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19.09.03
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Audiobooks wins nineteen SWPA awards
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Audiobooks celebrated another successful year at last night's Spoken
Word Awards ceremony hosted by Clive Anderson, picking up 19 awards
in total - including 8 Gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze as well as Performer
of the Year for Michael Palin's reading of Sahara.
Gold awards:
- Publishing
Initiative: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audiobooks Safeway Car Wash Promotion
- Drama:
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
- Drama:
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- Non-Fiction:
Sahara by Michael Palin, read by Michael Palin (unabridged)
- Comedy/Humour:
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary Special
- Unabridged
Modern Fiction: Spies by Michael Frayn, read by Martin Jarvis
- Biography:
A Moment Toward the End of the Play by Timothy West, read by Timothy
West
- Radio
Times Readers' Choice: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary
Special
Silver
awards:
-
Unabridged Classic Fiction: The Graduate by Charles Webb, read
by William Hope
- Children's
Age 6 & Over: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (full-cast
dramatisation)
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Unabridged Modern Fiction: Atonement by Ian McEwan, read by Carole
Boyd
-
Radio Times Readers' Choice: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
(full-cast dramatisation)
Bronze
awards:
-
Abridgement: A History of Britain Vol.3 by Simon Schama, read
by Timothy West (abridged by Sarah Kilgarriff)
- Unabridged
Classic Fiction: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, read by
Stephen Thorne
-
Crime &Thriller: A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L Sayers
and Jill Paton Walsh
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Children's Age 6 & Over: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer, read
by Philip Franks
-
Poetry: The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems, various readers
-
Biography: The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff, read by Sam
Kelly
In
addition, the Radio Times award for Best Male Performer of the year
for non-fiction was awarded to Michael Palin for his reading of
Sahara for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audiobooks.
A further Radio Times initiative was that, for the first time ever,
readers had an opportunity to vote for their favourite from a shortlist
of audiobooks - and the winner was ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Collection's I'm Sorry
I Haven't a Clue Anniversary Special. The team of Barry Cryer, Tim
Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Colin Sell were in attendance to
take the award.
Jan
Paterson, Publishing Director of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audiobooks, said:
"I was very proud of our publishing last night, as our titles
came up again and again for awards. I am especially pleased that
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue won two awards for its 30th anniversary
special release, and that Doctor Who - currently celebrating its
40th anniversary - should win with a new, original audio drama Death
Comes to Time. It was also terrific to see that, of the four Publishing
Initiative nominations, three were for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audiobooks marketing
initiatives; congratulations to Steve Crickmer on winning the award
for his Safeway Car Wash Promotion. Overall, the fact that we won
so many awards - nineteen in total - is a tribute to the creativity
and imagination both of our 'talent' and of our team at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audiobooks."
The awards are given by the Spoken Word Publisher's Association
and judged by a panel of independent experts including journalists,
producers, writers and retailers.
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