The BBC Audio Drama Awards Return For A Third Year

Entries are open from today for the third BBC Audio Drama Awards which celebrate the exceptional talent and vibrancy of audio drama.

Makers of audio drama, both for the BBC and other broadcasters, analogue, digital and online are being called upon to submit their entries for this year. The BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014 will cover audio dramas' first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2012 and 31 October 2013 or first uploaded/published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. The closing date for submissions is midnight on Friday 11 October 2013. 

The awards pay tribute to the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and are intended to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in the genre.

In addition, for the first time, listeners will be able to vote for their favourite audio drama through the Radio Times Readers’ Award.

The BBC is delighted also to be joining forces for a third time with the Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain to announce and celebrate the winners of this year’s Imison Award for best original radio drama by a writer new to radio, and the Tinniswood Award for best original radio drama script.

Last year’s star-studded event, hosted by David Tennant, saw Andrew Scott take home the award for Best Actor, Michelle Fairley win Best Actress and Murray Gold receive the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2013 for Best Radio Drama Script. Believe It! starring Richard Wilson, David Tennant and Arabella Weir won the Best Scripted Comedy award.Among those presenting the awards were Lenny Henry, Maxine Peake, Stephen Mangan, Penelope Wilton and Stephen Tompkinson.

Short-listed entries will be announced on Monday 6 Jan 2014 and the winners revealed at a ceremony to be held on 26 January 2014 in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

This year, the award categories open for nominations are:

• Best Original Audio Drama (Single Play)
• Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)
• Best Audio Drama (Adaptation)
• Best Actor in an Audio Drama
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama
• Best Supporting Actor in an Audio Drama
• Best Supporting Actress in an Audio Drama
• Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama
• Best Scripted Comedy Drama (script award)
• Best Scripted Comedy with a Live Audience (script award)
• Best Online/Non-Broadcast

Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, says: “I am delighted that these inspiring awards will be running for their third year. They celebrate the creativity, range and popularity of a unique genre which we do especially well in this country. This year is likely to be one of the most hotly contested after a period of such strong, top-quality drama. I’m excited to see just which dramas make the shortlist.”

David Tennant would be eligible for a Best Actor Nomination for his role in Every Seventh Wave, broadcast on the 14th February.

Source: BBC Media Centre

Photos: David Tennant Hosts The BBC Audio Drama Awards

David Tennant hosted the BBC Audio Drama Awards at Broadcasting House in London last night. Photos have now started to appear from the event, which saw the likes of Vicky McClure, Andrew Scott and David Troughton receiving honours for their contributions to audio drama last year.Two productions that David worked on were honoured: Murray Gold received the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script for Kafka The Musical while Believe It! won the Best Scripted Comedy section.

Speaking back in 2011 at the launch of the first awards, David said:
"The quality of our radio drama is one of the things that makes me proud to be British. Acting on the radio is challenging, inspiring, delicate and always a privilege. Radio drama is often overlooked and undervalued next to its showier younger siblings on the television and in the cinema, and yet it is on the wireless that so many important and brilliant talents have been discovered and nurtured. I am delighted radio drama is being celebrated in this way."

Of last night's awards, Alison Hindell, Head of Audio Drama, BBC said: 
“It’s fantastic that the BBC is underlining its commitment to the unique genre of audio drama with these awards.  The fact that millions of people listen every day says something about how special it is and this evening is a wonderful way to celebrate the many different talents, both well-known and those at the start of their careers, that go into creating the programmes.”

The event was packed with celebrity guests and presenters, including Lenny Henry, Penelope Wilton, Stephen Mangan and Nicholas Parsons. David was pictured with another former Doctor Who star, Sylvester McCoy and also with the acting Director General of the BBC, Tim Davie

For a full list of winners click here

This year, over 180 entries were received for the BBC Audio Drama Awards. The BBC will be rebroadcasting some of the winning audio dramas again, including On It, Do you Like Banana, Comrades? and The Grapes of Wrath on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Radio 3 from Wednesday 13 February.

Sources : The Mail Online and BBC Media Centre

Believe It! And Kafka Among Winners In The BBC Audio Drama Awards

David Tennant was the host of the second BBC Audio Drama Awards tonight. The awards pay tribute to the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and are intended to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in the genre. David was among an illustrious guest list at the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London, which also included Maxine Peake, Stephen Mangan, Andrew Davies, Sian Phillips, Nicholas Parsons and fellow Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

Two productions that David himself was involved with were nominated this year and happily there was award success for both. Screenwriter Andrew Davies announced that the winner of the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Script was Murray Gold for Kafka The Musical, which was recorded starring David Tennant as Franz Kafka for broadcast in 2011. Nicholas Parsons then presented the Best Scripted Comedy award to Jon Canter for his spoof autobiography series Believe It! which starred Richard Wilson, Arabella Weir and John Sessions alongside David.


Full list of winners

Best Audio Drama (Single play)

Presented by Lenny Henry

·         WINNER: On It by Tony Pitts, produced by Sally Harrison, Woolyback Productions for Radio 4

·         Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland for Radio 4

·         Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

Presented by Patricia Cumper

·         WINNER: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, abridged by Helen Meller, produced by Polly Thomas, Somethin’ Else Productions for Radio 4

·         The Mumbai Chuzzlewits dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

·         Pink Mist by Owen Sheers, produced by Tim Dee, BBC Bristol for Radio 4

Best Actor in an Audio Drama

Presented by Penelope Wilton

·         WINNER: Andrew Scott in Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland Drama for Radio 4

·         Henry Goodman in James Joyce’s Ulysses, dramatised by Robin Brooks, produced by Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

·         Richard Johnson in Tennyson and Edison by David Pownall, produced by Peter Kavanagh, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 3

Best Actress in an Audio Drama

Presented by Stephen Tompkinson

·         WINNER: Michelle Fairley in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild, produced by Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland for Radio 4

·         Lorraine Ashbourne in Seven Scenes by Nicola Baldwin, produced by Celia De Wolff, Pier Productions for Radio 3

·         Fenella Woolgar in An American Rose by Charlotte Jones, produced by Claire Grove, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Best Supporting Actor in an Audio Drama

Presented by Maxine Peake

·         WINNER: David Troughton in Singles and Doublets by Martyn Wade, produced by Cherry Cookson, Rocket House Productions for Radio 3

·         David Crellin in Craven by Amelia Bullmore, produced by Justine Potter, Red Productions for Radio 4

·         Carl Prekopp in Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Best Supporting Actress in an Audio Drama

Presented by Stephen Mangan

·         WINNER: Vicky McClure in Kicking the Air by Christine Murphy, produced by Heather Larmour, BBC Northern Ireland for Radio 4

·         Niamh Cusack in The Man with Wings by Rachel Joyce, produced by Gordon House, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

·         Gillian Kearney in Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts, produced by Susan Roberts, BBC North for Radio 4

Best Adaptation from Another Source

Presented by Nick Dear

·         WINNER: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, dramatised by Tanika Gupta, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 3

·         The Mumbai Chuzzlewits by Charles Dickens, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

·         Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance written by Robert M. Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama

Presented by Sian Phillips

·         WINNER: The Cruel Sea, written by Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

·         The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, dramatised by Jane Rogers, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 4

·         Use it or Lose It by Peter Blegvad, produced by Iain Chambers, Falling Tree for Radio 3

Best Scripted Comedy

Presented by Nicolas Parsons

·         WINNER: Believe It! by Jon Canter, produced by Clive Brill, Pacificus Productions for Radio 4

·         Alice’s Wunderland by Alice Lowe, produced by Sam Bryant, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4

·         I, Regress by Matt Berry, produced by Sam Bryant, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4

Best Online Only Audio Drama

Presented by Joseph Millson

·         WINNER: Above and Below written and produced by Daniel Macnaughton, for Aboveandbelowseries.co.uk

·         The Minister of Chance by Dan Freeman, produced by Dan Freeman, Radio Static for ministerofchance.com

·         Varanasi by Silva Semerciyan, produced by Graham Pountney, Screentest Productions for varanasi.theradioplay.com

The Imison Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script 

Presented by Andrew Davies

·         WINNER: Do You Like Banana, Comrades? by Csaba Székely

·         The Day We Caught the Train by Nick Payne

·         The Takeover by Paul Sellar

The Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script 

Presented by Andrew Davies

·         WINNER: Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold

·         Angarrack by Christopher William Hill

·         Like Minded People by David Eldridge

The BBC Audio Drama awards are not broadcast on radio or TV, so many grateful thanks to all those who tweeted information from the ceremony.

David Tennant Hosts The BBC Audio Drama Awards This Evening

David Tennant is due to be taking up compère duties again tonight for the second annual BBC Audio Drama Awards. David hosted the inaugural awards last year where he was also named Best Actor in an Audio Drama for his role in Kafka The Musical.The ceremony will be held in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London.

Two of David's audio projects are up for awards this year:

Believe It! -written by Jon Canter and produced by Clive Brill of Pacificus Productions. The comedy series starred Richard Wilson, David Tennant, Arabella Weir and John Sessions and purported to be based on Wilson's own life. The show is nominated for Best Scripted Comedy.

Kafka The Musical - written by Murray Gold and produced and directed by Jeremy Mortimer. David Tennant stars as Franz Kafka, who finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The judges from the Society of Authors and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain said: "Kafka The Musical genuinely took the listener somewhere different, maybe somewhere that doesn't exist - riffing off Kafkaesque surrealism to create its own new brand of surreal radio". The drama is nominated for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script.

Read the full BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist here.

Keep up with all the news from the ceremony tomorrow evening using the Twitter hashtag #audiodrama or by following @Studio60A

David Tennant To Host Radio Awards

The Society of Authors have tweeted today that David Tennant may be hosting the BBC Audio Drama Awards for the second time later this month. They also suggest that he will be presenting the Tinniswood award along with screenwriter Andrew Davies.

David has yet to be confirmed as compere; his appearance depends upon whether other filming commitments allow.

The BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 27th January at Broadcasting House in London. Click here for the full list of nominees.

Audio Drama Award Nominations For Two David Tennant Projects

The BBC Media Centre have published the shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 and two projects that David Tennant has been involved in are nominated. Believe It!, the comedy autobiography starring Richard Wilson and featuring David as the actor's younger self, is nominated for Best Scripted Comedy while Murray Gold's Kafka: The Musical is shortlisted for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script. David won the Best Actor Award last year for his role as Franz Kafka in Gold's play.


The BBC say:

The shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 has been announced this morning. The awards pay tribute to the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and are intended to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in the genre.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony to be held on Sunday 27 January 2013 in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House in central London.

The BBC is delighted also to be joining forces for a second time with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors for this year’s Imison Award for best original radio drama by a writer new to radio, and the Tinniswood Award for best original radio drama.

In its inaugural year, the BBC Drama Awards 2012 - the first awards of its kind - received more than 150 entries from dramas created across the country and internationally. Winners included David Tennant for Best Actor, acclaimed writer Katie Hims for Best Audio Drama, Andrew Scott for Best Supporting Actor and writer Hugh Hughes for Best Scripted Comedy Drama. This year, more than 180 entries were received.

The BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist for each category is:

Best Audio Drama (Single play)

(Judges: Jane Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Ben Stephenson, Vanessa Thorpe)

• Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland for Radio 4
• On It by Tony Pitts, produced by Sally Harrison, Woolyback Productions for Radio 4
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

(Judges: Patricia Cumper, Will Gompertz, Lord Hall of Birkenhead)

• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heiner Muller, abridged by Helen Meller, produced by Polly Thomas, Somethin’ Else Productions for Radio 4
• The Mumbai Chuzzlewits dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4
• Pink Mist by Owen Sheers, produced by Tim Dee, BBC Bristol for Radio 4

Best Actor in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Andrew Davies, Sarah Vine & Nina Wadia)

• Henry Goodman in James Joyce’s Ulysses, dramatised by Robin Brooks, produced by Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4
• Richard Johnson in Tennyson and Edison by David Pownall, produced by Peter Kavanagh, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 3
• Andrew Scott in Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland Drama for Radio 4

Best Actress in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Baz Bamigboye, Nick Kent, Stephen Tompkinson)

• Lorraine Ashbourne in Seven Scenes by Nicola Baldwin, produced by Celia De Wolff, Pier Productions for Radio 3
• Michelle Fairley in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild, produced by Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland for Radio 4
• Fenella Woolgar in An American Rose by Charlotte Jones, produced by Claire Grove, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Best Supporting Actor in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Matt Hemley, Razia Iqbal, Imogen Stubbs)

• David Crellin in Craven by Amelia Bullmore, produced by Justine Potter, Red Productions for Radio 4
• Carl Prekopp in Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4
• David Troughton in Singles and Doublets by Martyn Wade, produced by Cherry Cookson, Rocket House Productions for Radio 3

Best Supporting Actress in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Daniel Evans, Louise Jury, Julie Myerson]

• Niamh Cusack in The Man with Wings by Rachel Joyce, produced by Gordon House, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4
• Gillian Kearney in Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts, produced by Susan Roberts, BBC North for Radio 4
• Vicky McClure in Kicking the Air by Christine Murphy, produced by Heather Larmour, BBC Northern Ireland for Radio 4

Best Adaptation from Another Source

(Judges: Sebastian Born, Alan Brodie, Susannah Clapp)

• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, dramatised by Tanika Gupta, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 3
• The Mumbai Chuzzlewits by Charles Dickens, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance written by Robert M. Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Kevin Brew, John Hardy, Jane Thynne)

• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, dramatised by Jane Rogers, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 4
• The Cruel Sea, written by Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4
• Use it or Lose It by Peter Blegvad, produced by Iain Chambers, Falling Tree for Radio 3

Best Scripted Comedy

(Judges: Hannah Begbie, Bruce Dessau, Christopher William Hill, Alexei Sayle)

• Alice Lowe’s Wunderland by Alice Lowe, produced by Sam Bryant, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4
• Believe It! by Jon Canter, produced by Clive Brill, Pacificus Productions for Radio 4
• I, Regress by Matt Berry, produced by Sam Bryant, BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4

Best Online Only Audio Drama

(Judges: Viv Gardner, Sofie Mason, Stephen Wright)

• Above and Below written and produced by Daniel Macnaughton, for Aboveandbelowstories.co.uk
• The Minister of Chance by Dan Freeman, produced by Dan Freeman for Radio Static
• Varanasi by Silva Semerciyan, produced by Graham Pountney, Screentest Productions for varanasitheradioplay.com

The shortlist for the Imison Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script by a new writer is:

(Society of Author’s Broadcasting Committee: Alison Joseph (Chair), Ruth Brandon, Lucy Caldwell, Christopher William Hill, Michelle Lipton, Karl Sabbagh, John Taylor, Colin Teevan, Jane Thynne and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal)

• The Day We Caught the Train by Nick Payne
• Do You Like Banana, Comrades? by Csaba Székely
• The Takeover by Paul Sellar
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The shortlist for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script is:

(Judges: Meg Davis, Jonathan Myerson, Tim Stimpson)

• Angarrack by Christopher William Hill
• Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold
• Like Minded People by David Eldridge

BBC Audio Drama Awards Return For Second Year

The BBC Audio Drama Awards return for a second year to celebrate the exceptional talent and vibrancy of audio drama, with entries open from today.

The awards pay tribute to the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and are intended to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in the genre.

Following on from last year’s hugely successful ceremony, hosted by David Tennant, the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 is once again calling for entries from all makers of audio drama, both for the BBC and other broadcasters, analogue, digital and online.

The BBC is delighted also to be joining forces for a second time with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors to announce and celebrate the winners of this year’s Imison Award for best original radio drama by a writer new to radio and the Tinniswood Award for best original radio drama.

In its inaugural year, the BBC Drama Awards 2012 - the first awards of its kind - received more than 150 entries from dramas created across the country and internationally. Winners included David Tennant for Best Actor, acclaimed writer Katie Hims for Best Audio Drama, Andrew Scott for the Best Supporting Actor and writer Hugh Hughes for Best Scripted Comedy Drama.

Among those presenting the awards were Johnny Vegas, David Edgar, June Whitfield, Richard Wilson, Don Warrington, Niamh Cusack, Bertie Carvel, Nina Wadia and Julie Myerson.

Short-listed entries will be announced on 7 January 2013 and the winners revealed at a ceremony to be held on 27 January 2013 in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

The award categories are:

• Best Audio Drama (Single Play)
• Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)
• Best Actor in an Audio Drama
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama
• Best Supporting Actor in an Audio Drama
• Best Supporting Actress in an Audio Drama
• Best Adaptation from Another Source
• Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama
• Best Scripted Comedy
• Best Online Only Audio Drama

Tim Davie, Director of BBC Audio & Music, says: “After the success of last year, I am very proud that BBC Radio will continue to host the awards for a second year. There is so much outstanding and innovative drama on radio, and it deserves to be recognised.”

David Edgar, President of the Writers' Guild, says: "It was a privilege to give out the Imison and Tinniswood awards for radio drama as part of the BBC's Audio Drama Awards at Broadcasting House. Writing radio drama can be a lonely affair, and it was wonderful to be part of such a public celebration of one of the most enduring and effective forms of drama. It's terrific news that the BBC are bringing the awards back for another year."

Lenny Henry, actor and writer, says: “Radio drama rocks! A creative mind can make drama happen in any location, at any time period whether at the beginning of time or at the end of the world or just five minutes ago at the Slaughtered Lamb on Ilkley moor. Douglas Adams used to say on radio the sets and costumes are much better because they were in our minds - I'd like to second that!”

Johnny Vegas, actor and comedian, says: “Radio drama is a rich source of storytelling that treats the imagination rather than cheating it. It is a well-documented fact that visual lie-detection doesn’t work. Closing your eyes and listening is the surest method when searching for the truth. In an age where visual manipulation is at the heart of most television or film based drama, radio continues to trust the listener to paint their own pictures, to draw inspiration from their own mind’s eye. Whilst other media continue with technological advances in a desperate attempt to fill in the gaps, radio remains, quite simply and beautifully, CGI for the soul.”

Dame Harriet Walter, actress, says: “Radio drama is often underrated for precisely the reasons that make it miraculous. It is experienced in privacy and doesn't get the visual splash of movie and theatre promotion. But what an achievement to create worlds, atmospheres, and people we care about with nothing but words and sounds. To take a listener from kitchen sink to mountain tops, back in history or into the future, to place fictitious strangers deeply in our hearts and heads within 30-60 minutes. These awards are vital to boost radio drama to the status it deserves.”

Fiona Shaw, actress, says: “For actors, radio drama allows for a free range without public scrutiny and casting restrictions: the ugly can become beautiful, the untidy neat, the weak powerful; the actors can become their true selves given free rein on radio, their best ambitious selves.”

The closing date for submissions is midnight on 13th October 2012. Further details are available online at: http://bbc.in/audiodrama2013

Thanks to the BBC.

David Wins At The BBC Audio Drama Awards

David Tennant has just collected the Best Actor award at tonight's BBC Audio Drama Awards for his role in Murray Gold's Kafka The Musical!

David is also hosting the ceremony which is currently taking place at Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House.
To listen to David in his winning role please click here.

You can also listen to David's introduction at the awards below, thanks to @MsSilt and @savvyjustine
 

Photo credits  to @PaulMurphyX

David To Host BBC Audio Drama Awards Tonight

Tonight will see David Tennant hosting the first ever BBC Audio Drama Awards. The ceremony will be held at Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House in London. The awards are being recorded and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at a later date.

It'll be a busy night for David as he is also nominated for the Best Actor In An Audio Drama Award for Kafka The Musical in the awards.

The full list of nominees in David's category are as follows:

Best Actor in an Audio Drama
(Judges: Ian Brown, Lisa Campbell, Dame Harriet Walter CBE)
• Damian Lewis, Giovanni’s Room dramatised by Neil Bartlett
Producer: Turan Ali, Bona Broadcasting for Radio 3
• David Tennant, Kafka: The Musical by Murray Gold
Producer: Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 3
• Rory Kinnear, Flare Path by Terence Rattigan
Producer: Jeremy Herrin, Catherine Bailey Productions Ltd for Radio 3
• *Special Commendation* Tom Riley, Henry’s Demons by Patrick and Henry Cockburn
Producer: Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for Radio 4

The BBC Audio Drama Awards cover audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1st October 2010 and 30th September 2011 – or first uploaded/published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.

David Tennant Nominated In The First BBC Audio Drama Awards

David Tennant has been nominated as Best Actor for his role as Franz Kafka in Kafka: The Musical. The play, which was written and composed by Murray Gold, first aired on BBC Radio 3 at Easter 2011.

David will also be announcing the winners at a ceremony held on Sunday 29th January in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London.

To read the full shortlist of awards as announced by the BBC Media Centre, click here.