The 2026 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 1 March 2026 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC 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.

• The Final Touch by Roy Williams, producer Celia de Wolff, Pier Productions
• One Hundred and Fifty Days by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland
• Sleaze by Joe von Malachowski & Will Close, producer Anne Isger, BBC Studios Audio

• Gatsby in Harlem adapted by Roy Williams from F.Scott Fitzgerald, producer Nathan Freeman, Tom Billington and Celia De Wolff, Granny Eats Wolf Granny Eats Wolf
• Kramer versus Kramer by Avery Korman, adapted by Sarah Wooley, producers Gaynor Macfarlane and Carl Prekopp, BBC Audio Scotland
• Saint Joan of the Anthropocene adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths from George Bernard Shaw, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Studios Audio

• Aldrich Kemp and the Rose of Pamir, producer Sarah Tombling, Sweet Talk Productions
• Life and Time by James Fritz, producer Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio
• Mothercover by Fflur Dafydd, producer Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Wales & West

• Gabrielle Creevy, Astronomers, director John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West
• Lydia Leonard, Gershwin and Miss Swift, director Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio
• Jodie McNee, Secrets and Lies: Mona Best and the Beatles, director Carl Prekopp, Essential Productions

• Ncuti Gatwa, Gatsby in Harlem, director Celia de Wolff, Granny Eats Wolf
• Derek Jacobi, When Maggie Met Larry, director Richard Clifford, Catherine Bailey Productions
• Malachi Kirby, The Final Touch, director Celia de Wolff, Pier Productions

• Buzz: the Man and the Moon by Stephen Kronish, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions & Thoroughbred Studios for iHeart
• Discretion by Chris Brandon and Davy Banks, producers Claire Broughton and John Wakefield, Hat Trick Productions
• Up in Smoke written & produced by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey-Jones, Penny4

• Chris Cantrill, Icklewick FM, producers Benjamin Sutton and Laura Shaw, Daddy’s SuperYacht Productions
• Jon Culshaw, Churchill’s Bust, producer Richard Clemmow, Perfectly Normal
• Michael Spicer, Michael Spicer: No Room, producer Matt Tiller, Tillervision

• Levi Brown, Brat Farrar, director Gemma Jenkins, BBC Studios Audio
• Connor Finch, Life and Time, director Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio
• Sofia Oxenham, The English Are Coming, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica

• Crybabies Presents… Yours, Fatally by Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones, producer Benjamin Sutton, Boffola Pictures
• Icklewick FM by Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill, producer Benjamin Sutton, Daddy’s Superyacht Productions
• Lyra by Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio

• It’s a Fair Cop by Alfie Moore, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
• Meet David Sedaris by David Sedaris, producer Steve Doherty, Giddy Goat Productions
• Tough Crowd by Kiri Pritchard-McLean, producer Tashi Radha, executive producer Suzy Grant, Listen

• The Bolt, sound by Catherine Robinson, producer John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West
• The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, sound by Adam Woodhams, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
• Secrets and Lies: Mona Best and the Beatles, sound by Lucinda Mason Brown, David Chilton and Alisdair McGregor, producers Lucinda Mason Brown and Stewart Richards, Essential Productions

• Macbeth by Mathilda von Essen and Axel Wingqvist after William Shakespeare, producers Marie Wennersten and Louise Jacobson, SR Sweden
• Not Born For a War by Anatolii Neiolov, producer Iryna Korniienko, Radio Kultura, Suspilne, Ukraine
• The Pack by Monica Helfer, adapted and directed by Elisabeth Weilenmann, producer Wolfram Höll, ORF Austria

• Do Not Disturb: ‘Good Sex in Progress’ by Sherise Blackman, producer Victoria Lloyd, Platform Media, Audible
• A Tale of Two Trumpets by Sylvia-Anne Parker, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland, BBC Radio 4
• When Maggie Met Larry by Tim Walker, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions, BBC Radio 4

The Tinniswood Award 2026 finalists will be announced in the first week of February.