awards
POLLY THOMAS
2024 Imison Award finalist
HAPPY HOUR
Liv Fowler’s, sharp debut drama was on the shortlist for the prestigious Imison Awards for best new first audio drama.
Two young women in a pub, discussing life, love, class friendship and how to get rid of the man they have killed and stashed behind the bins…… A dark, funny meditation on 21st century female friendship.
Directed by Jelena Budimir and produced by Polly Thomas
“….With her own kind of poetry and flashes of wit, Liv Fowler conjures a world rarely visible, where subjects include which life to live, the financial inaccessibility of university and the problem that is men…”
Jane Anderson, Radio Times 24th May 2023
“…In a two-hander written by relative newbie, Liv Fowler, Shvorne Marks and Ami Metcalf , who play Em and Chloe, are fun and believable, their interaction snappy; even the in-between scenes music is good…….it was lovely to hear genuine South London accents, as well as listen to a drama that tackles the problems between men and women in an original way…’
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer 28th May 2023
— a A Naked Production for BBC Radio 4
2023 BBC Audio Awards Best Series Winner
EXEMPLAR by Ben and Max Ringham and Dan Rebellato ,
A modern-day thriller set in the north east of England. Jess is a lone wolf scientist with a troubled past whose passion for sound makes her the UK’s leading audio forensic examiner, who undertakes a different sound challenge in every episode.
Exemplar: an audio recording made by a forensic analyst to recreate the precise audio conditions of a piece of evidence in a criminal or civil case
Cast includes Gina McKee, Shvrone Marks, Fenella Wologar, Don Gilet, Deka Walmsley, Charlie Hardwick, Barbara Marten, Juliet Stevenson, Chetna Pandya, and Asif Khan.
Original music by Ben and Max Ringham
Recorded by Alisdair McGregor. Sound design was by Lucinda Mason Brown with Ben and Max Ringham
First broadcast on BBC RADIO 4 / August 2022 and available on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001b4fs
EXEMPLAR was produced by Polly Thomas and Jade Lewis
— a Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds and Radio 4
2023 ARIA Awards finalist
LOVE ACROSS THE AGES
Shahid Iqbal Khan’s BBC Radio 4 afternoon drama debut tackles love between two Muslim men from Iran in 815 through to modern day Bradford using classical poet Abu Nawas as our guide, our Cupid.
Nickie Miles-Wildin director and Polly Thomas executive producer
— a Naked Production for BBC Radio 4
2022 ARIA Silver Award * best original single drama * You & Me, by Dan Rebellato, produced by Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore
2022 BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist * best original single drama * You & Me, by Dan Rebellato, produced by Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore; and
* best use of sound* Killer , dramatised by Dan Rebellato, sound design Eloise Whitmore produced by Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore
2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards * commendation: Year of Reinvention * Connections by Michael Southan, Anita Karla Kelly, Leanne Allen, Kathryn Golding and Shahid Iqbal Khan, script advisor Sarah Daniels
“The judges wish to commend the rapid turnaround of five short pieces, supported by the Audio Content Fund, which had dramas played out on community radio stations, written by and mainly starring people with disabilities. Dealing with isolation in lockdown and finding ways to make connections, these were performed with vivacity and a lightness of touch. Re-invention doesn’t have to be the sole preserve of the big players at the BBC.”
2020 Tinniswood Award * best radio drama * Death of a Matriarch by Tanika Gupta
2019 BBC Audio Award • best adaptation • A Tale of Two Cities dram by Ayeesha Menon
2019 Imison Award • best new audio drama • Of a Lifetime by Lulu Raczka
2018 New York Festivals Radio Award • gold radio : best drama special • The Hours dram by Frances Byrnes
2018 Whickers World Foundation RAFA Award • shortlisted with Alex Bulmer for RPA
[ Alex Bulmer and Polly Thomas, still from The Whickers RAFA Pitch 2018 video, courtesy The Whickers ]
2017 Audio Production Award • bronze : best drama producer
2017 ARIA Award • shortlisted : best factual programme • Between the Ears : Sounds Like She
2017 BBC Audio Awards • best adaptation • Emile Zola : Blood Sex and Money dram Dan Rebellato
2016 BBC Audio Award • best radio drama • Emile Zola : Blood Sex and Money dram Dan Rebellato season
2015 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Olwen Wymark Theatre Encouragement Award
2014 Radio Production Award • silver : best radio drama producer
2013 BBC Audio Award • best series • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
2013 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • My Boy by Laura Lomas
2010 Radio Academy Award • best radio drama producer
2010 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • Divided We Fall (radio) by Mike Harris
2009 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • shortlisted • Cavalry by Dan Rebellato
2004 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • Coming Down the Mountain (radio) by Mark Haddon
2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards * commendation: Year of Reinvention * Connections by Michael Southan, Anita Karla Kelly, Leanne Allen, Kathryn Golding and Shahid Iqbal Khan, script advisor Sarah Daniels
“The judges wish to commend the rapid turnaround of five short pieces, supported by the Audio Content Fund, which had dramas played out on community radio stations, written by and mainly starring people with disabilities. Dealing with isolation in lockdown and finding ways to make connections, these were performed with vivacity and a lightness of touch. Re-invention doesn’t have to be the sole preserve of the big players at the BBC.”
2020 Tinniswood Award * best radio drama * Death of a Matriarch by Tanika Gupta
2019 BBC Audio Award • best adaptation • A Tale of Two Cities dram by Ayeesha Menon
2019 Imison Award • best new audio drama • Of a Lifetime by Lulu Raczka
2018 New York Festivals Radio Award • gold radio : best drama special • The Hours dram by Frances Byrnes
2018 Whickers World Foundation RAFA Award • shortlisted with Alex Bulmer for RPA
[ Alex Bulmer and Polly Thomas, still from The Whickers RAFA Pitch 2018 video, courtesy The Whickers ]
2017 Audio Production Award • bronze : best drama producer
2017 ARIA Award • shortlisted : best factual programme • Between the Ears : Sounds Like She
2017 BBC Audio Awards • best adaptation • Emile Zola : Blood Sex and Money dram Dan Rebellato
2016 BBC Audio Award • best radio drama • Emile Zola : Blood Sex and Money dram Dan Rebellato season
2015 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Olwen Wymark Theatre Encouragement Award
2014 Radio Production Award • silver : best radio drama producer
2013 BBC Audio Award • best series • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
2013 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • My Boy by Laura Lomas
2010 Radio Academy Award • best radio drama producer
2010 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • Divided We Fall (radio) by Mike Harris
2009 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • shortlisted • Cavalry by Dan Rebellato
2004 Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • drama : bronze • Coming Down the Mountain (radio) by Mark Haddon