Aradhna Tayal Leach, Managing Director of The Radio Academy says:
“I’m thrilled to announce the nominees for The Radio Academy ARIAS 2025. Each nominee showcases the exceptional storytelling, innovative teams, and diverse work that the UK proudly offers, impacting deep within local communities and making waves globally. The ARIAS is always one of the year’s highlights, and I’m excited to join my peers in celebrating the very best of UK audio and radio.”

The ARIAs were created by The Radio Academy – a charity dedicated to supporting people in audio and radio.

The ARIAs award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 14th May at Leicester Square’s ODEON Luxe. Tickets for the ARIAs are on sale now.

Full List of Nominees

Best Commercial Partnership Award

Dead River – Audio Always for Pogust Goodhead
Empowering Young Lives – KISS and KFC
Fun Kids Teacher of the Year with Collection Pot – Fun Kids
Hold or Fold with GambleAware – Prison Radio Association
The Mid.Point: Sweaty Betty Special – Spiritland Productions
Scottish Island Adventures – The Big Light

Best Event Coverage Award

BBC Proms 2024 – BBC Radio 3
Coldplay go Orange for Luton – BBC Three Counties Radio
Coverage of the Paralympics – RNIB Connect Radio
Forest are Magic – Forest Focus
Isle of Man TT Races: The TT Podcast – Audio Always
Magic Celebrates Diwali – Magic Radio
Radio 1’s Pedal Power for Red Nose Day – BBC Radio 1
Superscoreboard at EURO 2024 – Clyde 1
Sycamore Gap: One Year On – National Trust

Best Drama or Fiction Award

Sponsored by Audible

1984 – Audible
Central Intelligence – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
Life & Time – BBC Radio 4
The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Poirot Mystery – Audible
One Hundred and Fifty Days – BBC Audio Scotland for BBC Radio 4
Ruthie Henshall Sees Dead People – Magic Radio
The Skies Are Watching – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
UNSINKABLE – Datura Studios and North Atlantic Ridge in association with B7 Media and AudioMarvels
Zeroes – BBC Studios Audio for Audible

Best Comedy Award (Show or Presenter)

Christmas Dinner with Kurupt FM – Prison Radio Association
Green Wing: Resuscitated – Audible
Help I Sexted My Boss – Audio Always
IM1: 60 Years and Counting, Sadly… – Manx Radio
Mark Steel’s in Town – BBC Radio 4
The Menagerie – Radio M29
The Skewer – Unusual Productions for BBC Radio 4
Time of The Week – DLT Entertainment for BBC Radio 4
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake – Sony Music Entertainment

Best Factual Series Award

Band Aid at 40 – Gimme Sugar Productions for Virgin Radio
Country Lines – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
Grenfell: Building a Disaster – BBC Radio 4
Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
Ken Bruce on Drums – Jazz FM
Kill List – Novel and Wondery
The Pitcairn Trial – Audio Always
The Trapped – ITN / ITV News
The Story of No. 1: Lauryn Hill’s the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – 100 Best Albums Radio, Apple Music

Best Factual Single Episode Award

Between the Ears: Henry Mancini – BBC Radio 3
Black Box – The Guardian
The Daily T: The Grenfell inquiry that ‘delayed justice’ – The Telegraph
Deep Hidden Meaning: will.i.am – Apple Music Radio
Degraded by Deepfakes: File on 4 Investigates – BBC Radio 4
Esther Ghey & Jaxon Feeley: Reclaiming influence – Virgin Radio Pridecast
NATO75: An Alliance Rescue – BFBS
Our Whole Life is a Secret – BBC Radio 4
The Weekend Intelligence: A Portrait of the Proud Boys – The Economist

Best Music Award (Show or Presenter)

Annie Nightingale: A Life in Music – We Are Grape for BBC Radio 1
Radio 1’s Dance Party with Danny Howard – BBC Radio 1
Classical Connections Radio with Alexis Ffrench – Apple Music Radio
The Dance Music Archive with Andi Durrant – This is Distorted for KISSTORY
The Eras Podcast, hosted by Abbie McCarthy – Good Karma
Free Flow – Prison Radio Association
Folk on Foot – Matthew Bannister
Indie Forever – We are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music
Phil Taggart’s ChillDaBeats – Slack Panda Productions

Best Music Breakfast Radio Show

The Bald Builders Breakfast – Fix Radio
Boogie in the Morning – Forth 1
Bowie@Breakfast – Clyde 1
Breakfast – BBC Radio 3
Breakfast with Greg James – BBC Radio 1
Breakfast with Nadia Jae – BBC Radio 1Xtra

Best Music Entertainment Award (Show or Presenter)

Sponsored by PPL & PRS for Music

Barry Island Discs: Gavin & Stacey’s Big Songs Send Off – BBC Radio Wales
The Cavern Podcast – The Cavern Club
Earlier… with Jools Holland – BBC Radio 3
Gemma Atkinson & Mike Toolan – Hits Radio
Haroon Rashid – BBC Asian Network
Hometime with Bush and Richie – Absolute Radio
Ruthie Henshall Sees Dead People – Magic Radio
Scott Mills – BBC Radio 2
The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show – Greatest Hits Radio

Best New Presenter

Sponsored by News Broadcasting

Beth Wallace – Forth 1
Bronwen Lewis – BBC Radio Wales
Chance Litchfield – Fix Radio
Emma Nagouse – Muses: An Ampersand Podcast
Helen Pidd – The Guardian
May Robson – BBC Sounds Audio Lab
Niall Breslin – The Madman’s Hotel, Audible
Phoebe McIndoe – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
Scout Tzofiya Bolton – Prison Radio Association

Best News or Current Affairs Award

Sponsored by Markettiers

90 Seconds to Midnight – Daily Mail
The 2024 ‘Genny Lex’ – KISS
Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump – Times Radio
The Boys Are Not Alright – Audio Always for BBC Radio 4
Electoral Dysfunction – Sky News
Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
Pod Save The UK – Reduced Listening and Crooked Media
Sitrep – BFBS
Southport – BBC Radio Merseyside

Best Sonic Branding Award

BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Clyde 1 Superscoreboard
Fix Radio
Greatest Hits Radio 60s

Best Speech Breakfast Radio Show Award

Sponsored by Radio News Hub

5 Live Breakfast – BBC Radio 5 Live
The Graham Liver Breakfast Show – BBC Radio Lancashire
The Kevin Duala Breakfast Show – BBC Radio Merseyside
talkSPORT Breakfast – talkSPORT
Times Radio Breakfast – Times Radio
Today – BBC Radio 4

Best Speech Entertainment Award (Show or Presenter)

Sponsored by Carver PR

Believe In People: Addiction, Recovery & Stigma – ReNew
British Scandal – Wondery & Samizdat Audio
Elis James and John Robins – Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
Help I sexted My Boss – Audio Always
Jon Holmes Says The C-Word – Unusual Productions for BBC Radio 4
Josie Long – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
The Louis Theroux Podcast – Mindhouse Productions
Matt Chorley – BBC Radio 5 Live
Overnights With Martin Kelner – talkSPORT

Best Sports Award (Show or Presenter)

The Big Scottish Football Show – Forth 1
From Extinction to Promotion – BBC Radio Derby Sport
Gameday – talkSPORT
Guardian Football Weekly – The Guardian
Men in Blazers: Early Kick Off – Men in Blazers and Footwork Media for Wondery
P1 with Matt & Tommy – Stak
Premier League Sunday – BBC Radio 5 Live
Test Match Special – BBC Radio 5 Live
White & Jordan – talkSPORT

The Creative or Technical Innovation Award

Sponsored by AIM / Xperi

6 Music’s Way with Words – Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music
The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag – Prison Radio Association
Fun Kids Space Station – Fun Kids
Fun Kids Time Machine – Fun Kids
The Gossip Gays: Who Killed Danny Beard? – Audio Always
Help I Sexted My Boss, in cinemas – Audio Always
Lowlines – Social Broadcasts and Scenery Studios
OUTCAST UK with Graeme Smith – 7th Planet for Virgin Radio Pride
Sleep Tracks – Peanut & Crumb for BBC Radio 3 Unwind

The Social Impact Award

Sponsored by BBC Sounds

Assume Nothing – Femicide: Eight Steps to Stop a Murder – BBC Radio Ulster
Black History Month: Raising The Next Generation – Hits Radio
Clare’s Law: A Decade of Saving Lives – Hits Radio
The Culture Colonel – BFBS
Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
Life After Prison – Prison Radio Association
The Madman’s Hotel – Audible
The Quiet Place – BBC Radio 5 Live
The Quilt – Aunt Nell

Local Radio Station of the Year

Sponsored by RCS

BBC Radio Cornwall
BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Radio Derby
Forth 1
Clyde 1
Portsmouth’s Express FM

UK Audio Brand of the Year

Apple Music Radio
BBC Sounds
Goalhanger Podcasts
Rayo – Bauer Media Audio UK
Tortoise Media
Yoto

UK Radio Station or Radio Network of the Year

Sponsored by Arqiva

BBC Asian Network
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 5 Live
Fun Kids
Greatest Hits Radio
talkSPORT

Radio Times Moment of the Year

Johnnie Walker’s Final Show on Sounds of the 70’s – Listen for BBC Radio 2
Radio 4’s PM Laura Trott Interview – BBC Radio 4
Sunday Love Songs Remembering Steve Wright – BBC Radio 2
‘I want my mum to die’ – Stuart George on BBC Radio Stoke
Coldplay go Orange for Luton – BBC 3 Counties Radio
BBC Radio 4’s Today: Mishal Husain and James Cleverly – BBC News
A listener unexpectedly calls Cristo Foufas’ final show to thank him for saving his life – TALK
Marjorie Taylor Greene blames media for Trump assassination attempt – Times Radio
Dan Noble speaks out about the far-right riots across the UK – Absolute Radio
Frank off the Radio – The Frank Skinner Project, Avalon

For more information about the ARIAs and The Radio Academy, take a look at The Radio Academy website.

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This past weekend saw the British Podcast Awards return to commemorate the cream of the podcasting crop. Here is the full list of the winners in their respective categories. If you would like to hear a sample of this year’s winners, there is a short, six-part series available on the British Podcast Awards website, here.

AUDIOBOOM PODCAST OF THE YEAR

HAVE YOU HEARD GEORGE’S PODCAST?

This year’s biggest winner, walking away with no fewer than five awards, George the Poet is clearly a deserved winner. His show explores socio-economic and political themes through poetry and music. George somewhat swept the board this year- also winning Best Arts and Culture,Best Fiction,Best New Podcast & Smartest Podcast.

Listen on Acast

BBC SOUNDS LISTENER’S CHOICE

BREXITCAST

190,000 can’t be wrong! With Brexit resembling something of an enigma, wrapped inside an enigma, the hosts attempt to guide their listeners through the more confusing parts of Brexit.

Listen on Acast

PODCAST CHAMPION 2019

MY DAD WROTE A PORNO

No doubt, the hosts of My Dad Wrote A Porno could never have guessed that some raunchy stories could have launched one of the most successful podcasts of the last few years.

Listen on Acast

ACAST MOMENT OF THE YEAR

YOU, ME & THE BIG C

Turning a negative into a positive is an extraordinary achievement. A show dedicated to an ongoing battle with cancer, stories from three incredible women and dealing with bereavement in real time. This is a powerful example of what our medium can do.

Listen on Acast

BEST BRANDED PODCAST

SELFRIDGES – HOT AIR

An exploration into the blending of commerce and sustainability, in-depth stories and quality audio production lend to a hugely enjoyable listen.

Listen on Acast

BULLSEYE AWARD (SPONSORED BY PODIANT)

PROBABLY TRUE PODCAST

Self-proclaimed “smutty-but- charming” stories from people who identify as LGBTQ. These stories of real people are some of the most important to be told today, if tolerance and understanding are to be valued.

Listen on Acast

BEST COMEDY PODCAST (SUPPORTED BY SPOTIFY)

DEAR JOAN & JERICHA

From the creators of Nighty Night, hosts, Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine adopt the characters of agony aunts, who are ‘well-experienced’ to say the least. Absolutely NSFW!

Listen on Acast

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS

THE GRENFELL TOWER ENQUIRY w/ EDDIE MAIR

Again, showcasing what our medium can do. Haunting tales of one of the worst disasters in recent memory, incredibly moving stories from the people who were there.

Listen on Acast

BEST ENTERTAINMENT (SUPPORTED BY SONY MUSIC’S 4TH FLOOR CREATIVE)

THIS PARANORMAL LIFE

Previously featured in The Book of Joe #003 , This Paranormal Life features some of the best audio production in podcasting, while hosts Rory and Kit dissect some of the greatest paranormal mysteries never solved.

Listen on Acast

BEST FAMILY PODCAST

SURROGACY: A FAMILY FRONTIER

An exploration and discussions into what a family really is. Setting aside traditional family models, the show details families which have been shaped by surrogacy, forming them into units of all shapes and sizes.

Listen on Acast

BEST INTERVIEW

THE MODERN MANN

Conversations on this show tell stories of incredible people- the likes of which we probably would never have heard without the medium of podcasts existing. A three-part show, comprising trends of the day, an interview with a guest and a section all about our favourite subject- sex!

Listen on Acast

SPOTLIGHT AWARD

THAT PETER CROUCH PODCAST

Peter Crouch, here, pulls back the curtain on professional football- discussing the minutiae of the beautiful game and all its quirks. Crouch goes against the stereotype of a footballer- charming, warm and honest.

Listen on Acast

BEST SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST

PROJECT PLEASURE

Praised as a guide which its listeners wished they had had at the appropriate ages, Project Pleasure delves into the sensual, the sexual and the everyday. Honesty being the best policy, the hosts open up about their own experiences.

BEST RADIO PODCAST (SUPPORTED BY RADIOPLAYER)

MULTI STORY

A podcast showcasing uniquely British stories from all corners of the England. Suported by stories from local radio, prepare to laugh, be moved and consider new ideas.

Listen on Acast

BEST SPORT

THE TOTALLY FOOTBALL SHOW

Taking the pub discussion of football to the podcast world, each week a panel is assembled to analyse, scrutinise and debate the latest developments in the country’s most popular sport.

Listen on Acast

BEST TRUE CRIME

CASE NOTES

A crime podcast with a focussed twist, Case Notes takes a look back at the bloodiest events in the history of music. Expect graverobbing, mysteries and composers obsessed with black magic.

Listen on Acast

Massive congratulations to all of this years winners and of course to all those nominated!

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