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BBC
Audiobooks celebrated another successful year at the 2003
Spoken Word Awards ceremony, picking up 19 awards in total
– including 8 Gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze as well
as Performer of the Year for Michael Palin’s reading
of Sahara. The awards were hosted in September by Clive
Anderson at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
In addition, the Radio Times award for Best Male Performer
of the year for non-fiction was awarded to Michael Palin
for his reading of Sahara for
BBC Audiobooks.
A further Radio Times initiative was that, for the first
time ever, readers had an opportunity to vote for their
favourite from a shortlist of audiobooks – and the
winner was BBC Radio Collection’s I’m
Sorry I Haven’t a Clue Anniversary Special.
The team of Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden
and Colin Sell were in attendance to take the award.
Radio Collection team with members of
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
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Gold awards
Publishing Initiative: BBC Audiobooks
Safeway Car Wash Promotion
Drama: Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Drama: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles
Dickens
Non-Fiction: Sahara by Michael Palin,
read by Michael Palin (unabridged)
Comedy/Humour: I’m Sorry I Haven’t
A Clue Anniversary Special
Unabridged Modern Fiction: Spies by Michael
Frayn, read by Martin Jarvis
Biography: A Moment Toward the End of
the Play by Timothy West, read by Timothy West
Radio Times Readers’ Choice: I’m
Sorry I Haven’t A Clue Anniversary Special
Silver awards
Unabridged Classic Fiction: The Graduate
by Charles Webb, read by William Hope
Children’s Age 6 & Over: His
Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (full-cast dramatisation)
Unabridged Modern Fiction: Atonement by
Ian McEwan, read by Carole Boyd
Radio Times Readers’ Choice: His
Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (full-cast dramatisation)
Bronze awards
Abridgement: A History of
Britain Vol.3 by Simon Schama, read by Timothy West (abridged
by Sarah Kilgarriff)
Unabridged Classic Fiction: Zorba the
Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, read by Stephen Thorne
Crime &Thriller: A Presumption of
Death by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
Children’s Age 6 & Over: Feather
Boy by Nicky Singer, read by Philip Franks
Poetry: The Nation’s Favourite Children’s
Poems, various readers
Biography: The Road to Nab End by William
Woodruff, read by Sam Kelly
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Jan Paterson, Publishing Director of BBC Audiobooks, said:
“I was very proud of our publishing last night,
as our titles came up again and again for awards. I am especially
pleased that I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
won two awards for its 30th anniversary special release,
and that Doctor Who – currently
celebrating its 40th anniversary – should win with
a new, original audio drama Death Comes to Time.
It was also terrific to see that, of the four Publishing
Initiative nominations, three were for BBC Audiobooks marketing
initiatives; congratulations to Steve Crickmer on winning
the award for his Safeway Car Wash Promotion. Overall, the
fact that we won so many awards – 19 in total –
is a tribute to the creativity and imagination both of our
‘talent’ and of our team at BBC Audiobooks.”
The awards are given by the Spoken Word Publisher’s
Association and judged by a panel of independent experts
including journalists, producers, writers and retailers.
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