{"id":693338,"date":"2026-05-25T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:45:11","slug":"uk-producers-win-at-new-york-radio-awards-2026-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693338\/","title":{"rendered":"UK producers win at New York Radio Awards 2026 \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK audio producers were among the major winners at this year\u2019s New York Festivals Radio Awards.<\/p>\n

Almost Tangible won a Grand Tower for Wolf Valley, a five part eco thriller set in Norway and made for BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n

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The drama, conceived and written by writer director Charlotte Mel\u00e9n, also received recognition in the entertainment, sound and writing categories at the 2026 Radio Awards.<\/p>\n

Other UK linked winners included The Skewer from Unusual Productions, which won Gold Towers in Comedy Program and Sound Art, while Fantasy Park: Fifty Years On also won Gold in Documentary.<\/p>\n

Magnum Opus Broadcasting won Gold for Paul McCartney: Beatles And Beyond, made for BBC World Service, and Folk on Foot: Goblin Band in the City of London was also among the Gold winners.<\/p>\n

See all the winners here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Canada was also strongly represented at the event, with CBC\/Radio-Canada named Broadcaster of the Year for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n

CBC\u2019s Sea of Lies, made with What\u2019s the Story Sounds, also won a Grand Tower in the Narrative and Documentary Podcast category.<\/p>\n

Natacha Mercure, General Manager, Audio and Radio, Radio-Canada, said the broadcaster\u2019s wins were \u201can immense honour and a great source of pride for everyone at CBC\/Radio-Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other Grand Tower winners were Uncuffed Season 4 from KALW Public Media and Wolf Valley from Almost Tangible.<\/p>\n

Stephen Capus, President of Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty and former President of NBC News, received the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

Dear Rachelle, from News Corp Australia and True Crime Australia, received the 2026 National Press Club Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK audio producers were among the major winners at this year\u2019s New York Festivals Radio Awards. Almost Tangible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-693338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}