The shortlist for the 2024 BBC Audio Drama Awards was released on December 21. The winners will be announced on March 24, 2024 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House London.

The finalists of genre interest follow. Click here for the complete 2024 shortlist.

Best Adaptation

• Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama London
• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, adapted by Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicite
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Original Series or Serial

• The 5000 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producers Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland

Best Actor

• Toby Jones, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
• Tim McInerny, Benny & Hitch, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

Best Actress

• Dinita Gohil, Victory City, producer Alison Crawford, BBC Bristol

Best Supporting Performance

• Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions

Best Stand Up Comedy

• Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios Audio

Best Use of Sound

• The Dark is Rising, sound by Gareth Fry, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicité
• Slow Air, sound by Alisdair McGregor and Eloise Whitmore, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions

Best Podcast Audio Drama

• Below by Aaron Gray and Paul Skillen, producer John Wakefield, HTM Television
• The Haunter of the Dark – The Lovecraft Investigations by Julian Simpson, producer Sarah Tombling, Sweet Talk Productions
• The Salvation by Justin Lockey, Jeffrey Aidoo, and AK Benedict, producers John Hamm and Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain and Free Turn

Although not genre, many readers will also be interested in the Best Original Single Drama finalist Benny and Hitch which is about “The explosive relationship between Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock brought to life by Andrew McCaldon.”