The Awards, sponsored by Audible, were held at a gala event on Wednesday 20th November at the BFI on London’s South Bank. Josh Smith (host of the Reign Podcast and author of Great Chat), and Yasmin Evans (radio and TV broadcaster) were this year’s hosts.
The APAs, organised by AudioUK (the trade body providing business support and growth to professionals making podcasts, radio and audiobooks), celebrate outstanding achievement in audio production across a huge range of audio content including; podcasts, audiobooks, sound design, radio, presenting and more.
This year’s winners include Charlie Murrell (Sony Music Entertainment), who won gold for Best Entertainment Producer and repeat winners Zak and Jules who won in the Best Ensemble Cast category for their podcast Life After Prison. The highly competitive Best Factual/Documentary Producer award went to Jude Shapiro (Peanut and Crumb) for her work on the podcast How Much Can You Say? about gang warfare in North London.
The Sustainability and Climate Award went to Peanut and Crumb for their podcast, Get Birding, with a mission to increase nature accessibility. Audio newcomer Daisy, was awarded Best New Voice who told her powerful story in RAW for Audible podcast The Second Victim: Daisy’s Story and Taqwa Sadiq (Freelance and BBC) took home the gold for Best New Producer.
Meera Kumar was crowned Producer of the Year, Almost Tangible was named Production Company of the Year, and Resonance won Publisher or Network of the Year for the third year in a row. The AudioUK Award was presented to Nicole Logan for her outstanding work and contribution to the UK audio industry.
Chloe Straw, Managing Director of AudioUK, said:
“The audio industry stands at a pivotal moment in its history, with the diversification of content, and resulting opportunity, at an all time high. Audio now means numerous things: podcasts, radio, audiobooks, visualised, audio only, self-published, commissioned, subscriptions, live shows, always on, narrative, branded, drama, gaming. The list goes on…
Judging so many different types of content alongside each other can be a tricky task, and I’d like to say thank you to this year’s judges for all of the expertise that they showed, and time that they spent, in judging these awards.
Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners at AudioUK’s 2024 Audio Production Awards. Our aim is to run an awards that celebrate the people who work across all areas of the industry. The talent we have continues to delight and astound, and I can’t wait to see what all of our winners do in the future.
Thank you to our headline sponsor Audible, who work with us every year to put the awards on, to Amazon Music and Wondery for partnering with us on the Pay What You Can Scheme, and to the Entry Level Audio Network, who partnered with us on the pre-show mixer, for people who are new to the industry or who were coming alone.
Thank you to the team behind the awards – all of the excellent judges; Chair of Judges Megan Bradshaw; EDI consultant Yassine Senghor; Lead Producer Katie Banham and Producer Naomi Oiku – the amount of work that goes into these awards to enable the celebration of the industry is huge, and should not be underestimated.
Thank you to all of our category sponsors, BBC Sounds, Everybody Media, Great Big Story, Morley Radio, Sue Terry Voices and The Podcast Show and our drinks reception sponsor BetterHelp. And thank you to our media partners: Biscuit Jim, Cheerful Earful, Community Media Association, Content Is Queen, Creative Mentor Network, Earworm, Falling Tree Productions, North Media Talent, Phonic Content, Pineapple Audio Production, Pod Bible, PodcastingToday, Podcast Rex, podfollow, Podium.me, Podnews, Podmasters, Podomedy, Pod School, Podspike, RadioToday, ReelWorld, Rusty Quill, Sounds Profitable, Soundtruism, Student Radio Association, Sport Social Podcast Network, The Podcast Host, The Radio Academy, Wisebuddah and WIZZFX. Community Media Association, Content Is Queen, Creative Mentor Network, Disruptive Talent Group, Earworm, North Media Talent, Pineapple Audio Production, Pod Bible, Podfollow, Podium.me, Podnews, Podomedy, PodPod, Pospike, RadioToday, Reel2Media, SRA, Sport Social Podcast Network, The Radio Academy and WIZZFX. Partnerships are so important in the growth of the audio industry, and it has been a pleasure working with you all.”
Audio Production Awards Winners 2024
Best Audiobook Producer sponsored by Sue Terry Voices
GOLD – Kate MacDonald – Penguin Random House
SILVER – Sophie Ahmed – Audio Always
BRONZE – Alfie Thompson – Penguin Random House
Nominees
Chris Thompson – Penguin Random House
Lily Ridett – Freelance for Penguin Random House
Rosemary O’Dowd – Penguin Random House
Best Arts and Culture Producer
GOLD – Arthur Hagues – Prison Radio Association
SILVER – Leonie Thomas – Overcoat Media
BRONZE – Sharuna Sagar – BBC
Nominees
Geoff Bird – Freelance
Silas Gray – Eclectivity
Lou Mensah – Shade Media
Best Sonic Branding Producer
GOLD – Em Roberts – Kerrang! Radio and Planet Rock Station Sound
SILVER – Adam Venton – Little Monster Media
BRONZE – Sam Parker – WIZZFX
Nominees
Gordon Lundy – Absolute Radio
James Stodd – Greatest Hits Radio
Matt Barnard – Bauer Media Group
Best Entertainment Producer
GOLD – Charlie Murrell – Sony Music Entertainment
SILVER – Katie Boden – TBI Media
BRONZE – Helena Webb – BBC Radio 1/BBC Audio
Nominees
Faye Lyons-White – Loftus Media
David Manero – Listen
Josephine McDermott – BBC
Best Comedy Producer
GOLD – Jon Holmes – unusual
SILVER – Sasha Bobak – BBC Studios Audio
BRONZE – Bertie Moores – Audio Always
Nominees
Ed Morrish – Lead Mojo Productions
Lyndsay Fenner – Mighty Bunny
Matt Tiller – Tillervision
Best Lifestyle and Society Producer sponsored by Everybody Media
GOLD – Catherine Carr – Pocket Productions/Whistledown
SILVER – Matt Nielson – Chalk and Blade
BRONZE – Beth Madden – Prison Radio Association
Nominees
Anne McNaught – Boffin Media
Lina Prestwood – Scenery Studios and Social Broadcasts
Sam Taylor – Prison Radio Association
Best Drama & Fiction Producer
GOLD – Nathan Freeman – Audible
SILVER – Terry Mynott – Moonkarta
BRONZE – Charlotte Melén – Almost Tangible
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Samuel Robinson – Freelance
Nominees
Boz Temple-Morris – Holy Mountain
Nicolas Jackson – Afonica
Best Ensemble Cast
GOLD – Zak and Jules – Life After Prison
SILVER – The Ensemble Cast of Green Wing: Resuscitated
BRONZE – Carys Afoko and Gary Younge – Over the Top, Under the Radar
Nominees
Nish Kumar and Coco Khan – Pod Save the UK
Sayeeda Warsi and David Baddiel – A Muslim & A Jew Go There
William Hanson and Jordan North – Help I Sexted My Boss
Best Factual/Documentary Producer sponsored by Great Big Story
GOLD – Jude Shapiro – Peanut & Crumb
SILVER – Anna Sinfield – Novel
BRONZE – Emma Barnaby – Freelance/Raw TV
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Talia Augustidis – Falling Tree Productions
Nominees
Meera Kumar – Freelance
Ross Sutherland – Falling Tree Productions
Best Music Producer
GOLD – James Taylor – Overcoat Media
SILVER – Silvia Malnati – Reduced Listening
BRONZE – Rob Littlejohn – Independent
Nominees
Matt Tasker – BBC Audio
Ollie Brookes – Prison Radio Association
Shreni Yajnik – Listen
Little Ears Producer
GOLD – Eloise Stevens – Freelance
SILVER – Lucy Wroe – Small Wardour
BRONZE – Jake Harris – Yoto
Nominees
Alice Homewood – Mags Creative
Becky Green – Audio Always
Lance Dann – Rezilience
Best Narrator
GOLD – Jassa Ahluwalia – Bonnier Books UK
SILVER – Hannah Lavery – Almost Tangible and National Theatre of Scotland
BRONZE – Deborah Ayorinde – Unedited
Nominees
Joe Jameson – Various
Rebecca LaChance – Almost Tangible
Russ Bain – W.F. Howes
Best News and Current Affairs Producer
GOLD – Sam Chantarasak – The Times and The Sunday Times
SILVER – Courtney Yusuf – The Guardian
BRONZE – Will Roe – The Times and The Sunday Times
Nominees
Edward Drummond – The Times and The Sunday Times
James Shield – Freelance/The Times and The Sunday Times
Tim Johns – BBC Radio 2
Best Present/erHost
GOLD – Jake Harris – Yoto
SILVER – Craig Charles – Audio Always
BRONZE – Josie Long – Falling Tree Productions
Nominees
Dan Snow – History Hit
Jon Holmes – Freelance
Justin Dealey – BBC Three Counties Radio
Best New Producer sponsored by Amazon Music and Wondery
GOLD – Taqwa Sadiq – Freelance and BBC
SILVER – Nadia Mehdi – Freelance
BRONZE – Cat Gough – Reduced Listening
Nominees
Jasmine Hill – Listen
Masha Chadry – Audio Always
Verity de Cala – Transmission Roundhouse
GOLD – Martin Austwick – Freelance
SILVER – Amber Devereux – Tin Can Audio
BRONZE – Tony Churnside – Freelance
Nominees
David Chilton – Almost Tangible
Olga Reed – Audible
Tess Davidson – Freelance
Best New Voice sponsored by BBC Sounds
GOLD – Daisy – RAW for Audible
SILVER – Sophiena – Audio Always
BRONZE – Anouska Lewis – BBC Sounds Audio Lab & Mags Creative
Nominees
Jake Shears – Queer the Music
Lucinda Rouse – Third Sector & Rethink Audio
Petra Barran – Scenery Studios and Social Broadcasts
Best Sports Producer
GOLD – Lochlainn Harte – Freelance
SILVER – Joe Aldridge – IMG
BRONZE – Jack Winstanley – IMG
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Finn Ranson – Stak
Nominees
Ilona Toller – Whistledown Productions
Justin Dealey – BBC Three Counties Radio
AudioUK Award
Nicole Logan
Grassroots Production Award sponsored by Morley Radio
GOLD – University of Manchester/Imperial College London – Let’s Talk About Cough
SILVER – Rosa Schling and Hannah Kemp-Welch – Childcare Voices
BRONZE – Carousel Radio
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Lou Mensah – Shade Media
Nominees
Prison Radio Association – Life After Prison
Prison Radio Association – Outside In
The Sustainability and Climate Award
GOLD – Peanut & Crumb – Get Birding
SILVER – Eleanor McDowall – Lights Out: Dust
BRONZE – Audio Always
Nominees
Ben Weaver-Hincks and Tom Previte – Grounded: A Climate Startup Journey
James Miller and Bella Lack – Here’s The Plan
Robin Markwell and Tracey Williams – Lego Overboard
Producer of the Year sponsored by The Podcast Show
GOLD – Meera Kumar – Freelance
SILVER – Jon Holmes – unusual
BRONZE – Talia Augustidis – Falling Tree Productions
Nominees
Charlotte Melén – Almost Tangible
Ed Morrish – Lead Mojo Productions
Leonie Thomas – Overcoat Media/Whistledown Productions
Publisher or Network of the Year
GOLD – Resonance
SILVER – Stak
BRONZE – Rusty Quill
Nominees
BBC Asian Network
Black Library
Sky News
Production Company of the Year sponsored by Audible
GOLD – Almost Tangible
SILVER – Overcoat Media
BRONZE – Unedited
Nominees
Blanchard House
Novel
Whistledown Productions