Sara Pascoe Presents... The Anti-Awards Awards

Welcome the first (and possibly last) Anti-Awards Awards. As award season goes into full swing, your host Sara Pascoe invites you to join her on the podium as she presents the only awards that dare to say that there might just be a darker side to the pursuit of the big prize.

Sara chats to fellow comedian Nish Kumar about how striving to win an award can tank your work - and they look back at the excruciating 2017 Oscars as it dawns to the La La Land team that they haven't actually won Best Picture.

Novelist Sarah Hall takes us inside the machinations of a judging committee, and John Lloyd shows us just a few of the hundreds of awards he's won, and shares how awards helped bring on premature midlife crisis.

She also hears from film historian Isobel Custodio on how the spectre of Harvey Weinstein haunts the modern awards campaign. Nobel Prize Winner Eric Wieschaus on how to stay sane when the world thinks you are a genius and author and tech philosopher Tom Chatfield on the delicate politics of turning prizes down - as well as giving them to those who really don't care one bit. Congratulations to Nobel Literature Laureate Mr Bob Dylan!

Finally Sara asks if there's something inherently embarrassing about an awards ceremony as Sam Fox reveals that the real culprit behind the shambolic 1995 Brit Awards ceremony which would easily win the award for being the most most embarrassing was in fact the...Bros Fan Club.

Presenter: Sara Pascoe
Producer: Jessica Treen