Gongfest

13 golds for programmes on BBC Radio in the industry's most important awards, The Arias. Charlotte Moore is very pleased.  

News coverage: George Floyd Killing: The Trial - Today Programme, BBC Radio 4. Featuring reports from Barbara Plett-Usher, working with BBC LA-based producer Samantha Granville

Speech breakfast: The Wake Up Call - BBC Radio Kent. Presenter is Anna Cookson, who also does voiceovers, and has a novel under her belt, The Sound of Your Soul

Speech presenter: Emma Barnett - Womans Hour, on BBC Radio 4

Sports show: Fight of the Century, made by TBI Media, for BBC Radio 5 Live. Narrated by Nas, the story of Ali v Frazier in seven episodes

Coverage of an event: Liverpool Together - BBC Radio Merseyside, broadcast on the first anniversary of lockdown, a programme of poetry and music, with the performers in an empty St George's Hall

Comedy: The Skewer - Unusual Productions, for BBC Radio 4. Digital razor-blader Jon Holmes mangles news clips. 

Music entertainment show: The last Radio 1's Dance Party with Annie Mac - We Are Grape, for BBC Radio 1

Best factual - single programme: The Nazi Next Door - BBC Radio 4. Nick Southall on the story of John Kingston, who wanted to find out whether or not his stepfather, Stanislaw Chrzanowski, was, in fact, a Nazi war criminal.

Best fictional storytelling: Little Blue Lines - BBC Audio, for Radio 4. Kate Rawson's frank drama about miscarriage.

Station sound: BBC Radio 1Xtra - BBC Popular Music Station Sound, led by Matt Fisher

The Impact Award, slightly oddly supported by building suppliers Wickes: Woman's Hour: Trafficked in Plain Sight - BBC Audio, for Radio 4, an investigation by Carolyn Atkinson

Local Radio Show: Justin Dealey - BBC Three Counties Radio - a three hour late-night Saturday show, also broadcast on Radio Northampton, BBC Essex, Radio Norfolk, Radio Suffolk, and Radio Cambridgeshire. (A tad regional ?)

Radio Times moment of the year, voted for by the public online: Adele Roberts returns to Radio 1 after bowel cancer treatment