Winners announced for The Radio Academy ARIAS 2024

The winners of 27 awards have been announced for The Radio Academy ARIAS 2024 at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Hosted by Alice Levine and Romesh Ranganathan, attendees this year included Greg James, Vick Hope, Marvin Humes, Trevor Nelson, Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, Jamie Laing, Nish Kumar, Rick Edwards, Ken Bruce, Nicole Appleton, Lauren Laverne and many more.

KISS FM’s Sam Darlaston, a former Radio Academy 30 Under 30, hosted backstage interviews with winners.

Annie Nightingale MBE was honoured with the Pioneer Award posthumously for her contribution to the broadcast industry and paving the way for talented women and non-binary people in the electronic music scene.

BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne and BBC Radio 1’s Martha were joined onstage with Annie’s daughter Lucy. Their speech was accompanied by clips from Annie’s documentary and photos of her throughout the years.

The radio industry also paid tribute to the late Steve Wright. This included an introduction from Alice and Romesh, followed by a video filled of tributes. Lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, Marti Pellow gave a special performance onstage of ‘Wichita Lineman’ – a regular track that Steve used to play on his BBC Radio 2 Sunday Love Songs show and a personal favourite of his.

Regional and local radio took home 11 Gold awards including Forth 1’s Boogie in the Morning for Best Music Breakfast Show; Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie for Best Local Show; BBC Radio Manchester for The John Myers Station of the Year Award and BBC Radio Newcastle won The Impact Award and Best Speech Breakfast Show.

Further wins across the evening included BBC Radio 2 Scott Mills for Best Music Entertainment Show, Absolute Radio’s Tim’s Listening Party for Best New Radio Show; Marianna Spring for Best Speech Presenter; Prison Radio Association’s Free Flow for Best Specialist Music Show; The Royal National Institute of Blind People for Community Station of the Year; Goldhawk Productions The Sisters for Best Drama.  BBC Asian Network won UK Station of the Year.

BBC 5 Live’s ‘John Robins reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery’ won the popular public-voted Radio Times Moment of the Year which gained over 20,700 votes this year.

Full List of Winners

BEST NEW PRESENTER

GOLD WINNER
Caroline Steel
BBC Science Radio Unit

SILVER
Rob Burrow
BBC Radio Leeds

BRONZE
Ali Ali
Prison Radio Association

BEST NEW RADIO SHOW
Supported by Carver PR

GOLD WINNER
Tim’s Listening Party
Absolute Radio

SILVER
Unexpected Elements 
BBC World Service

BRONZE
Takeover Tuesdays
Prison Radio Association

BEST NEW PODCAST

GOLD 
Seven: Rob Burrow
BBC Radio Leeds

SILVER
Near Death
BFBS

BRONZE
Springleaf
Mighty Bunny

BEST SPEECH PRESENTER

GOLD WINNER
Marianna Spring
BBC Radio 4

SILVER
Zak and Jules
Prison Radio Association

BRONZE
Jack Boswell
Flanuer Productions

BEST SPEECH BREAKFAST SHOW

GOLD WINNER
Matt Bailey at Breakfast
BBC Radio Newcastle

SILVER
talkSPORT Breakfast
talkSPORT

BRONZE
5 Live Breakfast
BBC Radio 5 Live

BEST NEWS COVERAGE
Supported by Radio News Hub

GOLD WINNER
Shiny Bob: The Devil’s Advocate
BBC Scotland News

SILVER
Israel-Hamas War Coverage
Times Radio

BRONZE
Pod Save The UK
Reduced Listening / Crooked Media

BEST SPORTS COVERAGE

GOLD WINNER
GameDay 
talkSPORT

SILVER
Everton: Nothing Will Be The Same
BBC Studios

BRONZE
Sportsworld 
BBC World Service

BEST COVERAGE OF AN EVENT

GOLD WINNER
Windrush 75
Spiritland Productions for BBC Radio 2

SILVER
Clyde 1 The First 50 years
Clyde 1

BRONZE
The Great North Run
Metro Radio

THE COMEDY AWARD

GOLD WINNER
Laura Smyth: I Don’t Know What To Say 
BBC Studios

SILVER
The Skewer
unusual for BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake 
Sony Music

BEST MUSIC BREAKFAST SHOW
Supported by PRS & PPL

GOLD WINNER
Boogie in the Morning
Forth 1

SILVER
Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo and Rosie
Pulse 1

BRONZE
The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show
BBC Radio 2

BEST MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SHOW

GOLD WINNER
Scott Mills 
BBC Radio 2

SILVER
National Prison Radio’s Rock Show
Prison Radio Association

BRONZE
Penny Smith
Scala Radio

BEST SPECIALIST MUSIC SHOW

GOLD WINNER
Free Flow
Prison Radio Association

SILVER
Classical Connections Radio with Alexis Ffrench 
Apple Music Radio

BRONZE
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister

BEST MUSIC SPECIAL

GOLD WINNER
21st Century Folk 
7digital Creative for BBC Radio 2

SILVER
Change Your Tune
Podcart for The Bach Choir

BRONZE
How The UK Changed Hip Hop Forever 
BBC Audio

BEST FACTUAL – SINGLE PROGRAMME

GOLD WINNER
File on 4 – Jon Holmes, Generation Shame
BBC Radio 4

SILVER
Children Locked Away: Britain’s Modern Bedlam
Tortoise Media

BRONZE
Inside an Autistic Mind
Boffin Media for BBC News World Service

BEST FACTUAL – SERIES

GOLD WINNER
Terri White: Finding Britain’s Ghost Children 
BBC Radio 5 Live

SILVER
White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer
Whistledown Productions

BRONZE
I Am Not Nicholas
BBC Studios for Audible

BEST DRAMA

GOLD WINNER
The Sisters
Goldhawk Productions for Realm FM, in association with Lights out

SILVER
Sherlock & Co
Goalhanger

BRONZE
Hamlet Noir
Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3

BEST AUDIOBOOK OR READING

GOLD WINNER
Open Throat 
BBC Audio Wales and the West of England

SILVER
Rave New World
Bonnier Books UK

BRONZE
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
Orion Publishing

BEST STATION SOUND

GOLD WINNER
BBC Radio 1Xtra

SILVER
Absolute Radio

BRONZE
talkSPORT

BEST COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP

GOLD WINNER
A Place To Call Home 
Audio Always

SILVER
Change Your Tune
Podcart for The Bach Choir

BRONZE
Today with tonies
Mags Creative

BEST LOCAL SHOW
Supported by RCS

GOLD WINNER
Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie
Pulse 1

SILVER
The Graham Liver Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Lancashire

BRONZE
Boogie in the Morning
Forth 1

THE IMPACT AWARD

GOLD WINNER
Stoma Swimmer 
BBC Radio Newcastle

SILVER
Seven: Rob Burrow
BBC Radio Leeds

BRONZE
Different: Nicky Campbell
BBC Radio 5 Live and Audio Always

THE CREATIVE INNOVATION AWARD
Supported by All In Media/Xperi

GOLD WINNER
Seven: Rob Burrow
BBC Radio Leeds

SILVER
My Dream Dinner Party: Series 5 
Tuning Fork for BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Hamlet Noir 
Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3

THE GRASSROOTS AWARD
Supported by BBC Sounds

GOLD WINNER
Three Ways to Save a Life
BBC Radio Manchester

SILVER
300 Seconds Podcast
Ocean Youth Radio

BRONZE
Life After Prison
Prison Radio Association

COMMUNITY STATION OF THE YEAR

GOLD WINNER
RNIB Connect Radio

SILVER
Radio Platfform

BRONZE
ALL FM

THE JOHN MYERS STATION OF THE YEAR AWARD
Supported by News Broadcasting

GOLD WINNER
BBC Radio Manchester

SILVER
Reform Radio

BRONZE
Clyde 1 

UK STATION OR NETWORK OF THE YEAR
Supported by Arqiva

GOLD WINNER
BBC Asian Network

SILVER
talkSPORT

BRONZE
Fun Kids

RADIO TIMES MOMENT OF THE YEAR
Voted by the public

GOLD WINNER
John Robins reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery
BBC Radio 5 Live

SILVER
Ken Bruce joins Greatest Hits Radio
Greatest Hits Radio

BRONZE
Luton Town are promoted to the Premier League
BBC 3 Counties

THE PIONEER AWARD

GOLD WINNER
Annie Nightingale