💥The Radio Academy announces nominees for ARIAS 2024

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The 211 nominees for the 2024 ARIAS, which will take place on Tuesday, May 7, at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, have been revealed by the Radio Academy. The UK's premier audio and radio awards, the Radio Academy ARIAS (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) honour exceptional shows and the creative teams that bring them to life. Every year, the ARIAS are held to honour the global influence and significance of the burgeoning audio industry to audiences. This year's new hosts are award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who hosts BBC Radio 2's For The Love and Hip Hop show, and broadcaster Alice Levine, who co-hosts the popular podcasts My Dad Wrote A Porno and British Scandal. Sam Thompson, the host of the Staying Relevant podcast and the winner of ITV's I'm A Celebrity 2023, will be featured in backstage interviews by the ARIAS on social media for the first time.

This year at the ARIAS there are 27 awards to be won, including Best New Presenter, Best Music Breakfast Show, Best New Podcast and the popular Moment of the Year Award voted by the public in partnership with the Radio Times, which will be open from Wednesday 27th March. Details on how to vote can be found at radioacademy.org.2024 Nominees range from Times Radio's Jane Garvey and Fi Glover for Best Speech Presenter, Pod Save the UK hosted by Nish Kumar and Coco Khan for Best News Coverage, Kathy Burke's Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast for The Comedy Award, BBC 6 Music's Jamz Supernova for Best Specialist Music Show, Life After Prison with Zak and Jules for The Grassroots Award, BBC Asian Network for UK station or Network of the Year, BBC Radio Leeds Rob Burrow for Best New Presenter and Ken Bruce joins Greatest Hits Radio for Radio Times Moment of the Year.Created by The Radio Academy, a charity dedicated to supporting people in audio and radio, The ARIAS is an inspiring evening that is committed to shining a light on audio's thriving community.Tickets for The ARIAS go on sale on Wednesday 27th March at radioacademy.org

Full List of Nominees

Best New PresenterAli Ali - Prison Radio AssociationAnthony Delaney and Madeleine Pelling, After Dark - History HitCaroline Steel - BBCLalalaLetMeExplain - It's Not You, It's Them...But It Might Be You - Sony Music EntertainmentMary Mandefield, Noted - Persephonica & The News MovementRob Burrow - BBC Radio LeedsSam & Danni - BBC Radio 1Shebahn Aherne - talkSPORTTuftii - Shaun Keaveny's Community Garden RadioBest New Radio ShowBest Medicine - BBC Radio 4Classical Connections with Alexis Ffrench - Apple Music RadioTakeover Tuesdays - Prison Radio AssociationTim's Listening Party - Absolute RadioUncharted with Hannah Fry - BBC Radio 4Unexpected Elements - BBC World ServiceBest New PodcastIt’s Not You, It’s Them... But It Might Be You with LalalaLetMeExplain - Sony Music EntertainmentNear Death - BFBSNoted - Persephonica & The News MovementPeople Who Knew Me - Merman Television for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC SoundsPhilippa Gregory's Normal Women - News UK BroadcastingSeven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio LeedsSpringleaf - Mighty BunnyThe Believe in People podcast - ReNewThe Crossbow Killer - Overcoat Media for BBC Radio WalesBest Speech PresenterDan Snow - History HitHugo Rifkind - Times RadioJack Boswell - Flanuer ProductionsJane Garvey and Fi Glover - Times RadioJeremy Vine - BBC Radio 2Josh Baker - BBC Radio 5 LiveMarianna Spring - BBC Radio 4Matt Chorley - Times RadioZak and Jules: Life After Prison - Prison Radio AssociationBest Speech Breakfast Show5 Live Breakfast - BBC Radio 5 LiveGood Morning Ulster - BBC Radio UlsterMatt Bailey at Breakfast - BBC Radio NewcastleRadio 4 Today - BBC Radio 4talkSPORT Breakfast - talkSPORTTimes Radio Breakfast - Times RadioBest News CoverageI Am Not Nicholas - BBC StudiosIsrael-Hamas War Coverage - Times RadioPod Save the UK - Reduced Listening / Crooked MediaRussell Brand Investigation - Times RadioShiny Bob: The Devil’s Advocate - BBC Scotland NewsStories of Our Times - The Times and The Sunday TimesThe Shamima Begum Story: I’m Not A Monster Series 2 - BBC Radio 5 LiveThe Slow Newscast - Tortoise MediaToday in Focus - The GuardianBest Sports CoverageEverton: Nothing Will Be The Same - BBC StudiosFight DisciplesFight Night - talkSPORTGameDay - talkSPORTKick Off - talkSPORTMen In Blazers: Early Kick Off - Footwork MediaSportsworld - BBC World ServiceThe Hillsborough Miracle - BBC Radio SheffieldThe Upshot Podcast - Footwork MediaBest Coverage of an Event BBC Radio 2 In The Park 2023 - BBC Radio 2Clyde 1 – The First 50 Years - Clyde 1The Great North Run - Metro RadioThe Isle of Wight Festival 2023 - Absolute Radio / Magic Radio / Hits Radio / Greatest Hits RadioThe Ryder Cup - BBC Radio 5 LiveWindrush 75 - Spiritland Productions for BBC Radio 2The Comedy AwardForth at the Fringe - Forth 1Help I Sexted My Boss - Audio AlwaysIM1: A NEW HOPE - LIVE! - Manx RadioLaura Smyth: I Don't Know What To Say - BBC StudiosSpringleaf - Mighty BunnyTell Teresa - Moondog Productions for BBC Radio UlsterThe Frank Skinner Show - Absolute RadioThe Skewer - unusual for BBC Radio 4 Where There's a Will, There's a Wake - Sony MusicBest Music Breakfast ShowBoogie in the Morning - Forth 1Lauren Laverne - BBC Radio 6 MusicPulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo and Rosie - Pulse 1Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - BBC Radio 1The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - Virgin Radio UKThe Zoe Ball Breakfast Show - BBC Radio 2Best Music Entertainment ShowCraig Charles - BBC 6 MusicEssential Classics - BBC Radio 3Free Flow - Prison Radio AssociationNational Prison Radio’s Rock Show - Prison Radio AssociationPenny Smith - Scala RadioScott Mills - BBC Radio 2Best Specialist Music ShowClassical Connections Radio with Alexis French - Apple Music RadioFolk on FootFree Flow - Prison Radio AssociationJamz Supernova on 6 - BBC 6 MusicRomesh Ranganathan: For the Love of Hip Hop - BBC Radio 2The Front Porch - Absolute RadioTravelling Folk - BBC Radio ScotlandBest Music Special21st Century Folk - 7digital Creative for BBC Radio 2Angeline Morrison in North Cornwall - Folk on FootChange Your Tune - Podcart for The Bach ChoirDownload20 - Planet RockHow The UK Changed Hip Hop Forever - BBC AudioLegend, The Joni Mitchell Story - BBC Audio Wales and West of EnglandThe Beatles Legacy - Red & Blue - Greatest Hits RadioVergil - Naked Productions for AudibleWham! Making it Big in China - Absolute RadioBest Factual – Single ProgrammeChildren Locked Away: Britain's Modern Bedlam - Tortoise MediaFile on 4 - Jon Holmes, Generation Shame - BBC Radio 4File On 4 - Catastrophe at the Academy - BBC Radio 4Inside an Autistic Mind - Boffin Media for BBC News World ServiceNear Death: From Saving Lives to Taking my Own - BFBSPlay On - How Football Returned to War-Torn Ukraine - talkSPORTSection 28: The Anti-Gay Law That Sparked a Movement, Betwixt the Sheets - History HitThe Last Voyage - National Trust PodcastThe Only Gay in the Village - This is Distorted for Virgin RadioBest Factual – SeriesHeirs of Enslavement - PersephonicaI Am Not Nicholas - BBC StudiosPartygate: The Inside Story - ITV NewsPoison - The TimesStolen Hearts - WonderyTerri White: Finding Britain's Ghost Children - BBC Radio 5 LiveThe Shamima Begum Story: I’m Not A Monster Series 2 - BBC Radio 5 LiveTime To Listen - Absolute RadioWhite Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer - Whistledown ProductionsBest DramaA Proposal For Resisting Darkness - Prison Radio AssociationBadger and the Blitz - ROXO for FunKidsBelow - AudibleDavid Copperfield - AudibleHamlet Noir - Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3Sherlock & Co - GoalhangerThe Sisters - Goldhawk Productions for Realm FM, in Association with Lights OutThe Venice Conundrum - Allegra Productions for BBC Radio 4We Should Definitely Have More Dancing - BBC Audio Drama NorthBest Audiobook or ReadingAlan Partridge: Big Beacon - Orion PublishingBegin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go – Our Human Story. So Far. - HarperCollins PublishersFinding Seaglass - Almost Tangible and National Theatre of Scotland for BBC Radio 4Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection - 750 mph for Audible StudiosOpen Throat - BBC Audio Wales and the West of EnglandRave New World - Bonnier Books UKSisters Under the Rising Sun - Bonnier Books UKWhat We Fear Most by Dr Ben Cave - BBC Radio 4Best Station SoundAbsolute RadioBBC Asian NetworkBBC Radio 1BBC Radio 1XtraGreatest Hits Radio - Ken BrucetalkSPORTBest Commercial PartnershipA Place To Call Home - Audio AlwaysChange Your Tune - Podcart for The Bach ChoirDetect Cancer Early - Be the Early Bird - Bauer Media and the Scottish GovernmentFree Flow with Shannon Trust - Prison Radio AssociationThe Dave Berry Breakfast Show with Wickes - Absolute RadioToday with tonies - Mags CreativeBest Local ShowBoogie in the Morning - Forth 1Bowie @ Breakfast - Clyde 1Footprints Podcast - BathscapeGame Night - BBC Radio LeicesterOff the Beaten Jack - Flaneur ProductionsPulse 1 Breakfast with Mylo & Rosie - Pulse 1Real life stories from Rye - RyecastThe Graham Liver Breakfast Show - BBC Radio LancashireWe Are Notts - BBC Radio NottinghamThe Impact AwardCash for Kids Day: Cash for Kids - Bauer MediaDifferent: Nicky Campbell - Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 LiveFootball Untold - Bauer Media AudioNavigating How...from the Duke of Edinburgh's Award - Mags CreativeSeven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio LeedsSeventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson Story - The Sunday Times and Stories of our TimesStoma Swimmer - BBC Radio NewcastleThe HIV Podcast - Thames Valley Positive SupportThe Second Victim: Daisy's Story - RAW for AudibleThe Creative Innovation AwardDan Snow’s Story of England - History HitHamlet Noir - Almost Tangible for BBC Radio 3My Dream Dinner Party - Series 5 - Tuning Fork for BBC Radio 4National Prison Radio's Rock Show - Prison Radio AssociationSeven: Rob Burrow - BBC Radio LeedsTakeover Tuesdays - Prison Radio AssociationThe Hits Radio Breakfast Show with AI Fleur East, James & Matt - Hits RadioThe Smart 7 - Daft DorisA Place To Call Home - Audio AlwaysThe Grassroots Award300 Seconds Podcast - Ocean Youth RadioClass Divide PodcastKids Live at 5 - Cheshire's Mix56Life After Prison - Prison Radio AssociationMake a Blanket and Set a World Record - BBC Radio DerbyOur Earth Week - Community Radio EnvironmentThree Ways to Save a Life - BBC Radio ManchesterTransmission Roundhouse Podcast AcademyWindrush 75 - BBC Radio SheffieldCommunity Station of the YearALL FMBro Radio Radio PlatfformRNIB Connect RadioSomer Valley FMVectis RadioThe John Myers Award Station of the Year AwardBBC Radio LeedsBBC Radio ManchesterClyde 1Forth 1BBC Radio UlsterReform RadioUK Station or Network of the YearBBC Asian NetworkBBC Radio 3BBC Radio 6 MusicFun KidsKiss UKtalkSPORTRadio Times Moment of the Year (voted by the public)"Have you ever told a lie?" - BBC Radio NottinghamJohn Robins reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery - BBC Radio 5 LiveAdrian Edmondson remembers Rik Mayall - BBC Radio 4Isabel Oakeshott's Hancock hang-up - Times RadioJennie Longdon reveals the impact OCD has on her daily life - Absolute RadioKen Bruce joins Greatest Hits Radio - Greatest Hits RadioLetters to the Lionesses - talkSPORTLuton Town are promoted to the Premier League - BBC 3 CountiesNicky Campbell speaks to the daughter of his abuser - BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC SoundsRob Burrow carried over the finish line - BBC Radio Leeds

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