BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 Winners

The winners of the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 were announced by actor and writer Lenny Henry at the ceremony in the Radio Theatre, BBC Broadcasting House.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Stanley Baxter

Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama

Neil Gaiman

Best Original Audio Drama (Single play)

• WINNER: Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel

• Everyday Time Machines

• Men Who Sleep in Cars

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

• WINNER: Ambiguous Loss

• Holding On To You

• The Seventh Test

Best Audio Drama (Adaptation)

• WINNER: Come to Grief

• Porcelain

• The Seventh Test

Best Actor in an Audio Drama

• WINNER: Ian McKellen in Eugenie Grandet

• Andrew Scott in Slipping

• Julian Rhind-Tutt in The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

Best Actress in an Audio Drama

• WINNER: Aisling Loftus in Educator

• Charlotte Riley in Slipping

• Ellie Kendrick in How to Say Goodbye Properly

Best Supporting Actor or Actress in an Audio Drama

• WINNER: Michelle Terry in Educator

• Sian Phillips in Hide the Moon

• Toby Jones in Pride and Prejudice

Best Debut Performance

• WINNER: Jade Matthew in A Kidnapping

• Alex Jordan in Frankenstein – The Modern Prometheus

• Sam Hattersley in Magpie

Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama

• WINNER: The Boy at the Back

• The Exorcist

• The Illustrated Man

Best Scripted Comedy Drama

• WINNER: Lunch

• Believe It: Victor

• I’m a Believer

Best Scripted Comedy (Studio Audience)

• WINNER: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme

• The Brig Society

• Trodd En Bratt Say ‘Well Done You’

Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama

• WINNER: Hood – The Scribe of Sherwood

• The Child

• Survivors

The BBC is delighted once again to be joining with the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain for this year’s Imison and Tinniswood Awards, both of which will also be presented at the ceremony on 1 Feb.

The shortlist for the Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script by a new writer is:

• WINNER: How to Say Goodbye Properly by E.V. Crowe

• Goodbye by Morwenna Banks

• The Man in the Lift by Tom Connolly

• Paris, Nana and Me by Caroline Horton

The shortlist for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award for Best Radio Drama Script is:

• WINNER: Goodbye by Morwenna Banks

• The Good Listener by Fin Kennedy

• Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts