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The Best Online/Non-Broadcast Audio Award has been won by John Dorney’s Doctor Who: Absent Friends, part of the third Doom Coalition box set starring Paul McGann as the Doctor.

The award was chosen from three stories with a Doctor Who connection.

It was up against Paul Magrs’ The King of Cats – the first story in Bafflegab’s Baker’s End saga featuring fourth Doctor Tom Baker as a version of himself and Guy Adams’ Torchwood tale, More than This, which features Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper.

The winners were announced in a ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre on 29 January 2017, hosted by Sir Lenny Henry.

The awards – presented by the BBC in partnership with the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – recognise the cultural significance, range and originality of audio drama, on air as well as online, and credit the creativity of the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work within the field.

Each category is judged by a team of industry experts including actress Alison Steadman, journalist Baz Bamigboye, and producer Piers Plowright.