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The winners of the 10th Â鶹Éç Audio Drama Awards 2021 were announced by Front Row presenter John Wilson at a ceremony staged virtually via Zoom and the Â鶹Éç's own virtual audience system at 7pm on Friday 26 March, 2021.

The Â鶹Éç Audio Drama Awards – presented by the Â鶹Éç together with the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – celebrate the range, originality and cut-through quality of audio drama on air and online and give recognition to the creativity of actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in this genre.

Best Actor
David Threlfall, Happiness!, director Gemma Jenkins, Â鶹Éç Audio Drama London, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best Actress
Maggie Steed, Suffer Little Children, director Jessica Dromgoole, Â鶹Éç Audio Drama London, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best Adaptation
The Voyage of the St Louis by Daniel Kehlmann, adapted by Tom Stoppard, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, Â鶹Éç Audio Drama London, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best Debut Performance
Jordan Nash, Oliver: Lagos to London, director Michael Buffong, feral inc, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best European Drama
Earthquake by Janko Polić Kamov, producer Katja Šimunić, HRT Croatian Radio

Best Original Series or Serial
Broken English by Shelagh Stephenson, producer Eoin O’Callaghan, Big Fish Productions, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best Original Single Drama
Magnitsky the Musical by Robert Hudson and Johnny Flynn, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, Â鶹Éç Audio Drama London, Â鶹Éç Radio 3
Commendation – The Likes of Us by Roy Williams, producer Mary Peate, Â鶹Éç Audio Drama London, Â鶹Éç Radio 3

Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama
Unwell: a Midwestern Gothic Mystery, producers Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde, HartLife NFP

Best Scripted Comedy (Longform)
The Musical Life of Boudicca… by Dan Kiss and Dave Cribb, producers Dave Cribb and Tom Price, The Rubber Chicken, Â鶹Éç Radio Wales

Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch Show)
The Skewer, creator and producer Jon Holmes, Unusual Productions, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

Best Use of Sound
The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, sound by Steve Bond, producers Joby Waldman and Steve Bond, Reduced Listening, Â鶹Éç Radio 4
Commendation – Cane, sound by Nigel Lewis, producer John Norton, Â鶹Éç Cymru Wales, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

The Year of Reinvention
Lockdown Theatre Festival, producers Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Mortimer, Steve Bond, Jack Howson and Joby Waldman, Reduced Listening, Â鶹Éç Radio 3 & Â鶹Éç Radio 4
Commendations – Connections, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions, Â鶹Éç Radio 4; The Plague, producer Turan Ali, Bona Broadcasting, Â鶹Éç Radio 4

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
The studio managers, technicians, sound engineers and designers, R&D engineers and all technical staff working on Â鶹Éç-produced and independent audio drama and comedy productions in the pandemic year.

IMISON AWARD 2021
Fraser Ayres, for Maynard, produced by Mel Harris for Â鶹Éç Radio 4

TINNISWOOD AWARD 2021
Christopher Douglas for Tristram Shandy: In Development, produced by Gary Brown for Â鶹Éç Radio 4