Some of the highlights were:

• International Business Awards – Outstanding Export Achievement for BBC Worldwide
  
  
• an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for George Fenton, for Blue Planet
  
  
• two WHSmith People’s Choice Book Awards for Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals, and his autobiography
  Life on Air

• Right Start Magazine’s Best Toy Awards 2002 – a Gold award for software for Tweenies – Play to the Music
  
  
• a BAFTA for Pre-school Live Action for Teletubbies Everywhere
  
  
• a prestigious Peabody Award for BBC America for Stephen Poliakoff’s Almost Strangers (UK title: Perfect Strangers)
  
  
• a record eighteen Spoken Word Awards, including Publisher of the Year, for BBC Audiobooks.