
ARIAS 2023 Nominations
Best New Presenter, supported by Insanity Group
- Alex Kapranos - Absolute Radio
- Alyx Holcombe - BBC Introducing Rock on Radio 1
- Dan Jones - This Is History podcast
- Harriet Rose - KISS FM UK
- Kathy Burke - Where There’s a Will There’s A Wake podcast
- Marianna Spring - BBC Sounds and Radio 4
- Pria Rai - BBC Newsbeat
- Sam Thompson - Hits Radio
- Zak and Jules - Life After Prison podcast
Best New Radio Show, supported by Carver PR
- The Bald Builders Breakfast - Fix Radio
- Breakfast with Rima - BBC Radio Leeds
- The Heating and Plumbing Show - Fix Radio
- Patrick Kielty - Banana Stand for BBC Radio 5 Live
- Room 5 - BBC Radio 4
- Shaun Keaveny's Community Garden Radio
Best News Coverage, supported by Radio News Hub
- Good Ship BrewDog - BBC Scotland News
- Hits Radio Brand Network UK - Bauer Media Audio News
- The Open Secret - Sky News
- Sensemaker - Tortoise Media
- Sitrep: Inside Ukraine's Capital - BFBS
- Slow Newscast - Tortoise Media
- The Smugglers’ Trail - BBC Audio Documentaries Unit for Radio 4
- Stories of Our Times: The British Man Rescuing Ukrainians from Putin’s War - Wireless Studios for The Times
- Today: The Fall of Boris Johnson - BBC Radio 4
Best Speech Breakfast Show
- 5 Live Breakfast - BBC Radio 5 Live
- David Prever's Breakfast Club - BBC Radio Oxford
- Good Morning Ulster - BBC Radio Ulster
- talkSPORT Breakfast
- Times Radio Breakfast with Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell
- Today - BBC Radio 4
Best Speech Presenter, supported by Presenterly
- Adrian Durham - talkSPORT
- Dan Jones - This is History podcast
- Dan Snow - History Hit podcast
- Elis James & John Robins - BBC Radio 5 Live
- Helena Merriman - BBC Radio 4
- John Pienaar - Times Radio
- Manveen Rana - Stories of our Times podcast
- Matt Chorley - Times Radio
- Nicky Campbell - BBC Radio 5 Live
Best Sports Show
- The Big Saturday Football Show - Forth 1 & The Hits Radio Network Scotland
- Fast and Loose - Novel for Wondery
- Gameday Exclusive - talkSPORT
- The High Performance Podcast
- The Lionesses in Stoke - BBC Radio Stoke
- Moment of Truth - Folding Pocket Productions for BBC Sounds
- The Official Manchester United Podcast - Audio Always for Manchester United
- Rugby Breakfast Show - BBC Radio Scotland
- White & Jordan – talkSPORT
Best Coverage of an Event
- The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final - BBC Radio 5 Live
- The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final - talkSPORT
- Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 - BBC Radio WM
- The Discovery of Endurance - Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast
- The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - BBC Radio 5 Live
- The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - talkSPORT
- Mental Health Awareness Week - Absolute Radio
- Savannah Marshall fight coverage - BBC Radio Tees
- The UK Black Pride Time Capsule Podcast - AiAi Studios
The Comedy Award
- Cool Skool Sketch Show - unusual for KMFM
- Frank Skinner - Avalon for Absolute Radio
- From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast, Series 2 - Baby Cow for Audible
- IM1 The Worst Bits and More - Manx Radio
- Nature Table - BBC Studios for Radio 4
- NonCensored - Lead Mojo Productions
- Robin Ince’s Reality Tunnel - BBC Studios for Radio 4
- The Skewer: The Queen - unusual for BBC Radio 4
- Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake podcast - Sony Music Entertainment
Best Music Breakfast Show, supported by MusicMaster Scheduling
- 1Xtra Breakfast with Nadia Jae - BBC Audio for Radio 1Xtra
- Big John at Breakfast - Hallam FM
- The Hits Radio Breakfast Show with Fleur East, James & Matt
- Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - BBC Audio for Radio 1
- Steve and Karen's Breakfast Show - Metro Radio
- The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show - BBC Audio for Radio 2
Best Music Entertainment Show, supported by PPL and PRS for Music
- Craig Charles - Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music
- Garry Spence - Clyde 1 and the Hits Radio Network Scotland
- Hometime with Bush and Richie - Absolute Radio
- My Life - Mighty Mouth Productions for Fun Kids
- Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton - Somethin' Else for BBC Radio 2
- Throwback Throwdown - We Are Grape for BBC Sounds
Best Specialist Music Show
- ChillDaBeats with Phil Taggart
- Folk on Foot
- For the Love of Hip Hop with Romesh Ranganathan - Folded Wing for Radio 2 and BBC Sounds
- Free Flow - National Prison Radio
- National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
- Night Tracks - BBC Audio for Radio 3
- Radio 1's Future Artists With Jack Saunders - Listen for BBC Radio 1
- Rocket Hour with Elton John - Apple Music Radio
- Selector Radio with Jamz Supernova - Folded Wing for The British Council
Best Music Special
- A Career in Music with Harmony Samuels - Cast Iron Radio for BBC Radio 4
- Access All Areas - Scala Radio
- Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with Nile Rodgers - Apple Music Radio
- Folk on Foot - The Musical Village of Pathhead, Midlothian
- Pass The Mic - Novel for KISS FM
- Pride Not Prejudice - The Content Works for Greatest Hits Radio
- Short Stories: 200 Years of the Royal Academy of Music - Rhubarb Rhubarb
- Techno: A Social History - Cup & Nuzzle for BBC Radio 4
- Turn it Up: A Short History of Drum & Bass - Cup & Nuzzle for BBC Radio 1
Best Factual – Single Programme
- A Finding of Rape - Tortoise Media
- File on 4: Isobel's Story - BBC Radio 4
- Justice for The 97 - BBC Radio Merseyside
- The Legacy of Terry Higgins - Audio Always for Virgin Radio Pride
- Unoffending Paedophiles: Clinical or criminal? - Media Storm Podcast
- Nightwatch - BBC Scotland Productions for BBC Radio 4
- Stories of Our Times: The British Man Rescuing Ukrainians from Putin’s War - Wireless Studios for The Times
- The Story of the Four Aces - Virgin Radio UK
- Trans Truths: Living Authentically - This Is Distorted for Virgin Radio Pride
Best Factual – Series, supported by The Podcast Show London
- Assume Nothing: The Last Request - BBC Radio Ulster and Radio 4
- Disaster Trolls - BBC Radio 4
- In Dark Corners - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio 4
- Last Man Standing - Wireless Studios for The Times
- The Secret History of Flight 149 - Crowd Network
- Sonic Landscapes of Colour - Somin Somatic with BBC Radio Devon
- Ukraine War Diaries - Sky News
- Who Killed Daphne? - Wondery
- Women of Country - Audio Always for Absolute Radio Country
Best New Podcast, supported by Audible
- Betwixt the Sheets - History Hit
- Colouring In Britain - BBC Sounds Audio Lab
- Go Love Yourself - Crowd Network
- Good Ship BrewDog - BBC Scotland News
- Life After Prison - Prison Radio Association
- The Men's Room - talkSPORT
- Off The Beaten Jack - Jack Boswell
- Ukrainecast - BBC News for BBC Sounds
- Waterlands - 18Sixty for the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Best Drama
- Algorithms - RooksNest for Audible
- Dear Harry Kane - BBC Audio Drama London for Radio 4
- Dingus - Mike Cooter for Resonance FM
- Hilda - Forever Audio
- In the Beginning... - Social Broadcasts for Fun Kids
- Love Across the Ages - Naked Productions for BBC Radio 4
- The Nox - Coex Studios for Audible
- Our Friends in the North 1964 - Sparklab Productions for BBC Radio 4
- The Rez - Rezilience and Gen Z Media
Best Audiobook or Reading
- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney - Coronet Books
- Meanwhile Back On Earth by Oliver Jeffers - HarperCollins Publishers
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - BBC Audio for Radio 4
- This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan - BBC Audio Books for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
- Voices in the Valley by Andrew Michael Hurley - BBC Audio Books for Radio 4
- The Woman In Black by Susan Hill - Granny Eats Wolf for Audible
Best Station Sound
- BBC Radio 1 - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
- BBC Radio 1Xtra - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
- BBC Radio 6 Music - BBC Popular Music Station Sound
- Clyde 1 Superscoreboard
- Fix Radio - Devaweb & Fix Radio
- The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on talkSPORT - Wireless Creative
Best Commercial Partnership, supported by AudioExperts
- A Life More Wild - 18Sixty for Canopy & Stars
- Free Flow sponsored by Shannon Trust - National Prison Radio
- How We’re Wired - Fresh Air, for The Bertarelli Foundation
- Living With Feeling - Rhubarb Rhubarb for The Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University London
- Magic Radio Breakfast with On the Beach
- The Thursday Team Talk with Macmillan Cancer Support – talkSPORT
The Creative Innovation Award, supported by All In Media
- Absolute Radio Natalie
- Fun Kids Mission Transmission
- National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
- Radio 1’s Murder Mystery - BBC Audio for Radio 1
- Radio 3's Soundscape of a Century - BBC Audio for Radio 3
- Room 5 - BBC Radio 4
- Soundworlds
- Stories of the Stalked - Ventureland for Audible
- The Woman in Black - Granny Eats Wolf for Audible
The Grassroots Award, supported by BBC Sounds
- The Big Baton Challenge - BBC Radio Leeds
- Chaos at Calverton Lights - BBC Radio Nottingham
- Cost of Living Clinics - BBC Radio Oxford
- Footprints Podcast - Bathscape
- Life After Prison podcast - Prison Radio Association
- Ocean Youth Radio
- Surviving Society Presents: Material Crimes
- United Against Knife Crime - BBC Radio Merseyside
- What The Pox? - Martin Joseph & Jamie Wareham for QueerAF
The Impact Award, supported by Wickes
- The Cruelty: A Child Unclaimed - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio Scotland and BBC Sounds
- The High Performance Podcast
- Hits Radio Pride: Faith, Sex & Me - Loftus Media
- In Dark Corners - BBC Scotland Productions for Radio 4
- Justice for Joseph - Hits Radio Manchester
- Looking for Esther - That Old Chestnut Productions and Big Light, for Spotify
- National Prison Radio
- Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World - Message Heard for The Kyiv Independent
- You, Me, and the Big C - BBC Radio 5 Live
Best Local Show, supported by RCS
- Footprints Podcast - Bathscape
- The Big Saturday Football Show - Forth 1 & The Hits Radio Network Scotland
- Gary Philipson - BBC Radio Tees
- The Graham Liver Breakfast Show - BBC Radio Lancashire
- Hits at Breakfast with JD and Roisin - Free Radio
- Justin Dealey - BBC Three Counties Radio
- Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie
- Ryecast - Real Life Stories From Rye
- The Very Best of Pete Price
The 2022 Special Award, following the death of HM The Queen
- All The Queen's Horses - talkSPORT
- BBC Network Radio
- BBC Newsbeat
- Daily News Reportage - James Bryant & Jonny Dymond, for BBC News
- The Final Journey of Queen Elizabeth II - Bauer Media Audio UK News Team
- FT Weekend - Financial Times
- The Second Elizabethan Age - Tortoise Media
- Sitrep: King Charles III, Commander in Chief - BFBS
- The Skewer: The Queen - unusual for BBC Radio 4
Community Station of the Year, supported by Markettiers
- Alfred - Shaftesbury
- Bro Radio - The Vale of Glamorgan
- Pride Radio - North East of England
- Shine Radio - Petersfield
- Vectis Radio - The Isle of Wight
- Wycombe Sound - High Wycombe
The John Myers Station of the Year, supported by News Broadcasting
- BBC Radio Merseyside
- BBC Radio Northampton
- BBC Radio Ulster
- Clyde 1
- Forth 1
- Wave 105
UK Station or Network of the Year, supported by Arqiva
- BBC Radio 1
- BBC Radio 4
- BBC Radio 6 Music
- Fun Kids
- talkSPORT
- Times Radio
Radio Times Moment of the Year
- Boris Johnson resigns, on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4
- Brenda Edwards sings to her late son Jamal on his birthday, on BBC Three Counties Radio
- England win EURO 2022, on talkSPORT
- Fun Kids’ Mission Transmission
- Kate Moss on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4
- Liz Truss BBC Local Radio interviews
- Nicky Campbell talks about childhood abuse, on BBC Radio 5 Live
- Scotland vs Ukraine show opener, on Clyde 1
- The Resignation of Nimco Ali, on Times Radio
- Tony Livesey won’t say goodbye to Dame Deborah James on BBC Radio 5 Live