BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016 Short List

Best Actress in an Audio Drama

• Eve Myles in Frank and the Bear
• Helen McCrory in The Pumpkin Eater
• Monica Dolan in Vincent in Brixton
• Sorcha Cusack in Juno and the Paycock
• Sue Johnston in Love in Recovery
• Susan Wokoma in Cuttin’ It

Best Scripted Comedy with a Live Audience

• Andrew O’Neill: Pharmacist Baffler, by Andrew O’Neill
• Dead Ringers, by Bill Dare, Jim Farthing, Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Lewis MacLeod
• John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, by John Finnemore
• Reluctant Persuaders Ep 3, by Chris Pye
• The Big Broadcast: Snow, by Neil Brand
• The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Macbeth Rebothered, by David Reed with Humphrey Ker

Best Online Only Audio Drama

• Dark Shadows: Bloodlust, by Big Finish
• Hood: King’s Command, by Spiteful Puppet Entertainment Ltd
• Survivors: The Hunted, by Big Finish
• The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes, by Big Finish
• The Kindness of Time, by Rosie Boulton
• The Omega Factor: The Old Gods, by Big Finish

Best Audio Drama (Adaptation)

• A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel, dramatized by Melissa Murray, producer Marc Beeby
• Between the Ears: Mr Rainbow, dramatized by Sebastian Baczkiewicz from Franz Kafka, producer Joby Waldman
• King Charles III, by Mike Bartlett, producer Toby Swift
• The Last Days of Troy, dramatized from Homer by Simon Armitage, producer Sue Roberts
• The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, dramatized by Lucy Catherine, producer Sasha Yevtushenko
• The Sea, the Sea, by Iris Murdoch, dramatized by Robin Brooks, producer Fiona McAlpine
• The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, adapted and produced by Pauline Harris

Best Actor in an Audio Drama

• Alfred Molina in A View from the Bridge
• Anton Lesser in Vampyre Man
• David Benson in Frankie Takes a Trip
• John Hurt in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
• Nico Mirallegro in Orpheus and Eurydice
• Roger Allam in Cabin Pressure – Finale (Zurich)
• Simon Russell Beale in Dead Girls Tell No Tales

Best Audio Drama (Original Single)

• Cuttin’ It, by Charlene James, producer Jessica Brown
• Dream of White Horses, by Linda Marshall Griffiths, producer Nadia Molinari
• Monster, by Tony Pitts, producer Sally Harrison
• Our Sea, by Ronan Bennett, producer Jenny Thompson
• The Churchill Barriers, by Emma Spurgin Hussey, producer David Hunter
• The Electrical Venus, by Julie Mayhew, producer Emma Harding
• The Len Continuum, by Peter Strickland, producer Polly Thomas

Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama

• Fight Club, sound by Wilfredo Acosta, producer Heather Larmour
• Fright Night: Ring, sound by Catherine Robinson, producer James Robinson
• Fugue State, sound by Julian Simpson and David Thomas, producer Karen Rose
• Good Omens, sound by Dirk Maggs, producer Heather Larmour
• Mayday Mayday, composer Aaron May, producer Becky Ripley
• Unmade Movies: Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness, sound by Wilfredo Acosta, producer Laurence Bowen

Best Scripted Comedy Drama

• Cabin Pressure – Finale (Zurich), by John Finnemore, producer David Tyler
• Dot, by Ed Harris, producer Jessica Brown
• In and Out of the Kitchen, by Justin Edwards, producer Sam Michell
• John Finnemore’s Double Acts – A Flock of Tigers, by John Finnemore, producer David Tyler
• The Dad Who Fell to Earth, by Toby Hadoke, producer Charlotte Riches
• The Man Who Wore Sanitary Pads, by Jon Sen, producer Sarah Bradshaw

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

• A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry, dramatized by Ayeesha Menon & Kewel Karim, producer John Dryden
• Children in Need: D for Dexter, by Amanda Whittington, producer Mary Ward-Lowery
• Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, dramatized by Dirk Maggs, producer Heather Larmour
• Home Front, by Katie Hims, Sarah Daniels, Shaun McKenna, producer Jessica Dromgoole
• Undercover Mumbai, by Ayeesha Menon, producer John Dryden
• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, dramatized by Timberlake Wertenbaker, producer Celia de Wolff

Best Supporting Actor or Actress in an Audio Drama

• Anton Lesser in The Master and Margarita
• Billy Kennedy in Home Front
• Jane Horrocks in Shakespeare’s Fire
• Mark Strong in Unmade Movies: Harold Pinter’s Victory
• Neil Maskell in Monster
• Susan Wokoma in Three Strong Women

Best Debut Performance In An Audio Drama

• Eleanor Tomlinson in Dead Girls Tell No Tales
• Farshid Rokey in The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War
• Karen Bartke in My Name Is…
• Melissa Benoist in A View from the Bridge
• Phoebe Fox in War and Peace
• Richard Hawley in Monster