writers and producers who won at the 2014 Audio Drama Awards.
BBC Food and Farming Awards - An Update
Sheila Dillon
Presenter, The Food Programme, Radio 4
We've big news about the next BBC Food & Farming Awards. Read this blog post for details.
The BBC International Short Story Award
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
With just a month to go until entries close for this year's BBC International Short Story Award, it's really exciting to see that the Costa Awards too are going to celebrate and reward short story writers next year. It's great news for short story writers and their audiences, and yet more tangi...
Radio 4 at the Sony Awards
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
It was the Sony Radio Academy Awards last night ("the radio industry's equivalent of the Oscars"). Here's where you can hear this year's gold winners from Radio 4 which were cunningly rescheduled into some of the station's repeat slots when the nominees were announced. The winner of the best ...
Taking care of those who might fall through the gaps
Sally Flatman
You always feel nervous at 7.55am when you are waiting for the Vicar's Radio 4 Christmas Appeal to go out on air - will the phones really start ringing any second. But I need not have worried, our Radio 4 listeners don't let us down - they were ringing to give to this the 84th annual appeal all ...
Radio 4 in Cheltenham and the Nick Clarke Award
Gwyneth Williams
Last week R4 was dominated by Chilean miners and Cheltenham chatterers. The most original take on the miners' story must go to Broadcasting House on Sunday which read from Edgar Allan Poe's tale about being buried alive. Further unintentional echoes reached me, in an item that moved me to tears,...
Six Sony Golds for Radio 4
Mark Damazer
We had a good night at the Sonys - six Golds, four Silvers and five Bronzes (here's the full list). Winning a Sony Gold can often be a career highlight and (no names) there were some awards last night, not just Radio 4 ones, that left a very big glow. The margins on these occasions are rather ...
Shrt stry awrd - anncmnt Mnday
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Editor's note. Update: of course, the award has now been announced. Kate Clanchy is the winner. The Telegraph covered the announcement, as did The Guardian. Congratulations to Kate Clanchy! - SB Not long now until our final meeting in a discreet London venue, to pick this year's winner. Which i...
The BBC National Short Story Award
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Hurrah! At last. After all the waiting, and the reading, and the deliberating we have at last reached the moment when we can reveal this year's short-list of five contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award (BBC NSSA). These five have survived the turbulent and exacting examination of firs...
Hooray for Henry!
Mark Damazer
Lenny Henry has won the 'Outstanding Newcomer' award at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards - one of the best known drama awards in the U.K. He won it for playing Othello - his first Shakespearean role. Indeed his first drama role. It is great news for him - but also for us. I saw him do...
