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