The List of 2017 Winners
Big congratulations to this year's winners!
Best Single Drama
The Sky is Wider
By Linda Marshall Griffiths
Producer: Nadia Molinari
BBC North
Radio 4
Commendation
Jump Blue
By Hannah Silva
Producers: Nicolas Jackson & Steve Bond
Afonica
Radio 3
Best Series or Serial
Life Lines
By Al Smith
Producer: Sally Avens
BBC Radio Drama London
Radio 4
Best Adaptation
Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money Episode 9
Adaptors: Oliver Emanuel, Martin Jameson, Lavinia Murray and Dan Rebellato
Producers: Gary Brown, Pauline Harris, Nadia Molinari, Polly Thomas, Kirsty Williams
BBC North, BBC Scotland & Sparklab Productions
Radio 4
Best Actor
Danny Sapani
A Raisin in the Sun
Director: Pauline Harris
BBC North
Radio 3
Best Actress
Christine Bottomley
The Sky is Wider
Director: Nadia Molinari
BBC North
Radio 4
Best Supporting Actor or Actress
Valene Kane
The Stroma Sessions
Producers: Nicolas Jackson & Steve Bond
Afonica
Radio 3
Best Debut Performance
Lee Rufford
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Director: Carl Prekopp
Goldhawk Essential
Radio 4
Best Use of Sound
Tracks (Ep 1)
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Producers: James Robinson, Helen Perry and Abigail le Fleming
BBC Cymru Wales
Radio 4
Best Scripted Comedy Drama
Secret Kebabs
by Christine Entwisle
Producer Kirsty Williams
BBC Scotland
Radio 4
Commendation
The Strange Vanishing of Julian Quark
by Tom Wainwright
Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko
BBC Radio Drama London
Radio 4
Best Scripted Comedy with a Live Audience
Robert Newman’s Entirely Accurate Encyclopedia of Evolution
by Rob Newman
Producer: Jonathan Harvey
Hat Trick
Radio 4
Best Online Only Audio Drama
Dr Who – Absent Friends
Big Finish Productions
Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script by a New Writer
Society of Authors and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation
Comment is Free
James Fritz
Producer: Rebecca Ripley, BBC Bristol
Radio 4
Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script
Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
in association with the ALCS
Comment is Free
James Fritz
Producer: Rebecca Ripley, BBC Bristol
Radio 4
Outstanding Contribution
The Archers
Special Award for Services to Radio Drama
Bill Nighy
