ARIAS 2024 Nominations 

Best New Presenter

• Ali Ali - Prison Radio Association
• Anthony Delaney and Madeleine Pelling, After Dark - History Hit
• Caroline Steel - BBC Science Radio Unit
• LalalaLetMeExplain - It's Not You, It's Them...But It Might Be You - Sony Music Entertainment
• Mary Mandefield, Noted - Persephonica & The News Movement
• Rob Burrow - BBC Radio Leeds
• Sam & Danni - BBC Radio 1
• Shebahn Aherne - talkSPORT
• Tuftii - Shaun Keaveny's Community Garden Radio

Best New Radio Show, supported by Carver PR

• Best Medicine - BBC Radio 4
• Classical Connections with Alexis Ffrench - Apple Music Radio
• Takeover Tuesdays - Prison Radio Association
• Tim's Listening Party - Absolute Radio
• Uncharted with Hannah Fry - BBC Radio 4
• Unexpected Elements - BBC World Service

Best New Podcast

• It’s Not You, It’s Them... But It Might Be You with LalalaLetMeExplain - Sony Music Entertainment
• Near Death - BFBS
• Noted - Persephonica & The News Movement
• People Who Knew Me - Merman Television for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds
• Philippa Gregory's Normal Women - News UK Broadcasting
• Seven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio Leeds
• Springleaf - Mighty Bunny
• The Believe in people podcast - ReNew
• The Crossbow Killer - Overcoat Media for BBC Radio Wales

Best Speech Presenter

• Dan Snow - History Hit
• Hugo Rifkind - Times Radio
• Jack Boswell - Flaneur Productions
• Jane Garvey and Fi Glover - Times Radio
• Jeremy Vine - BBC Radio 2
• Josh Baker - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Marianna Spring - BBC Radio 4
• Matt Chorley - Times Radio
• Zak and Jules - Prison Radio Association

Best Speech Breakfast Show

• 5 Live Breakfast - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Good Morning Ulster - BBC Radio Ulster
• Matt Bailey at Breakfast - BBC Radio Newcastle
• Radio 4 Today - BBC Radio 4
• talkSPORT Breakfast - talkSPORT
• Times Radio Breakfast - Times Radio

Best News Coverage, supported by Radio News Hub

• I Am Not Nicholas - BBC Studios for Audible
• Israel-Hamas War Coverage - Times Radio
• Pod Save The UK - Reduced Listening / Crooked Media
• Russell Brand Investigation - Times Radio
• Shiny Bob: The Devil’s Advocate - BBC Scotland News
• Stories of Our Times - The Times and The Sunday Times
• The Shamima Begum Story: I’m Not A Monster Series 2 - BBC Radio 5 Live
• The Slow Newscast - Tortoise Media
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Sports Coverage

• Everton: Nothing Will Be The Same - BBC Studios
• Fight Disciples
• Fight Night - talkSPORT
• GameDay - talkSPORT
• Kick Off - talkSPORT
• Men In Blazers: Early Kick Off - Footwork Media
• Sportsworld - BBC World Service
• The Hillsborough Miracle - BBC Radio Sheffield
• The Upshot Podcast - Footwork Media

Best Coverage of an Event

• BBC Radio 2 In The Park 2023 - BBC Radio 2
• Clyde 1 – The First 50 Years - Clyde 1
• The Great North Run - Metro Radio
• The Isle of Wight Festival 2023 -
• Absolute Radio / Magic Radio / Hits Radio / Greatest Hits Radio
• The Ryder Cup - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Windrush 75 - Spiritland Productions for BBC Radio 2

The Comedy Award

• Forth at the Fringe - Forth 1
• Help I Sexted My Boss - Audio Always
• IM1: A NEW HOPE - LIVE! - Manx Radio
• Laura Smyth: I Don't Know What To Say - BBC Studios
• Springleaf - Mighty Bunny
• Tell Teresa - Moondog Productions for BBC Radio Ulster
• The Frank Skinner Show - Absolute Radio
• The Skewer - unusual for BBC Radio 4
• Where There's a Will There's a Wake - Sony Music

Best Music Breakfast Show, supported by MusicMaster/OnAir

• Boogie in the Morning - Forth 1
• Lauren Laverne - BBC Radio 6 Music
• Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo and Rosie - Pulse 1
• Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - BBC Radio 1
• The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - Virgin Radio UK
• The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show - BBC Radio 2

Best Music Entertainment Show, supported by PRS & PPL

• Craig Charles - BBC 6 Music
• Essential Classics - BBC Radio 3
• Free Flow - Prison Radio Association
• National Prison Radio’s Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
• Penny Smith - Scala Radio
• Scott Mills - BBC Radio 2

Best Specialist Music Show

• Classical Connections - Radio with Alexis Ffrench - Apple Music Radio
• Folk on Foot - Matthew Bannister
• Free Flow - Prison Radio Association
• Jamz Supernova on 6 - BBC 6 Music
• Romesh Ranganathan: For the Love of Hip Hop - Folded Wing for BBC Radio 2
• The Front Porch with Baylen Leonard – Absolute Radio Country
• Travelling Folk - BBC Radio Scotland

Best Music Special

• 21st Century Folk - 7digital Creative for BBC Radio 2
• Angeline Morrison in North Cornwall - Folk on Foot
• Change Your Tune - Podcart for The Bach Choir
• Download20 - Planet Rock
• How The UK Changed Hip Hop Forever - BBC Audio
• Legend, The Joni Mitchell Story - BBC Audio Wales and West of England
• The Beatles Legacy - Red & Blue - Greatest Hits Radio
• Vergil - Naked Productions for Audible
• Wham! Making it Big in China - Absolute Radio

Best Factual - Single Programme

• Children Locked Away: Britain's Modern Bedlam - Tortoise Media
• File on 4 - Jon Holmes, Generation Shame - BBC Radio 4
• File On 4 - Catastrophe at the Academy - BBC Radio 4
• Inside an Autistic Mind - Boffin Media for BBC News World Service
• Near Death: From Saving Lives to Taking my Own - BFBS
• Play On - How Football Returned to War-Torn Ukraine - talkSPORT
• Section 28: The Anti-Gay Law That Sparked a Movement, Betwixt the Sheets - History Hit
• The Last Voyage - National Trust Podcast
• The Only Gay in the Village - This is Distorted for Virgin Radio

Best Factual Series

• Heirs of Enslavement - Persephonica
• I Am Not Nicholas - BBC Studios for Audible
• Partygate: The Inside Story - ITV News
• Poison - The Times
• Stolen Hearts - Wondery
• Terri White: Finding Britain's Ghost Children - BBC Radio 5 Live
• The Shamima Begum Story: I’m Not A Monster Series 2 - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Time To Listen - Absolute Radio
• White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer - Whistledown Productions

Best Drama

• A Proposal For Resisting Darkness - Prison Radio Association
• Badger and the Blitz - ROXO for FunKids
• Below - Audible
• David Copperfield - Audible
• Hamlet Noir - Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3
• Sherlock & Co - Goalhanger
• The Sisters - Goldhawk Productions for Realm FM, in Association with Lights Out
• The Venice Conundrum - Allegra Productions for BBC Radio 4
• We Should Definitely Have More Dancing - BBC Audio Drama North

Best Audio Book or Reading

• Alan Partridge: Big Beacon - Orion Publishing
• Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go – Our Human Story. So Far - HarperCollins Publishers
• Finding Seaglass - Almost Tangible and National Theatre of Scotland for BBC Radio 4
• Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection - 750 mph for Audible Studios
• Open Throat - BBC Audio Wales and the West of England
• Rave New World - Bonnier Books UK
• Sisters Under the Rising Sun - Bonnier Books UK
• What We Fear Most by Dr Ben Cave - BBC Radio 4

Best Station Sound

• Absolute Radio
• BBC Asian Network
• BBC Radio 1
• BBC Radio 1Xtra
• Greatest Hits Radio - Ken Bruce
• talkSPORT

Best Commercial Partnership

• A Place To Call Home - Audio Always
• Change Your Tune - Podcart for The Bach Choir
• Detect Cancer Early - Be the Early Bird - Bauer Media and the Scottish Government
• Free Flow with Shannon Trust - Prison Radio Association
• The Dave Berry Breakfast Show with Wickes - Absolute Radio
• Today with tonies - Mags Creative

Best Local Show, supported by RCS

• Boogie in the Morning - Forth 1
• Bowie @ Breakfast - Clyde 1
• Footprints Podcast - Bathscape
• Game Night - BBC Radio Leicester
• Off the Beaten Jack - Flaneur Productions
• Pulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie - Pulse 1
• Real life stories from Rye - Ryecast
• The Graham Liver Breakfast Show - BBC Radio Lancashire
• We Are Notts - BBC Radio Nottingham

The Impact Award

• Cash for Kids Day: Cash for Kids - Bauer Media
• Different: Nicky Campbell - Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Football Untold - Bauer Media Audio
• Navigating Now...from the Duke of Edinburgh's Award - Mags Creative
• Seven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio Leeds
• Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson Story - The Sunday Times and Stories of our Times
• Stoma Swimmer - BBC Radio Newcastle
• The HIV Podcast - Thames Valley Positive Support
• The Second Victim: Daisy's Story - RAW for Audible

The Creative Innovation Award, supported by All In Media/Xperi

• Dan Snow’s Story of England - History Hit
• Hamlet Noir - Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3
• My Dream Dinner Party - Series 5 - Tuning Fork for BBC Radio 4
• National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio Association
• Seven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio Leeds
• Takeover Tuesdays - Prison Radio Association
• The Hits Radio Breakfast Show with AI Fleur East, James & Matt - Hits Radio
• The Smart 7 - Daft Doris
• A Place To Call Home - Audio Always

The Grassroots Award, supported by BBC Sounds

• 300 Seconds Podcast - Ocean Youth Radio
• Class Divide Podcast
• Kids Live at 5 - Cheshire's Mix56
• Life After Prison - Prison Radio Association
• Make a Blanket and Set a World Record - BBC Radio Derby
• Our Earth Week - Community Radio Environment Network
• Three Ways to Save a Life - BBC Radio Manchester
• Transmission Roundhouse Podcast Academy
• Windrush 75 - BBC Radio Sheffield

Community Station of The Year

• ALL FM
• Bro Radio
• Radio Platfform
• RNIB Connect Radio
• Somer Valley FM
• Vectis Radio

The John Meyers Station of the Year Award, supported by News Broadcasting

• BBC Radio Leeds
• BBC Radio Manchester
• Clyde 1
• Forth 1
• BBC Radio Ulster
• Reform Radio

UK Station or Network of the Year, supported by Arqiva

• BBC Asian Network
• BBC Radio 3
• BBC Radio 6 Music
• Fun Kids
• Kiss UK
• talkSPORT

Radio Times Moment of the Year - voted by the public

• "Have you ever told a lie?" - BBC Radio Nottingham
• John Robins reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery - BBC Radio 5 Live
• Adrian Edmondson remembers Rik Mayall - BBC Radio 4
• Isabel Oakeshott's Hancock hang-up - Times Radio
• Jennie Longdon reveals the impact OCD has on her daily life - Absolute Radio
• Ken Bruce joins Greatest Hits Radio - Greatest Hits Radio
• Letters to the Lionesses - talkSPORT
• Luton Town are promoted to the Premier League - BBC 3 Counties
• Nicky Campbell speaks to the daughter of his abuser - BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• Rob Burrow carried over the finish line - BBC Radio Leeds