The ARIAS, which are the UK audio and radio awards, announced its nominations earlier this week and there are many podcasts (and podcasters) up for awards.
The BEST FACTUAL AWARD includes these podcasts
- Three BBC Radio 4 series, including Country Lines by Phoebe McIndoe, Grenfell: Building a Disaster by Kate Lamble and Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion by Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie
- There’s also the Wondery and Novel series Kill List by the journalist Carl Miller
- The Pitcairn Trials by the journalist Luke Jones and the team at Audio Always
- The Trapped, by Daniel Hewitt and ITV News
- And Apple’s The Story of No. 1: Lauryn Hill’s the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (subscribers only)
Meanwhile BEST FACTUAL: SINGLE EPISODE AWARD includes
- The Guardian’s technology series Black Box
- The Daily T Investigates: The Grenfell inquiry that 'delayed justice'
- The Economist’s Weekend Intelligence: Portrait of the Proud Boys (subscribers only)
- BBC Radio 4’s Degraded by Deepfakes by File on 4
- ‘Our Whole Life is a Secret’ by Radio 4’s Crossing Continents
- An interview with Esther Ghey, the mother of Brianna Ghey, by Virgin Radio Pridecast
And in the BEST COMEDY award some of the podcasts include
- Green Wing: Resuscitated on Audible (subscribers only)
- Help I Sexted My Boss with William Hanson and Jordan North on Audible Always
- Mark Steel’s in Town on BBC Radio 4
- Time of the Week on BBC Radio 4
- And Kathy Burke’s Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake on Sony
And that’s not all. There are a lot of other podcast nominees besides. You can see the whole list of nominees by heading to ARIAS website.
