The finalists for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2022 have been revealed. They include several productions and performances of genre interest.

Best Actor

• Toby Jones, Grief is the Thing with Feathers – A family has lost its mother, and black-feathered Crow – “therapist, healer, feathered Mary Poppins – promises to stay until they no longer need him.”
• Christopher Eccleston, Murmuration — a non-sff production, however, it is about a man who hears voices. (And Eccleston did used to play Doctor Who!)

Best Supporting Performance

• Jenny Bede, The Hauntening (ghosts)
• Joanne Whalley, Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (horror)

Best Original Single Drama

• The Goldilocks Zone by Tanika Gupta — Astrophysicist Sofia Khaled’s discovery of a potentially habitable planet opens up painful memories for her but a startling new truth for humanity.

Best Adaptation

• The Brummie Iliad by Homer, adapted by Roderick Smith — The Birmingham accent is not normally associated with the classical world’s epic poetry, but its hard-edged, cynical and wistful qualities turn out to be a perfect vehicle for a story of blood-thirsty warriors, long-suffering women and meddling Gods.
• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Ayeesha Menon

Best Original Series or Serial

• London Particular by Nick Perry — Investigating the disappearance of her brother, Alice uncovers powerful secrets in the forgotten corners of London. Time travelling drama. 

Best European Drama

• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, adapted and produced by Ilinca Stih

Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama

• Tracks: Abyss by Matthew Broughton – fifth season, description hints it might have fantastic elements

The winners will be announced March 20.

The complete list of finalists follows the jump.

Best Actor

• Edmund Davies, The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, director Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama North
• Christopher Eccleston, Murmuration, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland
• Toby Jones, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
• Robert Lindsay, Christmas by the Lake, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
• Jamie Parker, Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein, director Abigail le Fleming, BBC Audio Drama London
• Simon Russell Beale, Folk, director Sue Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North
• Giles Terera, The Meaning of Zong, director Tom Morris, Jonx Productions

Best Actress

• Chizzy Akudolu, Camberwell Green, director Celia de Wolff, Pier Productions
• Juliet Aubrey, Dead Weather, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
• Jasmine Hyde, Little Blue Lines, director Gemma Jenkins, BBC Audio Drama London
• Amanda Lawrence, Folk, director Sue Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North
• Diana Quick, Talk to Me Ayn Rand, director Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Bristol
• Sian Reese Williams, Safe From Harm, director Helen Perry, BBC Cymru Wales
• Marlene Sidaway, Silva Lining’s Care Plan, director Elspeth Penny, 2BU Productions Ltd

Best Supporting Performance

• Jenny Bede, The Hauntening, director David Tyler, Pozzitive
• Paul Chahidi, Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein, director Abigail le Fleming, BBC Audio Drama London
• Cyril Nri, Angst!, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
• Tracy-Ann Oberman, Talk to Me Ayn Rand, director Mary Ward-Lowery, BBC Bristol
• Claire Price, Dead Weather, director Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
• Joanne Whalley, Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls, director Rosalind Ayres, Jarvis & Ayres Productions

The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance

• Ray Castleton, Cornerstone, director Gemma Jenkins, BBC Audio Drama London
• Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan & Iain de Caestecker, The System, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland
• Matthew Malone, Two Thieves, director Hugh Hick, Newstalk
• Saran Morgan, Release, director John Norton, BBC Cymru Wales
• Elena Saurel, The Effect, director Andrew Mark Sewell, B7 Media
• Jacoba Williams, Precious Little Thing, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Talawa / feral inc

Best Original Single Drama

• Dead Weather by Hattie Naylor, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
• Life is a Radio in the Dark by Will Eno, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
• Safe From Harm by Rhiannon Boyle, producer Helen Perry, BBC Cymru Wales
• That Dinner of 67 by Tracy-Ann Oberman, producer Liz Anstee, CPL Productions
• The Goldilocks Zone by Tanika Gupta, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
• You & Me by Dan Rebellato, producers Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions

Best Adaptation

• The Brummie Iliad by Homer, adapted by Roderick Smith, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions
• Folk by Nell Leyshon, producer Sue Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North
• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Ayeesha Menon, producers Nadir Khan & Ayeesha Menon, Goldhawk Productions
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, adapted by Robin Brooks, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions
• Mr Waring of the BBC, adapted from various sources by Freddie Phillips, producer Gemma Jenkins, BBC Audio Drama London
• The Rainbow by DH Lawrence, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Original Series or Serial

• Camberwell Green by Nicola Baldwin, producer Celia de Wolff, Pier Productions
• Keeping the Wolf Out by Philip Palmer, producer Toby Swift, BBC Audio Drama London
• Life Lines by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
• London Particular by Nick Perry, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London
• The System by Ben Lewis, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland
• Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Scripted Comedy (Longform)

• Bridget Christie: Mortal by Bridget Christie, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios
• Charles Paris: a Deadly Habit by Jeremy Front, from the novels of Simon Brett, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
• God Squad by Jack Chisnall and Barney Fishwick, producer David Tyler, Pozzitive
• The Musical Life of… Betsi Cadwaladr by Dan Kiss and Dave Cribb, producers Tom Price and Dave Cribb, Rubber Chicken
• Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin (co-writer) with additional material by Rajiv Karia, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick, producer Liz Anstee, CPL Productions

Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch Show)

• The Damien Slash Mixtape by Daniel Barker, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios
• Drop the Dead Panda by Evelyn Mok, Ken Cheng, Amille Jampa-Ngoen, Vivian Xie, Joanne Lao, Bruce Tang, producer Sam Michell, BBC Studios
• Gemma Arrowsmith: Emergency Broadcast by Gemma Arrowsmith, producer Victoria Lloyd, BBC Studios
• Newsjack, Series 24 by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and members of the Great British public, producers Gwyn Rhys-Davies and Hayley Sterling, BBC Studios
• The Skewer by creator and producer Jon Holmes with members of the audience, Unusual Productions
• Sound Heap by John-Luke Roberts, with Cariad Lloyd, Charlie George, Deborah Frances-White, Gareth Gwynn, Katherine Parkinson, Katy Brand, Ken Cheng, Kieran Hodgson, Paddy Gervers, Ruth Bratt, Saima Ferdows, Sooz Kempner, Amy Gledhill & Chris Cantrill, Tom Allen, Tom Neenan and Toussaint Douglass, producer Ed Morrish, Lead Mojo

Best Use of Sound

• Creation of the Birds, composed and produced by Sami El-Enany, Falling Tree
• Killer, sound by Eloise Whitmore, producers Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
• Marcovaldo, sound by Sharon Hughes, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
• The Meaning of Zong, sound by Jon Nicholls, Jonquil Panting, Giles Terera, producer Jonquil Panting, Jonx Productions
• Song of the Reed: Swallowtail And Whirlpool, sound by Alisdair McGregor, producer Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain
• U.ME: the Musical, sound by Steve Levine, producers Lewis Borg-Cardona and Steve Levine, Magnum Opus Broadcasting

Best European Drama

• Belong by Fred O’Connor and Daithí McMahon, producer Daithí McMahon, Newstalk
• Down, By Law by Mila Culjak, producer Katja Šimunic, HRT Croatian Radio
• The Lion by Martin Algus, adapted by Andres Noormets, producer Andres Noormets, ERR Estonian Public Broadcasting
• Medea, Will I Be by Seneca, adapted by Saška Rakef and Špela Kravogel, director Špela Kravogel, Radio Slovenija
• Nutshell by Ian McEwan, adapted by Eva Blechová, producer Klará Novotná, CZR Czech Radio
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, adapted and produced by Ilinca Stihi, Radio Romania

Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama

• The Ballad of Anne and Mary by Lindsay Sharman, produced by Lindsay Sharman and Laurence Owen, Long Cat Media
• Blis-ta by Sonya Hale, producer Mimi Findlay, Clean Break
• The Cipher by Brett Neichin and Janina Matthewson, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
• Passenger List Series 2 by John Scott Dryden, Lauren Shippen, Meghan Fitzmartin, Janina Matthewson, Sarah Lotz, Mark Henry Phillips, producers John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions, PRX Radiotopia
• There Used to be a Me by Ian Billings, producer Barnaby Eaton-Jones, Spiteful Puppet and AUK Studios
• Tracks: Abyss by Matthew Broughton, producer James Robinson, BBC Cymru Wales