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