BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019 Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019 has been revealed, with Tommies, A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London, Anansi Boys, Bridget Christie’s Utopia and Mae Martin among the programmes and artists in contention. You can find out which shows make the finals on Tuesday 8th January 2019 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House London on the evening of Sunday 3rd February 2019, hosted by Tracy-Ann Oberman.

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.

Best Original Single Drama

• 19 Weeks by Emily Steel, producer Helen Perry
• All of the Beauty in the World by Eve Steel, producer Gary Brown
• The Chosen One by Avi Garvi, producers Nadir Khan and John Dryden
• County Lines by Amelia Bullmore, producer Mary Peate
• Holbein’s Skull by Martyn Wade, producer Tracy Neale
• The Trials of CB King by David Morley, producer Marc Beeby

Best Original Series or Serial

• Stone by Martin Jameson, Richard Monks, Cath Staincliffe, Alex Ganley, Vivienne Harvey, producers Nadia Molinari and Gary Brown
• Subterranean Homesick Blues by A L Kennedy, producer Sally Avens
• Tommies by Avin Shah, producers David Hunter, Jonquil Panting and Jonathan Ruffle
• The Truth about Hawaii by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams
• The Unforgiven by Barbara Machin, producer Allegra McIlroy
• The Wilsons Save the World by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan, producer Julia McKenzie

Best Adaptation

• The Art of Foot-binding by Danielle McLauglin, producer Kevin Brew
• Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, adapted by Claudine Toutoungi, producer Gemma Jenkins
• Das Kapital by Karl Marx, adapted by Sarah Woods, producer James Robinson
• Love Henry James: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths, producer Nadia Molinari
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, adapted by Lucy Catherine, producer Sasha Yevtushenko
• A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London by Charles Dickens, adapted by Ayeesha Menon, producer Gill Parry

Best Actor

• Liam Brennan, Five Days Which Changed Everything
• Jasper Britton, A Month of Maureen – Three Journeys
• Derek Jacobi, The War Master 1.1 Beneath the Viscoid
• George McKay, The Glass Menagerie
• David Tennant, Wild Honey
• David Threlfall, Spike and the Elfin Oak

Best Actress

• Sudha Bhuchar, My Son the Doctor
• Jessie Buckley, The Effect
• Mandeep Dhillon, Freezing to Death (And How to Avoid It)
• Jo Martin, The Interrogation
• Eve Myles, 19 Weeks
• Sydney Wade, D for Dexter

Best Director

• Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateus Dymek, The King of the Flat White As Narrated by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
• Steve Bond and Judith Kampfner, Shadowbahn
• Abigail le Fleming, The Effect
• Peter Kavanagh, The Wild Duck
• Shan Ng, Tiger Girls

Best Debut Performance

• Salvatore D’Aquilla, Operation Crucible
• Karlo Diaz, The Beast
• Daisy Head, Love Henry James: the Golden Bowl
• Yolanda Mercy, Quarter Life Crisis
• Rebekah Murrell, The Gift
• Georgia Scholes, Billy Homeless Dies at the End

Best Use of Sound

• Anansi Boys, sound by Wilfredo Acosta, producers Allegra McIlroy and Dirk Maggs
• The Beast, sound by Steve Bond, producers Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond
• Love Henry James: the Turn of the Screw, sound by Steve Brooke and John Benton, producer Nadia Molinari
• The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, sound by Alisdair MacGregor, producer Andrew Marshall
• Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter’s The White Hotel, sound by Wilfredo Acosta, producers Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui
• A Taxi Stops, sound by Rikke Houd and Mike Woolley, producer Rikke Houd

Best Scripted Comedy (Longform)

• Ability by Lee Ridley and Katherine Jakeways, producer Jane Berthoud
• Bridget Christie’s Utopia by Bridget Christie, producers Simon Nicholls and Alison Vernon-Smith
• Mae Martin’s Guide to 21st Century Addiction by Mae Martin, producer Alexandra Smith
• Plum House by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna, producers Sarah Cartwright and Paul Schlesinger
• Robert Newman’s Total Eclipse of Descartes by Rob Newman, producer John Whitehall
• Tim Key’s Late-Night Poetry Programme by Tim Key, producer James Robinson

Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch Show)

• Agendum by Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris, producer David Tyler
• Dead Ringers by Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden, Tom Coles, Sarah Campbell, James Bugg, Max Davis, Sarah Gibbs, Alex Hardy, Laura Major and Lewis Cook, producer Bill Dare
• John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore, producer Ed Morrish
• Lucy Porter in the Family Way by Lucy Porter, producer Gordon Kennedy
• Newsjack by the great British public, producers Adnan Ahmed and Suzy Grant
• Sketchtopia by Kai Samra, Ling Low, Bilal Zafar, Lizzie Bates, Anna Emerson, Elizabeth Caproni, Sarah Gibbs, Luke Manning and Paul G Raymond, producer Gus Beattie
• Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones by Milton Jones, James Cary and Dan Evans, producer David Tyler

Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama

• ATA Girl by Gemma Page, Victoria Saxton, Helen Goldwyn and Jane Slavin, producer Helen Goldwyn, Big Finish Productions
• Blind Terror – The Gods of Frost by Guy Adams, producer Scott Handcock, Big Finish Productions
• Blood on Satan’s Claw by Robert Wynne-Simmons, adapted by Mark Morris, producer Simon Barnard, Bafflegab Productions
• Double Bubble by Carl Cattermole, producer Katie Bilboa, Prison Radio Association
• Red Moon written and produced by Robert Valentine, The Wireless Theatre Company
• Tracks: Strata by Matthew Broughton, producer James Robinson, BBC

Best European Drama

• 100 Songs by Roland Schimmelpfennig, producer Manfred Hess, SWR/ARD Germany
• The Confession by Fyodor Dostoevsky, adapted by Doina Papp, producer Ilinca Stihi, Radio Romania
• The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks, adapted by Lenka Veverková, producer Eva Vovesná, Czech Radio
• The Day It Rained 449 Franz Klammers by Mathias Cavelty, producer Reto Ott, SRF Swiss Radio and Television
• July 22nd: How Could It Happen? by Mathias Calmeyer, producer Øystein Kjennerud, NRK Norway
• Munch and Munch – Diptych by Jasna Mesarić, producer Katja Šimunić, HRT Croatian Radio
• Wrapped by Tracy Martin, producer Kevin Reynolds, RTÉ Ireland