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19.09.03

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks wins nineteen SWPA awards


Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks celebrated another successful year at last night's Spoken Word Awards ceremony hosted by Clive Anderson, picking up 19 awards in total - including 8 Gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze as well as Performer of the Year for Michael Palin's reading of Sahara.

Gold awards:

  • Publishing Initiative: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks Safeway Car Wash Promotion
  • Drama: Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
  • Drama: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
  • Non-Fiction: Sahara by Michael Palin, read by Michael Palin (unabridged)
  • Comedy/Humour: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary Special
  • Unabridged Modern Fiction: Spies by Michael Frayn, read by Martin Jarvis
  • Biography: A Moment Toward the End of the Play by Timothy West, read by Timothy West
  • Radio Times Readers' Choice: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary Special

Silver awards:

  • Unabridged Classic Fiction: The Graduate by Charles Webb, read by William Hope
  • Children's Age 6 & Over: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (full-cast dramatisation)
  • Unabridged Modern Fiction: Atonement by Ian McEwan, read by Carole Boyd
  • Radio Times Readers' Choice: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (full-cast dramatisation)

Bronze awards:

  • Abridgement: A History of Britain Vol.3 by Simon Schama, read by Timothy West (abridged by Sarah Kilgarriff)
  • Unabridged Classic Fiction: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, read by Stephen Thorne
  • Crime &Thriller: A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
  • Children's Age 6 & Over: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer, read by Philip Franks
  • Poetry: The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems, various readers
  • Biography: The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff, read by Sam Kelly


In addition, the Radio Times award for Best Male Performer of the year for non-fiction was awarded to Michael Palin for his reading of Sahara for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks.

A further Radio Times initiative was that, for the first time ever, readers had an opportunity to vote for their favourite from a shortlist of audiobooks - and the winner was Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Collection's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Anniversary Special. The team of Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Colin Sell were in attendance to take the award.


Jan Paterson, Publishing Director of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks, said:
"I was very proud of our publishing last night, as our titles came up again and again for awards. I am especially pleased that I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue won two awards for its 30th anniversary special release, and that Doctor Who - currently celebrating its 40th anniversary - should win with a new, original audio drama Death Comes to Time. It was also terrific to see that, of the four Publishing Initiative nominations, three were for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks marketing initiatives; congratulations to Steve Crickmer on winning the award for his Safeway Car Wash Promotion. Overall, the fact that we won so many awards - nineteen in total - is a tribute to the creativity and imagination both of our 'talent' and of our team at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audiobooks."

The awards are given by the Spoken Word Publisher's Association and judged by a panel of independent experts including journalists, producers, writers and retailers.




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