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Audio Drama Awards 2025 – The Winners

For 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 28 March 2025 at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Broadcasting House, London.

Outstanding Contribution

WINNER: Central Intelligence

Outstanding Contribution

WINNER: Bill Dare

Best Original Single Drama

WINNER: The Invitation by Katherine Chandler, producer John Norton, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Wales & West

COMMENDATION: Nearly Light by Kit Withington, producer Jelena Budimir, Naked Productions

Best Original Series or Serial

WINNER: Life Lines by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Audio London

Best Adaptation

WINNER: Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns, adapted by Gary McNair, producer Kirsty Williams, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Scotland

COMMENDATION: Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, producers Mary Peate and Jessica Dromgoole, Hooley Productions

Best Actor

WINNER: Sean Bean, Antigone, director Pauline Harris, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Audio London

Best Actress

WINNER: Cecilia Appiah, Oleanna, director Gary Brown, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Audio Salford

COMMENDATION: Michelle Fairley, Hello, I Appear to Have Killed My Husband, director Kirsty Williams, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Scotland

COMMENDATION: Kate O’Flynn, Spores, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica

Best Comedy Performance

WINNER: Rosie Cavaliero, The Train at Platform 4, producer James Robinson, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Audio

The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance

WINNER: Mae Munuo, Tribe of Two, director Jesse Fox, Afonica

Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama

WINNER: Rum Punch by Travis Jay, producer Daisy Knight, Avalon

Best Stand Up or Sketch Comedy

WINNER: Janey Godley: the C Bomb Series 2 by Janey Godley with Ashley Storrie, producer Julia Sutherland, Dabster Productions

COMMENDATION: Munya Chawawa’s Election Doom Scroll by Munya Chawawa, Matthew Crosby, James Farmer and Joe McArdle, producers Jo Maney and Ben Wicks, Expectation TV

Best Use of Sound

WINNER: Restless Dreams, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producers Eloise Whitmore and Polly Thomas, Naked Productions

Best Podcast Audio Drama

WINNER: The Skies Are Watching written and produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto, Goldhawk Productions

COMMENDATION: Central Intelligence by Greg Haddrick, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions

Best European Drama

WINNER: The Fall of Lapinville by Benjamin Abitan, Laura Fredducci & Wladimir Anselme, produced by Virginie Lacoste, Sahar Pirouz & Jacques Falgous for ARTE Studio / ARTE Radio, France

IMISON AWARD 2025

WINNER: Tether by Isley Lynn, producer Fay Lomas, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Wales and West

TINNISWOOD AWARD 2025

WINNER: Man Friday by Edson Burton, producer Mary Ward-Lowery, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Wales and West