The shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2021 has now been revealed, with five genre productions in the mix (as well as an SFB contributor!)

The BBC Audio Drama Awards celebrate the range, originality and cut-through quality of audio drama on air and online and give recognition to the creativity of actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in this genre.

The finalists will be announced on Tuesday 9 February 2021, and the winners on Sunday 21 March 2021. The winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards (judged and administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) will also be announced on this date.

The genre nominations are:

Best Original Series or Serial

  • 24 Kildare Rd by Katie Hims, producer Mary Peate, BBC Radio Drama London
  • Body Horror by Lucy Catherine, producer Toby Swift, BBC Radio Drama London
  • Broken English by Shelagh Stephenson, producer Eoin O’Callaghan, Big Fish Productions
  • D for Dexter by Amanda Whittington, producer Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Bristol
  • Prostrate by Martin Jameson, producer Liz Anstee, CPL Productions
  • Someone Dangerous by Andy Mulligan, producers Emma Hearn and John Scott Dryden, Goldhawk Productions

Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama

  • Children of the Stones by AK Benedict and Guy Adams, producer Simon Barnard, Bafflegab Productions
  • Fake Heiress by Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Radio Drama London
  • Murmurs by Janina Matthewson, Tom Crowley, Beth Crane, Chris and Jen Sugden, producers John Norton and James Robinson, BBC Cymru Wales
  • The Sink by Natasha Hodgson, producer Andy Goddard, BBC Studios
  • Tribulation by Adam Jahnke, producer Greg Cooler, ListenUp Audio
  • Unwell: a Midwestern Gothic Mystery, producers Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde, HartLife NFP

Best Use of Sound

  • Bar Answer, sound by Steve Bond, producers Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond, Afonica
  • Cane, sound by Nigel Lewis, producer John Norton, BBC Cymru Wales
  • The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, sound by Steve Bond, producers Joby Waldman and Steve Bond, Reduced Listening
  • Islands, sound by Chris Watson and Ruth Kennington, producer Kevin Brew, RTÉ Ireland
  • The Kubrick Test, sound by Alisdair McGregor, producer Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain
  • Over and Out (Murmurs Ep 1), sound by Catherine Robinson, producers John Norton and James Robinson, BBC Cymru Wales

The full list can be accessed here

 

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