Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Graeme Garden
- Best Stand Up: Sarah Keyworth - Are You A Boy Or A Girl?; Best Sitcom: Where To, Mate?
- Best Original Series: Trust; Best Supporting Performance: Mark Heap; Tinniswood Award: Cracking
Graeme Garden was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024.
The star of The Goodies has been performing on Radio 4 since the 1960s, starting with I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and, most notably, the long running I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
He was presented with the award at the ceremony last night (Sunday 24th March) at the BBC Radio Theatre by writer and performer Meera Syal and BBC executive Charlotte Moore.
Elsewhere in the awards Sarah Keyworth - Are You A Boy Or A Girl? won in the Best Stand Up Comedy category, with a commendation going to Janey Godley: The C Bomb.
The Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama category was won by Where To, Mate?, the semi-improvised comedy about two taxi drivers devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter and Jason Wingard.
Trust,the comedy drama about an inner city academy school in Salford written by Jonathan Hall, won in the Best Original Series or Serial shortlist.
Mark Heap picked up the Best Supporting Performance trophy for his performance in Kafka's Dick and the Tinniswood Award 2024 went to Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones.
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."
A full list of winners across all categories can be seen via the BBC website