The BBC Audio Drama Awards were presented on March 24. There was one winner of genre interest, Best Supporting Performance by Mark Heap in Kafka’s Dick.

Also, many readers will be interested that Benny and Hitch, about “The explosive relationship between Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock brought to life by Andrew McCaldon”, was honored with The Society of Authors  Imison Award, which celebrates the best in new writing for the medium of audio drama and is worth £3,000.

The complete list of winners follows the jump.

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BEST ORIGINAL SINGLE DRAMA

• WINNER: Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London

 BEST ADAPTATION

• WINNER: Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward, adapted by Roy Williams, producer Gill Parry, feral inc

COMMENDATION: 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

COMMENDATION: Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama London

 BEST ORIGINAL SERIES OR SERIAL

• WINNER: Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North

COMMENDATION: There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions

 BEST ACTOR

• WINNER: Hiran Abeysekera, Dear Harry Kane, director Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: Lorn Macdonald, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland

 BEST ACTRESS

• WINNER: Rosamund Pike, People Who Knew Me, director Daniella Isaacs, Merman

 BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

• WINNER: Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, directors Polly Thomas and Dermot Daly, Naked Productions

THE MARC BEEBY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE

• WINNER: Rosalind Eleazar, Hindsight, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland

COMMENDATION: Jadie Rose Hobson, Exposure, director Anne Isger, BBC Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: Dan Parr, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

 BEST SIT COM OR COMEDY DRAMA

• WINNER: Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio

 BEST STAND UP COMEDY

• WINNER: Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer Georgia Keating, BBC Studios Audio

COMMENDATION: Janey Godley: the C Bomb by Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions

 BEST USE OF SOUND

• WINNER: Hamlet Noir, sound by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen, producers Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black, Almost Tangible

 BEST PODCAST AUDIO DRAMA

• WINNER: Badger and the Blitz by Richard Turley and Darren Francis, producer Richard Turley, ROXO

 BEST EUROPEAN DRAMA

• WINNER: This Word by Marta Rebzda, producer Waldemar Modestowicz, Polish Radio Theatre

 IMISON AWARD 2024

• WINNER: Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

COMMENDATION: In Moderation by Katie Bonna, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London

TINNISWOOD AWARD 2024

• WINNER: Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones, producer John Norton, BBC Cymru Wales

 OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

• Oliver Emanuel, presented by Dan Rebellato.

 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Graham Garden, presented by Charlotte Moore.