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