{"id":545433,"date":"2026-04-22T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:39:10","slug":"arias-2026-nominees-announced-for-roundhouse-event-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545433\/","title":{"rendered":"ARIAS 2026 nominees announced for Roundhouse event \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A wide range of UK radio and audio programmes have been shortlisted for this year\u2019s ARIAS awards.<\/p>\n

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The Audio Academy has revealed the full list of nominees for the 2026 Audio and Radio Industry Awards, with winners set to be announced at London\u2019s Roundhouse on Thursday 21st May.<\/p>\n

Now marking ten years in its current form, the ARIAS continues to recognise work across radio, podcasts and audio production, with entries spanning major broadcasters, independent producers and global platforms.<\/p>\n

It also marks ten years since the UK\u2019s biggest commercial radio group, Global, pulled its support for the Academy and the event.<\/p>\n

Those competing for the big titles will do so knowing the results went unchallenged from some of the UK\u2019s biggest podcasts and radio brands such as LBC, Classic FM, Capital and Heart.<\/p>\n

But among those shortlisted are titles including The Louis Theroux Podcast, British Scandal and Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball, alongside presenters such as Greg James, Romesh Ranganathan, Tyler West and Nadia Jae.<\/p>\n

Rylan will return as host for the ceremony, saying: \u201cThis night is all about celebrating the best of radio and audio and how much it means to so many people around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are 21 categories this year, covering areas including breakfast shows, comedy, factual output and news, as well as technical innovation and commercial partnerships.<\/p>\n

Nominees come from organisations including the BBC, Bauer Media, Fix Radio and Tortoise Media, alongside platforms such as Apple Music Radio and Audible.<\/p>\n

The shortlist was announced at a nominations event in London, with entries judged by token industry figures.<\/p>\n

FULL LIST OF NOMINEES<\/p>\n

Best New Presenter<\/p>\n

Anna Sinfield \u2013 Novel
Becky and Ben Saer \u2013 Becky & Ben\u2019s Fertility Spotlight
Beth Ditto \u2013 BBC 6Music and BBC Sounds
Georgie Styles \u2013 Smoke Trail and Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio and BBC Sounds Audio Lab
Gok Wan \u2013 Magic Radio
Hugh Sheehan \u2013 BBC Sounds Audio Lab
James Chandler and George Butler \u2013 AI Haven\u2019t a Clue
Louise Wener \u2013 Absolute Radio
Mia Thornton \u2013 BBC Sounds Audio Lab
Roxie Nafousi \u2013 Rise with Roxie, Bauer Media Audio UK
Siva Gold, BCFM \u2013 BCFM
Hattie Hasan and Steph Leese \u2013 Tradeswomen Together, Fix Radio<\/p>\n

Best Music Breakfast Radio Show<\/p>\n

1Xtra Breakfast with Nadia Jae \u2013 BBC Radio 1Xtra
Breakfast with Greg James \u2013 BBC Radio 1
Breakfast \u2013 BBC Radio 3
Boogie in the Morning \u2013 Forth 1
Bowie at Breakfast \u2013 Clyde 1
Magic Radio Breakfast with Gok Wan and Harriet Scott \u2013 Magic FM
Nick Grimshaw \u2013 BBC Radio 6 Music
The Bald Builders Breakfast \u2013 Fix Radio<\/p>\n

Best Speech Breakfast Radio Show<\/p>\n

5 Live Breakfast \u2013 BBC Radio 5 Live
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe \u2013 Bloomberg Radio
Good Morning Ulster \u2013 BBC Radio Ulster
Joe Sims\u2019 \u2018Proper Bristol Breakfast\u2019 \u2013 BBC Radio Bristol
Sophie Law \u2013 BBC Radio Oxford
The Graham Liver Breakfast Show \u2013 BBC Radio Lancashire<\/p>\n

Best Music Entertainment<\/p>\n

ChillDaBeats with Phil Taggart \u2013 Slack Panda Productions
Garry Spence \u2013 Clyde 1
Haroon Rashid \u2013 BBC Asian Network
Hometime with Bush and Richie \u2013 Absolute Radio
Justin Dealey \u2013 BBC Three Counties Radio
Oh Gatekeeper with Joe Talbot \u2013 Slack Panda Productions
Remi Burgz \u2013 BBC Radio 1Xtra
Romesh Ranganathan \u2013 TBI Media for BBC Radio 2
Shaun Keaveny\u2019s Community Garden Radio \u2013 Burning Bright Productions
Tyler West \u2013 Kiss<\/p>\n

Best Speech Entertainment<\/p>\n

British Scandal \u2013 Audible and Samizdat Audio
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball \u2013 Persephonica
Fame Under Fire \u2013 BBC Sounds
Matt Chorley \u2013 BBC Radio 5 Live
Mistresses with Jameela Jamil & Dr Kate Lister \u2013 Audible and Mags Creative
Out of Doors \u2013 BBC Radio Scotland
NPR Talk \u2013 Prison Radio Association
Read On \u2013 The Audiobook Show from RNIB \u2013 RNIB Connect Radio
Rylan: How To Be In Love \u2013 Mindhouse Productions for BBC Sounds
The Louis Theroux Podcast \u2013 Mindhouse Productions<\/p>\n

Best Music Award<\/p>\n

20th Century Radicals \u2013 Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3
21st Century Folk \u2013 Pomona Audio for BBC Radio 2
The Dance Music Archive with Andi Durrant \u2013 KISSTORY
Elton John\u2019s Rocket Hour \u2013 Apple Music Radio
Facing The Music \u2013 Overcoat Media for BBC Radio 3
Folk on Foot
Jim Salveson \u2013 Freshly Squeezed: A New Music Podcast
Q Year\u2019s Day \u2013 JazzFM
Radio 1\u2019s New Music Show with Jack Saunders \u2013 BBC Radio 1
So Hear Me Out \u2013 Reduced Listening for Southbank Centre<\/p>\n

Best Comedy<\/p>\n

French & Saunders: Titting About \u2013 Listen and Audible
From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast \u2013 Baby Cow and Audible
It\u2019s a Fair Cop \u2013 BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4
IM1 \u2013 Manx Radio
Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby \u2013 DLT Entertainment for BBC Radio 4
Shagged, Married, Annoyed \u2013 Avalon
The Jon Richardson Show \u2013 Absolute Radio
The Matt Forde Focus Group \u2013 Avalon for BBC Radio 4
The Skewer \u2013 Unusual for BBC Radio 4
Where There\u2019s A Will There\u2019s A Wake \u2013 Sony Music Entertainment<\/p>\n

Best Factual Single Episode<\/p>\n

Coldplay: Off The Record \u2013 Hits Radio
In Pieces \u2013 Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4
Locked Up \u2013 BBC Radio 4
Lost in Lullabies \u2013 Sound and Bones for BBC Radio 4
No Contact, when adult children estrange \u2013 The Economist
Paul Simon\u2019s Political Storm \u2013 Peanut & Crumb for BBC Radio 4
Pete Wicks\u2019 Man Made \u2013 Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u2013 Bauer Media Audio UK
The Last Boat \u2013 The Economist
The Pop Legacy of Quincy Jones \u2013 Jazz FM and Greatest Hits Radio<\/p>\n

Best Factual Series Award<\/p>\n

Adrift \u2013 Blanchard House
Assume Nothing: Creation of a Teenage Satanist \u2013 BBC Sounds
Missing in the Amazon \u2013 The Guardian
My Stalker Moved in Next Door \u2013 Hits Radio
Pipeline: Left to Die \u2013 Daily Mail
The House at Number 48 \u2013 BBC Radio 4
The Spy Who \u2013 Audible
The Smuggler \u2013 BBC Radio 4
The Toxic Waste Scandal \u2013 BBC Radio Northampton<\/p>\n

Best Drama or Fiction<\/p>\n

Behind the Scenes at the Museum \u2013 BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4
Doctor Who \u2013 Hooklight \u2013 Big Finish Productions
Four Gammons and a Unicorn \u2013 Pozzitive for BBC Radio 4
Lyra \u2013 BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4
Ranger Rae And The Wildlifers \u2013 Fun Kids for National Trust
Shirley\u2019s Party \u2013 Hooley Productions for BBC Radio 4
Shorts \u2013 Ben Burrell<\/p>\n

Best News<\/p>\n

Assisted dying, the debate beyond the bill \u2013 The Economist
Electoral Dysfunction \u2013 Sky News
From Glory to Horror: The Liverpool Title Parade \u2013 Hits Radio Liverpool
Hits and Headlines \u2013 Hits Radio
Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica\u2019s Recovery \u2013 BBC Radio 1Xtra Newsbeat
Sitrep \u2013 BFBS
Teen Summit \u2013 BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitesize
The Bicester Fire \u2013 BBC Radio Oxford
The Mishal Husain Show \u2013 Bloomberg
The Smuggler \u2013 BBC Radio 4
Today in Focus \u2013 The Guardian
Trump100 \u2013 Sky News<\/p>\n

Best Sports<\/p>\n

F1 Explains \u2013 Formula 1 and Audioboom
Fighting Talk \u2013 World\u2019s End for BBC Radio 5 Live
Not by the Playbook \u2013 BBC World Service
The Fast And The Curious
The Ryder Cup \u2013 BBC Radio 5 Live
The Women in Sport Podcast
Total Sport Merseyside \u2013 BBC Radio Merseyside<\/p>\n

Best Event Coverage<\/p>\n

BBC Proms 2025 \u2013 BBC Radio 3
Donald Trump\u2019s State Visit \u2013 Electoral Dysfunction and Trump100 \u2013 Sky News
Live Aid Relived \u2013 Greatest Hits Radio
The King\u2019s Trust Carol Concert \u2013 Magic Classical
The Oasis Reunion \u2013 Absolute Radio
The Shipping Forecast Day \u2013 BBC Radio 4
Tool Theft Rally \u2013 Fix Radio
Train Tracks \u2013 Tandem Productions for BBC Radio 3
Vernon Kay At The Oasis Homecoming Concert \u2013 BBC Radio 2<\/p>\n

Best Sonic Branding<\/p>\n

Absolute Radio
BBC Asian Network
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 6 Music
Superscoreboard \u2013 Clyde 1
Live Aid Relived \u2013 Greatest Hits Radio
Magic Radio<\/p>\n

Best Commercial Partnership<\/p>\n

Christmas saved for 318,767 children thanks to B&M \u2013 Cash for Kids and Hits Radio
Comedians Chatting Cancer \u2013 Cancer Research UK and Acast
Historic Scotland Podcast \u2013 Think Publishing and Historic Scotland
How To Fail \u2013 Dove and Sony Music Podcasts
The Citro\u00ebn Apprentice Driving Force \u2013 Fix Radio and Citro\u00ebn
Staying Relevant in Vegas with Avios \u2013 Acast and Staying Relevant Productions
The \u2018Altogether Different\u2019 Start to the Day with KISS Breakfast \u2013 Channel 4
Wickes \u2013 Bauer Media Audio UK<\/p>\n

Best Social Impact<\/p>\n

Bantam of The Opera \u2013 BBC Radio Leeds
Black Girls and Sport: A Break-up Story \u2013 Women in Sport
Criminally Queer \u2013 Reduced Listening for BBC Sounds Audio Lab
Fix Radio on mental health
Fun Kids Windrush
Kids Live at 5 \u2013 Cheshire\u2019s MIX56
Life After Prison \u2013 Prison Radio Association
Lost Souls \u2013 Hits Radio
Pipeline: Left to Die \u2013 Daily Mail
Stop a Stroke \u2013 BBC Radio Manchester
The Grave Robbers \u2013 BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4
The Scars \u2013 Story Publishing<\/p>\n

Best Technical Innovation Award<\/p>\n

Illuminated: The Organ Symphony \u2013 Loftus Media for BBC Radio 4
Radio Essentials PrepPad\u00ae \u2013 Essentials Digital Media Ltd
The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score \u2013 BBC Radio 5 Live
The Wargame \u2013 Sky News and Tortoise
Train Tracks \u2013 Tandem Productions for BBC Radio 3
Voice Notes Suck<\/p>\n

John Myers Local Station of the Year<\/p>\n

BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Merseyside
BBC Radio Sheffield
BBC Radio Ulster
Clyde 1
Forth 1
Lyca Radio
Original 106<\/p>\n

Audio Brand of the Year<\/p>\n

Apple Music Radio
Audio Always Originals
BBC Sounds
Rayo
Sony Music Podcasts<\/p>\n

UK Radio Station or Network of the Year<\/p>\n

BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
Fix Radio
Greatest Hits Radio
Hits Radio
Jazz FM<\/p>\n

Radio Times Moment of the Year<\/p>\n

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast: 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Chelsey Ward shares her lived experience of racist abuse in Yorkshire \u2013 BBC Radio Sheffield
Comedian Dan Skinner swims with the Blue Tits Chill Swimmers off the Pembrokeshire coast \u2013 Think Publishing and Great Western Railway
I Don\u2019t Like Cricket, I Love It \u2013 BBC Three Counties Radio
\u201cListen love, you\u2019re trying ever so hard\u201d \u2013 Bloomberg
Live Aid Relived \u2013 Greatest Hits Radio
Sarah Speaks: The Southport Attacks \u2013 BBC Radio Merseyside
Scotland V Denmark World Cup Qualifier \u2013 BBC Radio Scotland
The Human Cost: How Tool Theft Pushed One Listener to the Brink of Suicide \u2013 Fix Radio
The King\u2019s Music Room \u2013 Apple Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wide range of UK radio and audio programmes have been shortlisted for this year\u2019s ARIAS awards. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}