ARIAS 2023 Winners 

Best New Presenter, supported by Insanity Group

• GOLD: Zak and Jules - Life After Prison podcast
• SILVER: Harriet Rose - KISS FM UK
• BRONZE: Alyx Holcombe - BBC Introducing Rock on Radio 1
• Nominated: Alex Kapranos - Absolute Radio
• Nominated: Dan Jones - This Is History podcast
• Nominated: Kathy Burke - Where There’s a Will There’s A Wake podcast
• Nominated: Marianna Spring - BBC Sounds and Radio 4
• Nominated: Pria Rai - BBC Newsbeat
• Nominated: Sam Thompson - Hits Radio

Best New Radio Show, supported by Carver PR

• GOLD: Room 5 - BBC Radio 4
• SILVER: Shaun Keaveny's Community Garden Radio
• BRONZE: Patrick Kielty - Banana Stand for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Nominated: The Bald Builders Breakfast - Fix Radio
• Nominated: Breakfast with Rima - BBC Radio Leeds
• Nominated: The Heating and Plumbing Show - Fix Radio

Best News Coverage, supported by Radio News Hub

• GOLD: The Smugglers’ Trail - BBC Audio Documentaries Unit for Radio 4
• SILVER: Stories of Our Times: The British Man Rescuing Ukrainians from Putin’s War - Wireless Studios for The Times
• BRONZE: Sitrep: Inside Ukraine's Capital - BFBS
• Nominated: Good Ship BrewDog - BBC Scotland News
• Nominated: Hits Radio Brand Network UK - Bauer Media Audio News
• Nominated: The Open Secret - Sky News
• Nominated: Sensemaker - Tortoise Media
• Nominated: Slow Newscast - Tortoise Media
• Nominated: Today, The Fall of Boris Johnson - BBC Radio 4

Best Speech Breakfast Show

• GOLD: 5 Live Breakfast - BBC Radio 5 Live
• SILVER: Today - BBC Radio 4
• BRONZE: Good Morning Ulster - BBC Radio Ulster
• Nominated: David Prever's Breakfast Club - BBC Radio Oxford
• Nominated: talkSPORT Breakfast
• Nominated: Times Radio Breakfast with Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell

Best Speech Presenter, supported by Presenterly

• GOLD: Adrian Durham - talkSPORT
• SILVER: Dan Snow - History Hit podcast
• BRONZE: Helena Merriman - BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Dan Jones - This is History podcast
• Nominated: Elis James & John Robins - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Nominated: John Pienaar - Times Radio
• Nominated: Manveen Rana - Stories of our Times podcast
• Nominated: Matt Chorley - Times Radio
• Nominated: Nicky Campbell - BBC Radio 5 Live

Best Sports Show

• GOLD: Moment of Truth - Folding Pocket Productions for BBC Sounds
• SILVER: The Big Saturday Football Show - Forth 1 & The Hits Radio Network Scotland
• BRONZE: Fast and Loose - Novel for Wondery
• Nominated: Gameday Exclusive - talkSPORT
• Nominated: The High Performance Podcast
• Nominated: The Lionesses in Stoke - BBC Radio Stoke
• Nominated: The Official Manchester United Podcast - Audio Always for Manchester United
• Nominated: Rugby Breakfast Show - BBC Radio Scotland
• Nominated: White & Jordan – talkSPORT

Best Coverage of an Event

• GOLD: Mental Health Awareness Week - Absolute Radio
• SILVER: The Discovery of Endurance - Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast
• BRONZE: The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final - talkSPORT
• Nominated: The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Nominated: Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 - BBC Radio WM
• Nominated: The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Nominated: The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - talkSPORT
• Nominated: Savannah Marshall fight coverage - BBC Radio Tees
• Nominated: The UK Black Pride Time Capsule Podcast - AiAi Studios

The Comedy Award

• GOLD: The Skewer: The Queen - unusual for BBC Radio 4
• SILVER: Nature Table - BBC Studios for Radio 4
• BRONZE: From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast, Series 2 - Baby Cow for Audible
• Nominated: Cool Skool Sketch Show - unusual for KMFM
• Nominated: Frank Skinner - Avalon for Absolute Radio
• Nominated: IM1 The Worst Bits and More - Manx Radio
• Nominated: NonCensored - Lead Mojo Productions
• Nominated: Robin Ince’s Reality Tunnel - BBC Studios for Radio 4
• Nominated: Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake podcast - Sony Music Entertainment 

Best Music Breakfast Show, supported by MusicMaster Scheduling

• GOLD: 1Xtra Breakfast with Nadia Jae - BBC Audio for Radio 1Xtra
• SILVER: Big John at Breakfast - Hallam FM
• BRONZE: Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - BBC Audio for Radio 1
• Nominated: The Hits Radio Breakfast Show with Fleur East, James & Matt
• Nominated: Steve and Karen's Breakfast Show - Metro Radio
• Nominated: The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show - BBC Audio for Radio 2

Best Music Entertainment Show, supported by PPL and PRS for Music

• GOLD: Craig Charles - Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music
• SILVER: My Life - Mighty Mouth Productions for Fun Kids
• BRONZE: Throwback Throwdown - We Are Grape for BBC Sounds
• Garry Spence - Clyde 1 and the Hits Radio Network Scotland
• Hometime with Bush and Richie - Absolute Radio
• Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton - Somethin' Else for BBC Radio 2

Best Specialist Music Show

• GOLD: For the Love of Hip Hop with Romesh Ranganathan - Folded Wing for Radio 2 and BBC Sounds
• SILVER: Night Tracks - BBC Audio for Radio 3
• BRONZE: National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
• Nominated: ChillDaBeats with Phil Taggart
• Nominated: Folk on Foot
• Nominated: Free Flow - National Prison Radio
• Nominated: Radio 1's Future Artists With Jack Saunders - Listen for BBC Radio 1
• Nominated: Rocket Hour with Elton John - Apple Music Radio
• Nominated: Selector Radio with Jamz Supernova - Folded Wing for The British Council

Best Music Special

• GOLD: Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with Nile Rodgers - Apple Music Radio
• SILVER: A Career in Music with Harmony Samuels - Cast Iron Radio for BBC Radio 4
• BRONZE: Pass The Mic - Novel for KISS FM
• Nominated: Access All Areas - Scala Radio
• Nominated: Folk on Foot - The Musical Village of Pathhead, Midlothian
• Nominated: Pride Not Prejudice - The Content Works for Greatest Hits Radio
• Nominated: Short Stories: 200 Years of the Royal Academy of Music - Rhubarb Rhubarb
• Nominated: Techno: A Social History - Cup & Nuzzle for BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Turn it Up: A Short History of Drum & Bass - Cup & Nuzzle for BBC Radio 1 

Best Factual – Single Programme

• GOLD: File on 4: Isobel's Story - BBC Radio 4
• SILVER: Justice for The 97 - BBC Radio Merseyside
• BRONZE: Nightwatch - BBC Scotland Productions for BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: A Finding of Rape - Tortoise Media
• Nominated: The Legacy of Terry Higgins - Audio Always for Virgin Radio Pride
• Nominated: Unoffending Paedophiles: Clinical or criminal? - Media Storm Podcast
• Nominated: Stories of Our Times: The British Man Rescuing Ukrainians from Putin’s War - Wireless Studios for The Times
• Nominated: The Story of the Four Aces - Virgin Radio UK
• Nominated: Trans Truths: Living Authentically - This Is Distorted for Virgin Radio Pride

Best Factual – Series, supported by The Podcast Show London

• GOLD: In Dark Corners - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio 4
• SILVER: Who Killed Daphne? - Wondery
• BRONZE: Assume Nothing: The Last Request - BBC Radio Ulster and Radio 4
• Nominated: Disaster Trolls - BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Last Man Standing - Wireless Studios for The Times
• Nominated: The Secret History of Flight 149 - Crowd Network
• Nominated: Sonic Landscapes of Colour - Somin Somatic with BBC Radio Devon
• Nominated: Ukraine War Diaries - Sky News
• Nominated: Women of Country - Audio Always for Absolute Radio Country

Best New Podcast, supported by Audible

• GOLD: Colouring In Britain - BBC Sounds Audio Lab
• SILVER: Go Love Yourself - Crowd Network
• BRONZE: Off The Beaten Jack - Jack Boswell
• Nominated: Betwixt the Sheets - History Hit
• Nominated: Good Ship BrewDog - BBC Scotland News
• Nominated: Life After Prison - Prison Radio Association
• Nominated: The Men's Room - talkSPORT
• Nominated: Ukrainecast - BBC News for BBC Sounds
• Nominated: Waterlands - 18Sixty for the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Best Drama

• GOLD: Dear Harry Kane - BBC Audio Drama London for Radio 4
• SILVER: Algorithms - RooksNest for Audible
• BRONZE: The Rez - Rezilience and Gen Z Media
• Nominated: Dingus - Mike Cooter for Resonance FM
• Nominated: Hilda - Forever Audio
• Nominated: In the Beginning... - Social Broadcasts for Fun Kids
• Nominated: Love Across the Ages - Naked Productions for BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: The Nox - Coex Studios for Audible
• Nominated: Our Friends in the North 1964 - Sparklab Productions for BBC Radio 4

Best Audiobook or Reading

• GOLD: A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney - Coronet Books
• SILVER: This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan - BBC Audio Books for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
• BRONZE: Voices in the Valley by Andrew Michael Hurley - BBC Audio Books for Radio 4
• Nominated: Meanwhile Back On Earth by Oliver Jeffers - HarperCollins Publishers
• Nominated: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - BBC Audio for Radio 4
• Nominated: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill - Granny Eats Wolf for Audible

Best Station Sound

• GOLD: BBC Radio 1Xtra - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
• SILVER: Fix Radio - Devaweb & Fix Radio
• BRONZE: The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on talkSPORT - Wireless Creative
• Nominated: BBC Radio 1 - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
• Nominated: BBC Radio 6 Music - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
• Nominated: Clyde 1 Superscoreboard

Best Commercial Partnership, supported by AudioExperts

• GOLD: Magic Radio Breakfast with On the Beach
• SILVER: Free Flow sponsored by Shannon Trust - National Prison Radio
• BRONZE: The Thursday Team Talk with Macmillan Cancer Support – talkSPORT
• Nominated: A Life More Wild - 18Sixty for Canopy & Stars
• Nominated: How We’re Wired - Fresh Air, for The Bertarelli Foundation
• Nominated: Living With Feeling - Rhubarb Rhubarb for The Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University London

The Creative Innovation Award, supported by All In Media

• GOLD: Fun Kids Mission Transmission
• SILVER: Soundworlds
• BRONZE: Radio 1’s Murder Mystery - BBC Audio for Radio 1
• Nominated: Absolute Radio Natalie
• Nominated: National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
• Nominated: Radio 3's Soundscape of a Century - BBC Audio for Radio 3
• Nominated: Room 5 - BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Stories of the Stalked - Ventureland for Audible
• Nominated: The Woman in Black - Granny Eats Wolf for Audible 

The Grassroots Award, supported by BBC Sounds

• GOLD: United Against Knife Crime - BBC Radio Merseyside
• SILVER: Life After Prison podcast - Prison Radio Association
• BRONZE: Ocean Youth Radio
• Nominated: The Big Baton Challenge - BBC Radio Leeds
• Nominated: Chaos at Calverton Lights - BBC Radio Nottingham
• Nominated: Cost of Living Clinics - BBC Radio Oxford
• Nominated: Footprints Podcast - Bathscape
• Nominated: Surviving Society Presents: Material Crimes
• Nominated: What The Pox? - Martin Joseph & Jamie Wareham for QueerAF

The Impact Award, supported by Wickes

• GOLD: You, Me, and the Big C - BBC Radio 5 Live
• SILVER: In Dark Corners - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio 4
• BRONZE: Justice for Joseph - Hits Radio Manchester
• Nominated: The Cruelty: A Child Unclaimed - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio Scotland and BBC Sounds
• Nominated: The High Performance Podcast
• Nominated: Hits Radio Pride: Faith, Sex & Me - Loftus Media
• Nominated: Looking for Esther - That Old Chestnut Productions and Big Light, for Spotify
• Nominated: National Prison Radio
• Nominated: Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World - Message Heard for The Kyiv Independent

Best Local Show, supported by RCS

• GOLD: Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie
• SILVER: Justin Dealey - BBC Three Counties Radio
• BRONZE: The Big Saturday Football Show - Forth 1 & The Hits Radio Network Scotland
• Nominated: Footprints Podcast - Bathscape
• Nominated: Gary Philipson - BBC Radio Tees
• Nominated: The Graham Liver Breakfast Show - BBC Radio Lancashire
• Nominated: Hits at Breakfast with JD and Roisin - Free Radio
• Nominated: Ryecast - Real Life Stories From Rye
• Nominated: The Very Best of Pete Price

The 2022 Special Award, following the death of HM The Queen

• GOLD: Daily News Reportage - James Bryant & Jonny Dymond, for BBC News
• SILVER: The Skewer: The Queen - unusual for BBC Radio 4
• BRONZE: The Second Elizabethan Age - Tortoise Media
• Nominated: All The Queen's Horses - talkSPORT
• Nominated: BBC Network Radio
• Nominated: BBC Newsbeat
• Nominated: The Final Journey of Queen Elizabeth II - Bauer Media Audio UK News Team
• Nominated: FT Weekend - Financial Times
• Nominated: Sitrep: King Charles III, Commander in Chief - BFBS

Community Station of the Year, supported by Markettiers

• GOLD: Vectis Radio - The Isle of Wight
• SILVER: Bro Radio - The Vale of Glamorgan
• BRONZE: Pride Radio - North East of England
• Nominated: Alfred - Shaftesbury
• Nominated: Shine Radio - Petersfield
• Nominated: Wycombe Sound - High Wycombe

The John Myers Station of the Year, supported by News Broadcasting

• GOLD: Clyde 1
• SILVER: BBC Radio Merseyside
• BRONZE: BBC Radio Ulster
• Nominated: BBC Radio Northampton
• Nominated: Forth 1
• Nominated: Wave 105

UK Station or Network of the Year, supported by Arqiva

• GOLD: BBC Radio 4
• SILVER: talkSPORT
• BRONZE: BBC Radio 6 Music
• Nominated: BBC Radio 1
• Nominated: Fun Kids
• Nominated: Times Radio

Radio Times Moment of the Year

• GOLD: Tony Livesey won’t say goodbye to Dame Deborah James on BBC Radio 5 Live
• SILVER: Fun Kids’ Mission Transmission
• BRONZE: Liz Truss BBC Local Radio interviews
• Nominated: Boris Johnson resigns, on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Brenda Edwards sings to her late son Jamal on his birthday, on BBC Three Counties Radio
• Nominated: England win EURO 2022, on talkSPORT
• Nominated: Kate Moss on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4
• Nominated: Nicky Campbell talks about childhood abuse, on BBC Radio 5 Live
• Nominated: Scotland vs Ukraine show opener, on Clyde 1
• Nominated: The Resignation of Nimco Ali, on Times Radio