Winners and Nominees on R4 and 4 Extra: Audio Drama Awards
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15:41, Wednesday, 1 February 2012
BBc Audio Drama Awards 2012
On Sunday evening Broadcasting House London hosted the first Ö÷²¥´óÐã Audio Drama awards. When comedian Johnny Vegas gave the award for best Audio Drama to Radio 4's Lost Property he said that Radio is CGI for the soul. In a movie CGI is very expensive, on radio it is wonderfully cheap: we tell the story, you bring your imagination. That is true alchemy.
Radio 4 and 4 Extra will be giving you a chance to hear some of the winners and nominees from the Awards.
Katie Hims' Lost Property won the top Oscar - it is a three part Afternoon Play about a family who have an uncanny knack of losing each other. I hope you agree that it is both heart breaking and heart warming, with Rosie Cavaliero - who won Best Actress at the awards - giving the most beautiful performance. The last part went out today at 2.15pm, but I heard them in the wrong order and it still floored me; all three are available on Listen Again until next week. You might need to have a handkerchief nearby.
Next week we are broadcasting Nick Perry's Referee (Tuesday 7 Feb at 2.15pm) for which Andrew Scott won the award for best supporting actor as Koch. It is a piece about how a top flight soccer referee is corrupted, and Koch - more sinister and elusive even than Moriarty who Andrew plays on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One's Sherlock - is his nemesis.
On Wednesday 8 Feb there is a second chance to hear Gerontius, for which Stephen Wyatt won the for best original radio script. It is an ambitious, clever, moving piece about the beatification of Cardinal Newman.
4 Extra will be broadcasting a week of winners and nominees.
Hugh Hughes' Floating is on at 11.15am and 00.45am on Tuesday 7 Feb. It won the award for best scripted comedy. I promise you, you will not have heard anything quite like this story of how Anglesey breaks free from Wales, floats half way round the world until seagulls come to the rescue.
On Wed 8 Feb Nick Warburton's Setting a Glass will go out at 11.15am and 00.45am. It was shortlisted for the Tinniswood (which Nick has won before), and is a hauntingly beautiful play about loss.
On Thursday 9 at 11.15am and 00.45am the raucous gypsy drama Atching Tan by Dan Allum and on Friday 10 at 11.15am and 00.45am Marcia Layne's wonderfully bizarre play about dreadlocks, The Barber and the Ark - both writers were nominees for the for first radio plays - two writers with enormous promise, two writers to watch out for.
I think it is important to celebrate awards - we hope you enjoy celebrating them with us by tuning into award-winning drama on Radio 4 and 4 Extra.
Jeremy Howe is commissioning editor for drama, Radio 4
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