BBC Audio Awards 2024 nominees
- Scripted nominees: Call Jonathan Pie, Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Mockery Manor, She Stoops To Conquer, Where To, Mate?
- Stand-up nominees: Daliso Chaponda, Janey Godley, Maisie Adam, Olga Koch, Rob Newman, Sarah Keyworth
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The shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024 has been revealed. The nominations in the comedy categories are as follows:
Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama
By Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio
By Kat Sadler and Cameron Loxdale, producer Gwyn Rhys Davies, BBC Studios Audio
Michael Spicer: Before Next Door
By Michael Spicer, producer Matt Tiller, Starstruck Media
Mockery Manor
A podcast by Lindsay Sharman, producer Laurence Owen, Long Cat Media
By Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O'Shaughnessy, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales
Devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
Best Stand Up Comedy
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere
By Daliso Chaponda, additional material Meryl O'Rourke, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
By Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions
Maisie Adam: The Beautiful Game
By Maisie Adam, producer Georgia Keating, BBC Studios Audio
By Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios Audio
By Rob Newman, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Sarah Keyworth: Are You A Boy Or A Girl
By Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio
Elsewhere in the nominations Tom Walker is nominated for Best Actor for Call Jonathan Pie and Mark Heap is up for Best Supporting Performance for Kafka's Dick. Meanwhile Trust and Eat And Run are amongst the nominations in the Best Original Series or Serial category. A full list of nominations across all categories can be seen via the BBC website
The winners will be announced on Sunday 24 March 2024 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House in London.
The BBC says: "2023 marked the centenary year for audio/radio drama at the BBC. For 100 years of this unique genre, audio drama and comedy have provided enjoyment, diversion, illumination, insight and escape for listeners, evolving in approach and style as audio practitioners have responded to new ideas and technology with ingenuity, imagination and inspiration. These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers and all who work in this vibrant art-form."