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Podcast Radio Hour: BBC Audio Drama Awards 2021

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2021

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Highlights of the shortlisted podcasts at this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Highlights of the shortlisted podcasts at this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards. Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Drama, Alison Hindell, shares her thoughts on all things audio.

Amanda Litherland and Ella Watts sample the shortlisted and winning podcasts from this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards. 

Alison Hindell, BBC Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Drama joins to discuss the history of the awards, and to share her thoughts on great audio drama.

And we hear Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde, producers of  Unwell: A Midwest Gothic Mystery - the winning entry in the category of Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama.

Podcasts recommended this week:
Children Of The Stones (BBC Radio 4)
Fake Heiress (BBC Radio 4)
The Sink (BBC Sounds)
Tribulation (Audible)
Murmurs (BBC Sounds)
Unwell: A Midwest Gothic Mystery (HartLife NFP)
Seancecast (Hat Trick)
Passenger List (Radiotopia)

Recommended radio dramas - The Voyage Of The St Louis, Magnitsky The Musical, Eight Point Nine Nine, The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, The Kubrick Test, Cigarettes and Chocolate, Under Milk Wood, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Cazalets
 
Find out more about the BBC Audio Drama Awards here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/48H1z30d4WLLz345v4BddQ1/audio-drama-awards-2021-the-finalists

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