The Themed Programming Award
GOLD
Family Life
Senior Producer : Howard Belgard
Presenters: Tony Fisher & Howard Bentham
Managing Editor: James Coghill
Station Sound: Kevin Mclean
SBJ Programmes: Keith Gooden
Assistant Editor: Mark Hellings
This was radio of the highest quality: gripping stories of family life that will linger long in the memory. The judges were impressed by both the planning and execution of the project. The stories it produced were compelling glimpses of extraordinary lives lived all around us.
BBC Hereford & Worcester
SILVER
1968 - Myth or Reality ?
Presenters include: Sir John Tusa, David Aaronovitch, Miranda Sawyer & Rosie Boycott.
Commissioning Editor, Radio 4: Jane Ellison
Day-by-Day: Production team Barney Rowntree, Pete Law, Samuel Bryant, Joby Waldman, Somethin Else
Year of Revolutions: Producer Louise Adamson, Whistledown
Sex, Telly & Britain and The Sixty-Eighters at 60: Producer Phil Tinline, BBC A&M Documentaries
The My Lai Tapes: Producer Rosie Goldsmith, BBC News
Rivers of Blood: Producer Rob Shepherd, BBC News
4.4.68: Producer Polly Thomas, BBC Drama
Lets Murder Vivaldi: Producer Peter Kavanagh, BBC Drama
Radio 4 should be applauded for the ambition of this comprehensive season. Featuring audio recorded at Robert Kennedy's assassination, the re-staging of iconic dramas of the era, a dramatisation of the last days of Martin Luther King, drop-ins of the year's news in archive form and a near punch-up during a debate about the Paris riots, this was a richly-textured project that imaginatively conveyed the tumultuous events of 1968.
Somethin Else, Whistledown & BBC Production Departments for BBC Radio 4
BRONZE
The Forgotten Army
Presenter/Writer/Producer: Greg Burke
Presenters/Producers: Sue Carter & Trevor Marshall
Producer: Joe Thomas
The Forgotten Army on Jack FM was an ambitious but successful project,exploring an important but under-reported story through local and personal lenses. The result was compelling, revealing and informative. Great local radio.
106 JACK fm
The Chopin Experience
Editor: Edwina Wolstencroft
Senior Producer: David Gallagher
Producers: Bill Nicholls, Peter Meanwell & Chris Taylor
Presenters: Rob Cowan, Sarah Walker & Tom Service
Broadcast Assistants: Claire Wass & Stephanie Kulesza
Researcher: Steve Urquhart
The Chopin Experience was accessible, insightful and inspiring. It connected strongly with the audience, demonstrating a masterful sureness of touch, oozing enthusiasm, creativity and authority.
BBC Radio 3
US'08 BBC Bus: Talking America
Editor: Steve Titherington
Presenters: Ros Atkins, Allan Little & Steve Evans
Chapter Editors: Kevin Bishop, Jonathan Chapman & Jamie Angus
Technical Producers: Jonny Halliday, Jacques Sweaney & Richard Kenny
Producers: Chloe Hadjimatheou, Katie Dahlstrom & Vanessa Buschsluter
Driver: Aaron "Bo"
Sloans: Adrian Brown
Talking America was impressive in every respect. The scale, range and ambition of the project was enormous, but this was well-matched by the personal, revealing and poignant stories of middle America that gave the programming such power.
BBC World Service News for BBC World Service
