ARIAS 2025 Winners

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After a fabulous evening of glitz and glamour we're delighted to share with you the 2025 ARIAS winners.  Huge congratulations to all our winners and nominees!

UK Radio Station or Radio Network of the Year 2025
Supported by Arqiva

  • GOLD: BBC Radio 3
  • SILVER: BBC Radio 5 Live
  • BRONZE: Greatest Hits Radio
  • BBC Asian Network
  • Fun Kids
  • talkSPORT

Radio Times Moment of the Year 2025

  • GOLD: Coldplay go Orange for Luton – BBC Three Counties Radio
  • SILVER: A listener unexpectedly calls Cristo Foufas’ final show to thank him for saving his life – TALK
  • BRONZE: Johnnie Walker’s Final Show on Sounds of the 70’s – Listen for BBC Radio 2
  • BBC Radio 4’s Today: Mishal Husain and James Cleverly – BBC News
  • Dan Noble speaks out about the far-right riots across the UK – Absolute Radio
  • Frank off the Radio – The Frank Skinner Project, Avalon
  • ‘I want my mum to die’ – Stuart George on BBC Radio Stoke
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene blames media for Trump assassination attempt – Times Radio
  • Radio 4’s PM - Laura Trott Interview – BBC Radio 4
  • Sunday Love Songs Remembering Steve Wright – BBC Radio 2

Judges' Award

  • talkSPORT

Best Speech Breakfast Radio Show Award 2025
Supported by Radio News Hub

  • GOLD: The Kevin Duala Breakfast Show – BBC Radio Merseyside
  • SILVER: Today – BBC Radio 4
  • BRONZE: Times Radio Breakfast – Times Radio
  • 5 Live Breakfast – BBC Radio 5 Live
  • The Graham Liver Breakfast Show – BBC Radio Lancashire
  • talkSPORT Breakfast – talkSPORT
Best Speech Entertainment Award 2025
Supported by Carver PR

●      GOLD: Josie Long – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      SILVER:  British Scandal – Wondery & Samizdat Audio
●      BRONZE:  Help I Sexted My Boss – Audio Always
●      Believe In People: Addiction, Recovery & Stigma – ReNew
●      Elis James and John Robins – Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
●      Jon Holmes Says The C-Word – Unusual Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      The Louis Theroux Podcast – Mindhouse Productions
●      Matt Chorley – BBC Radio 5 Live
●      Overnights With Martin Kelner – talkSPORT
Best Comedy Award 2025

●      GOLD:  The Skewer – Unusual Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      SILVER:  Green Wing: Resuscitated – Novel for Audible
●      BRONZE:  Help I Sexted My Boss – Audio Always
●      Christmas Dinner with Kurupt FM – Prison Radio Association
●      IM1: 60 Years and Counting, Sadly… – Manx Radio
●      Mark Steel’s in Town – BBC Radio 4
●      The Menagerie – Radio M29
●      Time of The Week – DLT Entertainment for BBC Radio 4
●      Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake – Sony Music Entertainment
Best Factual Series Award 2025

●      GOLD:  Grenfell: Building a Disaster – BBC Radio 4
●      SILVER:  County Lines – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      BRONZE:  The Trapped – ITN / ITV News
●      Band Aid at 40 – Gimme Sugar Productions for Virgin Radio
●      Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
●      Ken Bruce on Drums – Jazz FM
●      Kill List – Novel and Wondery
●      The Pitcairn Trial – Audio Always
●      The Story of No. 1: Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – 100 Best Albums Radio, Apple Music
Best News or Current Affairs Award 2025
Supported by markettiers

●      GOLD:  Southport – BBC Radio Merseyside
●      SILVER:  The 2024 ‘Genny Lex’ – KISS
●      BRONZE:  The Boys Are Not Alright – Audio Always for BBC Radio 4
●      90 Seconds to Midnight – Daily Mail
●      Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump – Times Radio
●      Electoral Dysfunction – Sky News
●      Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
●      Pod Save The UK – Reduced Listening and Crooked Media
●      Sitrep – BFBS

Best Event Coverage Award 2025

  • GOLD: BBC Proms 2024 – BBC Radio 3
  • SILVER: Coldplay go Orange for Luton – BBC Three Counties Radio
  • BRONZE: Superscoreboard at EURO 2024 – Clyde 1
  • Coverage of the Paralympics – RNIB Connect Radio
  • Forest are Magic – Forest Focus
  • Isle of Man TT Races: The TT Podcast – Audio Always
  • Magic Celebrates Diwali – Magic Radio
  • Radio 1’s Pedal Power for Red Nose Day – BBC Radio 1
  • Sycamore Gap: One Year On – National Trust

Best Commercial Partnership Award 2025

  • GOLD: Dead River – Audio Always for Pogust Goodhead
  • SILVER: Empowering Young Lives – KISS and KFC
  • BRONZE: The Mid.Point: Sweaty Betty Special – Spiritland Productions
  • Fun Kids Teacher of the Year with Collection Pot – Fun Kids
  • Hold or Fold with GambleAware – Prison Radio Association
  • Scottish Island Adventures – The Big Light and Caledonian MacBrayne

The Creative or Technical Innovation Award 2025
Supported by Xperi/AIM

  • GOLD: The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag – Prison Radio Association for BBC Radio 4
  • SILVER: Lowlines – Social Broadcasts and Scenery Studios
  • BRONZE: Fun Kids Space Station – Fun Kids
  • 6 Music’s Way with Words – Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Fun Kids Time Machine – Fun Kids
  • The Gossip Gays: Who Killed Danny Beard? – Audio Always
  • Help I Sexted My Boss, in cinemas – Audio Always
  • OUTCAST UK with Graeme Smith – 7th Planet for Virgin Radio Pride
  • Sleep Tracks – Peanut & Crumb for BBC Radio 3 Unwind

John Myers Local Radio Station of the Year 2025
Supported by RCS

  • GOLD: Forth 1
  • SILVER: BBC Radio Cornwall
  • BRONZE: BBC Radio Ulster
  • BBC Radio Derby
  • Clyde 1
  • Portsmouth’s Express FM
UK Audio Brand of the Year 2025

●      GOLD:  Goalhanger
●      SILVER:  Rayo – Bauer Media Audio UK
●      BRONZE: BBC Sounds
●      Apple Music Radio
●      Tortoise Media
●      Yoto

Special Recognition Award 2025

  • Andy Ashton - Greatest Hits Radio

Best New Presenter Award 2025
Supported by News Broadcasting

●      GOLD: Scout Tzofiya Bolton – Prison Radio Association
●      SILVER:  May Robson – BBC Sounds Audio Lab
●      BRONZE:  Bronwen Lewis – BBC Radio Wales
●      Beth Wallace – Forth 1
●      Chance Litchfield – Fix Radio
●      Emma Nagouse – Muses: An Ampersand Podcast
●      Helen Pidd – The Guardian
●      Niall Breslin - The Madman’s Hotel, Chalk & Blade and Big Face Productions for Audible
●      Phoebe McIndoe – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4

 Best Music Breakfast Radio Show Award 2025

●      GOLD:  Boogie in the Morning – Forth 1
●      SILVER: The Bald Builders Breakfast – Fix Radio
●      BRONZE: Bowie@Breakfast – Clyde 1
●      Breakfast – BBC Radio 3
●      Breakfast with Greg James – BBC Radio 1
●      Breakfast with Nadia Jae – BBC Radio 1Xtra
Best Music Entertainment Award 2025
Supported by PPL & PRS For Music

●      GOLD: Barry Island Discs: Gavin & Stacey’s Big Songs              Send Off – Listen for BBC Radio Wales
●      SILVER: Ruthie Henshall Sees Dead People – Magic Radio
●      BRONZE:  Scott Mills – BBC Radio 2
●      The Cavern Podcast – The Cavern Club
●      Earlier… with Jools Holland – BBC Radio 3
●      Gemma Atkinson & Mike Toolan – Hits Radio
●      Haroon Rashid – BBC Asian Network
●      Hometime with Bush and Richie – Absolute Radio
●      The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show – Greatest Hits Radio
Best Music Award  2025 

●      GOLD:  Classical Connections Radio with Alexis Ffrench – Apple Music Radio
●      SILVER:  Radio 1’s Dance Party with Danny Howard – BBC Radio 1
●      BRONZE:  Free Flow – Prison Radio Association
●      Annie Nightingale: A Life in Music – We Are Grape for BBC Radio 1
●      The Dance Music Archive with Andi Durrant – This is Distorted for KISSTORY
●      The Eras Podcast, hosted by Abbie McCarthy – Good Karma
●      Folk on Foot – Matthew Bannister
●      Indie Forever – We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music
●      Phil Taggart’s ChillDaBeats – Slack Panda Productions
Best Factual Single Episode Award 2025

●      GOLD:  Our Whole Life is a Secret – BBC Radio 4
●      SILVER:  Degraded by Deepfakes: File on 4 Investigates – BBC Radio 4
●      BRONZE:  Deep Hidden Meaning: will.i.am – Apple Music Radio
●      Between the Ears: Henry Mancini – BBC Radio 3
●      Black Box – The Guardian
●      The Daily T: The Grenfell inquiry that ‘delayed justice’ – The Telegraph
●      Esther Ghey & Jaxon Feeley: Reclaiming Influence – Virgin Radio Pridecast
●      NATO75: An Alliance Rescue – BFBS
●      The Weekend Intelligence: A Portrait of the Proud Boys – The Economist
Best Drama or Fiction Award 2025
Supported by Audible

 ●      GOLD:  One Hundred and Fifty Days – BBC Audio Scotland for BBC Radio 4
●      SILVER: 1984 – Granny Eats Wolf for Audible
●      BRONZE:  Life & Time – BBC Radio 4
●      Central Intelligence – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Poirot Mystery – Hat Trick for Audible
●      Ruthie Henshall Sees Dead People – Magic Radio
●      The Skies Are Watching – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
●      UNSINKABLE – Datura Studios and North Atlantic Ridge in association with B7 Media and AudioMarvels
●      Zeroes – BBC Studios Audio for Audible

Best Sports Award 2025

  • GOLD: Premier League Sunday – BBC Radio 5 Live
  • SILVER: White & Jordan – talkSPORT
  • BRONZE: Men in Blazers: Early Kick Off – Men in Blazers and Footwork Media for Wondery
  • The Big Scottish Football Show – Forth 1
  • From Extinction to Promotion – BBC Radio Derby Sport
  • Gameday – talkSPORT
  • Guardian Football Weekly – The Guardian
  • P1 with Matt & Tommy – Stak
  • Test Match Special – BBC Radio 5 Live

Best Sonic Branding Award 2025

  • GOLD: Fix Radio
  • SILVER: Greatest Hits Radio 60s
  • BRONZE: BBC Radio 2
  • BBC Radio 1
  • BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Clyde 1 Superscoreboard

The Social Impact Award 2025
Supported by BBC Sounds

  • GOLD: Assume Nothing – Femicide: Eight Steps to Stop a Murder – BBC Radio Ulster
  • SILVER: The Madman’s Hotel – Chalk & Blade and Big Face Productions for Audible
  • BRONZE: Clare’s Law: A Decade of Saving Lives – Hits Radio
  • Black History Month: Raising The Next Generation – Hits Radio
  • The Culture Colonel – BFBS
  • Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Radio 4
  • Life After Prison – Prison Radio Association
  • The Quiet Place – BBC Radio 5 Live
  • The Quilt – Aunt Nell