This year’s winners announced for the APAs from AudioUK

The APAs, sponsored by Audible, revealed the winners at a gala event this evening at the BFI on London’s South Bank.

Remel London, Broadcaster and Founder of the Mainstream was this year’s host.

Organised by AudioUK, the APAs recognise excellence across podcasting and audio, covering podcasts, audiobooks, sound design, radio, presenting and more.

Among this year’s winners were the team at Fix Radio behind The Bald Builders Breakfast, who took gold in the Entertainment category, and newcomers Becky and Ben Saer, who won Ensemble Cast/Presenting Team for Becky and Ben’s Fertility Spotlight.

The Drama and Fiction award went to Penny4 for supernatural thriller Up in Smoke, while We Are Grape won the Music category for Pete Tong’s Essential History Of Dance.

Three new categories were introduced for 2025.

Wajid Yaseen and Steve Urquhart of Modus Arts won the History category with Tape Letters Scotland, a project documenting the cassette-tape messages shared by Pakistani migrants who settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980.

RAW/Audible won True Crime for Cursed, presented by Femi Oke, who also collected gold in Presenter/Host.

The QueerAF Podcast & Trans+ History Week won the Changemaker Award for its six-part mini-documentary series exploring gender-diverse communities throughout history.

In the new-talent categories, Scout Tzofiya Bolton from the Prison Radio Association won New Voice, while Mia Thornton from BBC Sounds Audio Lab and Reform Radio took gold for New Producer.

Bella Soames of DMG Media was named Producer of the Year, Prison Radio Association won Production Company of the Year, and Fix Radio was named Publisher/Network of the Year.

The AudioUK Award went to Crossed Wires Festival for championing the UK podcast and audio sector.

AudioUK CEO Chloe Straw praised the breadth of creators recognised this year and highlighted the importance of celebrating both established and emerging talent.

She thanked Audible as lead sponsor, Amazon Music for supporting the Pay What You Can scheme, industry partners, sponsors, the AudioUK Board and executive, and the team behind the awards led by Katie Banham.

She added that the opportunity within the industry is greater than ever and encouraged creators to take advantage of it.

 

The APAs from AudioUK

Winners 2025

 

Entertainment

GOLD – Jack Edwards, Travis Glossop, Demi Bell, Brogan Hubber and Toby Penman – Fix Radio

SILVER – Ewan Newbigging-Lister – JamPot Productions

BRONZE – Katie Boden – TBI Media

Nominees

Helena Webb – BBC Audio

Jemima Rathbone – JamPot Productions

Dino Sofos, Caillin McDaid, Will Gibson Smith and Flossie Barrett – Persephonica

Rory Powers and Kit Grier Mulvenna – This Paranormal Life

 

Branded Content

GOLD – Natalie Steed – Rhubarb Rhubarb

SILVER – Sam Taylor – Prison Radio Association

BRONZE – Podcast Team – National Trust

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Ollie Guillou – OG Podcasts & The Guernsey Alzheimer’s Association

Nominees

Fresh Air

Ollie Wilson, Kat Hutcheson, Nia Deo, Charlie Murrell, Rahnee Prescod – Sony Music Podcasts

 

Little Ears

GOLD – Cole Stopnik – Independent Podcaster

SILVER – Laura Hyde – Chalk & Blade

BRONZE – Jack Whitney, Chloe McLaren, James Trusson, Adam Devenney, Kathleen Moroney, Polly Evans, Ravina Bajwa and Georgie Britton – Natural History Museum, Forever Audio and Tonies

Nominees

Gill Davies, Claire O’Gallagher and Derek Farrell – GDP/BBC Scotland Learning

Krishna Murali – The Fourth Bookmark, Independent Podcast

Morwenna Rose – The Book of Arralan

 

Arts and Culture Sponsored by London Podcast Festival

GOLD – Chris Mitchell – Breaking Atoms and Sumit Sharma – Unedited

SILVER – Tony Phillips and Axel Kacoutié – Sea Salt and Mango

BRONZE – Sam Tyler – Freelance

Nominees

Meg Elliot – BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Overcoat Media

Meera Kumar – Freelance

Wajid Yaseen and Steve Urquhart – Modus Arts

 

Lifestyle and Society

GOLD – Suzi Dale & Micky Curling – Story Publishing

SILVER – Laura Grimshaw and Jon Holmes – unusual

BRONZE – Hugh Sheehan – BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reduced Listening

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Krishna Murali – The Fourth Bookmark, Independent Podcast

Nominees

Rich Le Gate – Inbetween Man

Ollie Brookes, James Wilson, Faye Dunn and Arthur Hagues – Prison Radio Association

 

New Voice sponsored by BBC Sounds

GOLD – Scout Tzofiya Bolton – Prison Radio Association

SILVER – Dr. Emma Nagouse – Lead Mojo Productions

BRONZE – Naomi Bloomstein – Freelance

Nominees

Siddharth Khajuria – Falling Tree Productions
Ajay Tegala – National Trust

Anna Sinfield – Novel

 

Comedy

GOLD – Jon Holmes – unusual

SILVER – Ollie Wilson, Charlie Murrell, Nia Deo, Rahnee Prescod – Sony Music Podcasts

BRONZE – Lauren Mackay – BBC Scotland

Nominees

Dave Masterman, Michael Dale and Bertie Moores – Audio Always

Ed Morrish – Lead Mojo Productions

Rory Powers and Kit Grier Mulvenna – This Paranormal Life

 

Audiobook

GOLD – Kate MacDonald – Freelance

SILVER – Rosemary O’Dowd – Penguin Random House

BRONZE – Liam Gerrard – Raconteurs Audio

Nominees
Nicola Wall, Oliver Grant and Yuki Parmar – Audible

Chris Thompson – Penguin Random House

Nicola Alexandrou – The Guardian

 

Drama and Fiction

GOLD – Guy Larsen, Cambria Bailey-Jones, Gabriela Jones and Dan Pugsley – Penny4

SILVER – Emma Stephens & Bernard P Achampong – Unedited

BRONZE – Nicolas Jackson – Afonica

Nominees
Tracey Neale – BBC Studios

Max Blair and Mark McKibbin – Blackabbey Productions

Hat Trick Productions / Audible

 

Factual/Documentary sponsored by Great Big Story

GOLD – Bella Soames – DMG Media

SILVER – Chalk & Blade/ Audible

BRONZE – Timur Dzhafarov and Cicely Fell – Falling Tree Productions

Nominees

Blanchard House

Becky Lipscombe and Isobel Cockerell, Coda Story

Leigh Meyer, Amalie Sortland, Josephine Wheeler and Nicholas Alexander – Novel

 

History

GOLD – Wajid Yaseen and Steve Urquhart – Modus Arts

SILVER – Joe Dunthorne and Eleanor McDowall – Falling Tree Productions

BRONZE – Hugh Sheehan – BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reduced Listening

Nominees

Ruth Abrahams, Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – Project Citizen

Production Team – StoryHunter

TellTale Industries and Antica Productions

 

Sound Design

GOLD – Scout Tzofiya Bolton, Andrew Wilkie, Ellen Orchard, Micky Curling and Phil Maguire – Prison Radio Association

SILVER – Phoebe McIndoe – Falling Tree Productions

BRONZE – Esa Williams – RAW/Audible

Nominees

Nicholas Alexander – Novel
Alice Boyd and Joy Nkoyo – Peanut & Crumb

Ivan d’Avoine, Derick Armah – Transmission Roundhouse

 

Music sponsored by Morley Radio

GOLD – Matt Healy, Katie Fox, Jojo Jones, Joe Gardner, Rachel Barton and Pete Tong – We Are Grape

SILVER – Lady Unchained and Arthur Hagues – Prison Radio Association

BRONZE – Silas Gray – Reduced Listening

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Tom Whalley – Freelance

Nominees

Matthew Bannister and Natalie Steed – Folk on Foot

Ollie Braddy. Jojo Jones, Matt Healy and Sarah Story – We Are Grape

 

Changemaker Award sponsored by The Podcast Show

GOLD – QueerAF podcast with Trans+ History Week

SILVER – Wild Tales – National Trust

BRONZE – Tommy Kennedy, Claire Offley and Fran Reynolds – Carousel

Nominees
Tash Walker and Adam Zmith – Aunt Nell

Short Cuts – Falling Tree Productions

Outside In – Prison Radio Association

 

Narrator

GOLD – Charlotte Ritchie – Nosy Crow

SILVER – Ella Kenion – Bonnier Books UK

BRONZE – Poppy Mae Barrett – HarperCollins Publishers

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Maxim Reston – White House Sound/Hodder & Stoughton

Nominees

Harriet Walter – HarperCollins Publishers

Dan Jones – Sony Music Podcasts

 

Presenter/Host sponsored by Everybody Media

GOLD – Femi Oke – RAW/Audible

SILVER – Joe Dunthorne – Falling Tree Productions

BRONZE – Jerry Brotton – Whistledown Productions

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Krishna Murali – The Fourth Bookmark, Independent Podcast

Nominees
Danny Robins – Bafflegab Productions/ Uncanny Media

Niall Breslin – Chalk & Blade/Audible

 

News/Politics

GOLD – Ruth Abrahams, Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – Project Citizen

SILVER – Christopher Pitt, Stephen Carroll, Caroline Hepker, Tiwa Adebayo and James Woolcock – Bloomberg

BRONZE – Edward Drummond – The Times

Nominees
George McDonagh – Freelance

Artemis Irvine – Freelance, Whistledown Productions

May Robson – Reduced Listening

Sports

GOLD – Andrew Wilkie, Faye Dunn, Phil Maguire and Paula Harriott – Prison Radio Association

SILVER – Chris Browning-Brant, Christian Hewgill, Katie Osborne and Jamie Smith – Formula 1

BRONZE – Sophie Penney and Adonis Pratsides – Global

Nominees

Rob Sillito , Ben Russell and Emma Brydges – Couch to Coached Running podcast

Damien St John and Ant McGinley – Podomedy

Ray Paul, Ishtia May, Jerelle Forbes and Heartless Crew (MC Bushkin & DJ Fonti) – The Playmaker Group

 

True Crime

GOLD – RAW/Audible

SILVER – Rima Ahmed, Luke de Costa and Luke Eldridge – BBC Sounds

BRONZE – Carl Miller, Caroline Thornham and Tom Wright – Novel

Nominees

Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard – Falling Tree Productions

Andrew Wilkie – Prison Radio Association

Production Team – StoryHunter

 

Ensemble Cast/Presenting Team

GOLD – Becky and Ben Saer

SILVER – Zak and Jules – Prison Radio Association

BRONZE – Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson, Harriet Harman and Jess Phillips – Sky News

Nominees

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins – Audible/Hat Trick

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders – Audible/Listen

Rachel, Elaine and Caroline – Whistledown

 

New Producer sponsored by Amazon Music

GOLD – Mia Thornton – BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reform Radio

SILVER – Marnie Duke – Transmission Roundhouse

BRONZE – Katie Fox – We Are Grape

HIGHLY COMMENDED – Riham Moussa – Freelance

Nominees

Lorna Reader – BBC Studios

Joseph Russell – Fire Mountain Productions

 

Producer of the Year sponsored by Audible

GOLD – Bella Soames – DMG Media

SILVER – Andrew Wilkie – Prison Radio Association

BRONZE – Jack Edwards- Fix Radio

Nominees

Phoebe McIndoe – Falling Tree Productions

Georgia Arundell – Platform Media

Georgina Savage – RAW

Jon Holmes – unusual

 

AudioUK Award

Crossed Wires Festival

 

Production Company of the Year sponsored by Aiir

GOLD – Prison Radio Association

SILVER – Bespoken Media

BRONZE – Falling Tree Productions

Nominees

Fresh Air

Novel

Reduced Listening

Samizdat Audio

 

Publisher or Network of the Year sponsored by BetterHelp

GOLD – Fix Radio

SILVER – Resonance

BRONZE – Goalhanger

Nominees

Fun Kids

RQ Network

Sony Music Podcasts