Audio Drama Awards 2026 – The Winners

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 were announced on Sunday 1 March 2026 at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

WINNER: Faith, Hope and Glory, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: The Archers at 75, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: One Hundred and Fifty Days by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Kramer versus Kramer by Avery Korman, adapted by Sarah Wooley, producers Gaynor Macfarlane and Carl Prekopp, BBC Audio Scotland, BBC Radio 4

COMMENDATION: Saint Joan of the Anthropocene adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths from George Bernard Shaw, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Studios Audio, BBC Radio 3

WINNER: Life and Time by James Fritz, producer Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Gabrielle Creevy, Astronomers, director John Norton, BBC Audio Wales & West, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Malachi Kirby, The Final Touch, director Celia de Wolff, Pier Productions, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Buzz: the Man and the Moon by Stephen Kronish, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions & Thoroughbred Studios for iHeart

COMMENDATION: Discretion by Chris Brandon and Davy Banks, producers Claire Broughton and John Wakefield, Hat Trick Productions, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds

WINNER: Chris Cantrill, Icklewick FM, producers Benjamin Sutton and Laura Shaw, Daddy’s SuperYacht Productions, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Connor Finch, Life and Time, director Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio, BBC Radio 4

COMMENDATION: Sofia Oxenham, The English Are Coming, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Lyra by Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Meet David Sedaris by David Sedaris, producer Steve Doherty, Giddy Goat Productions, BBC Radio 4

COMMENDATION: Tough Crowd by Kiri Pritchard-McLean, producer Tashi Radha, executive producer Suzy Grant, Listen, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, sound by Adam Woodhams, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: Not Born For a War by Anatolii Neiolov, producer Iryna Korniienko, Radio Kultura, Suspilne, Ukraine

COMMENDATION: The Pack by Monica Helfer, adapted and directed by Elisabeth Weilenmann, producer: HR/ORF/SRF

WINNER: A Tale of Two Trumpets by Sylvia-Anne Parker, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: One Hundred and Fifty Days by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Audio Scotland, BBC Radio 4

COMMENDATION: Life and Time by James Fritz, producer Tracey Neale, BBC Studios Audio, BBC Radio 4

WINNER: When Maggie Met Larry by Tim Walker, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions, BBC Radio 4

COMMENDATION: Chicken Burger N Chips by Corey Bovell, producer Bernard P Achampong, Unedited Productions, BBC Radio 4