The 2018 BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist includes these categories with works of genre interest —

Best Single Drama

• Dangerous Visions: Culture by Al Smith, producer Sally Avens, BBC Radio Drama London
• The Music Lesson by Hannah Silva, producer Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions
• The Red by Marcus Brigstocke, producer Caroline Raphael, Pier Productions

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

• Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Radio Drama London
• Dangerous Visions: Resistance by Val McDermid, producer Sue Roberts, BBC Radio Drama North
• Home Front by Katie Hims and Sarah Daniels, producer Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama Birmingham

Best Adaptation

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, producer Gary Brown, BBC Radio Drama North
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, adapted by Ayeesha Menon, producers Tracey Neale and Emma Harding, BBC Radio Drama London
• Terrible Beauty by Gerald Doyle, adapted and produced by Bernard Clarke, RTE Lyric FM

Best Actor

• Paapa Essiedu, Wide Open Spaces
• John Hurt, The Invisible Man Chapter 1
• Nikesh Patel, Midnight’s Children

Best Debut Performance

• Andrew Leung, Prime Cut
• Kate Phillips, Gudrun’s Saga
• Sabrina Sandhu, Black Eyed Girls

Best Use of Sound

• Dangerous Visions: Kafka’s Metamorphosis, sound by Nigel Lewis, producer James Robinson, BBC Cymru Wales
• Midnight’s Children, sound by Peter Ringrose, Anne Bunting, Jenni Burnett, producers Tracey Neale and Emma Harding, BBC Radio Drama London
• War of the Worlds, sound by Cal Knightley, Mike Etherden, Alison Craig, producer Marc Beeby, BBC Radio Drama London

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London, on January 28. Each category is judged by a team of industry experts including actors Ruth Jones and Paterson Joseph, Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, and writer David Eldridge.