The winners have been crowned at the 2025 Audio Production Awards on a spectacular night at the BFI on London's South Bank.
The APAs, organised by AudioUK (the body dedicated to advancing the podcast and audio industry), celebrate outstanding achievement in podcasting and audio across a huge range of content including; podcasts, audiobooks, sound design, radio, presenting and more.
This year’s winners include the team at Fix Radio behind The Bald Builders Breakfast who won gold in the Entertainment category and newcomers to the APAs, Becky and Ben Saer who won in Ensemble Cast/Presenting Team for their podcast, Becky and Ben’s Fertility Spotlight. The highly competitive Drama and Fiction award went to the production team at Penny4 for their work on supernatural thriller podcast Up in Smoke and the team at We Are Grape took home the Music category for Pete Tong's Essential History Of Dance.
Three new categories were introduced for 2025. Wajid Yaseen and Steve Urquhart (Modus Arts) took gold in the hugely popular History category for Tape Letters Scotland, a project shining a light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960-1980. The team at RAW/Audible won in True Crime for Cursed, presented by Femi Oke, who also picked up gold for Presenter/Host. The QueerAF podcast & Trans+ History Week won the Changemaker Award for a 6 part series of mini-documentaries about gender-diverse communities throughout history at a pivotal time.
In the new talent categories, Scout Tzofiya Bolton (Prison Radio Association) won the New Voice title and Mia Thornton (BBC Sounds Audio Lab/Reform Radio) took home the gold for New Producer.
Bella Soames (DMG Media) was crowned Producer of the Year, Prison Radio Association was named Production Company of the Year, and Fix Radio took home Publisher/Network of the Year. The AudioUK Award was presented to the team at Crossed Wires Festival in recognition of their outstanding contribution to championing the UK podcast and audio industry.
At AudioUK, we are the industry body dedicated to advancing the podcast and audio industry, by fostering innovation, supporting creators and businesses, and driving both commercial and creative growth.
The APAs exemplify the brilliance of the industry - whether you are a big business or an independent creator, there is a place for you to be celebrated, and to celebrate, together. Congratulations to everyone who entered and to all who won at the APAs this year. Entering can often be the hardest step, and you should all be incredibly proud.
Thank you to our lead sponsor, Audible; to our Pay What You Can scheme partners, Amazon Music; and to all our excellent media partners and category sponsors. Thank you to the AudioUK Board and executive. But most of all, thank you to the amazing team behind these awards, led by the indefatigable Katie Banham. If you see them, buy them a drink.
The opportunity in this industry is like nothing I have seen before, it is there for the taking, so act quickly, and act well.
Chloe Straw, CEO of AudioUK
The full list of winners is as follows:
Entertainment
GOLD - Jack Edwards, Travis Glossop, Demi Bell, Brogan Hubber and Toby Penman - Fix Radio
SILVER - Ewan Newbigging-Lister - JamPot Productions
BRONZE - Katie Boden - TBI Media
Branded Content
GOLD - Natalie Steed - Rhubarb Rhubarb
SILVER - Sam Taylor - Prison Radio Association
BRONZE - Podcast Team - National Trust
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Ollie Guillou - OG Podcasts & The Guernsey Alzheimer's Association
Little Ears
GOLD - Cole Stopnik - Independent Podcaster
SILVER - Laura Hyde - Chalk & Blade
BRONZE - Jack Whitney, Chloe McLaren, James Trusson, Adam Devenney, Kathleen Moroney, Polly Evans, Ravina Bajwa and Georgie Britton - Natural History Museum, Forever Audio and Tonies
Arts and Culture Sponsored by London Podcast Festival
GOLD - Chris Mitchell - Breaking Atoms and Sumit Sharma - Unedited
SILVER - Tony Phillips and Axel Kacoutié - Sea Salt and Mango
BRONZE - Sam Tyler - Freelance
Lifestyle and Society
GOLD - Suzi Dale & Micky Curling - Story Publishing
SILVER - Laura Grimshaw and Jon Holmes - unusual
BRONZE - Hugh Sheehan - BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reduced Listening
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Krishna Murali - The Fourth Bookmark, Independent Podcast
New Voice sponsored by BBC Sounds
GOLD - Scout Tzofiya Bolton - Prison Radio Association
SILVER - Dr. Emma Nagouse - Lead Mojo Productions
BRONZE - Naomi Bloomstein - Freelance
Comedy
GOLD - Jon Holmes - unusual
SILVER - Ollie Wilson, Charlie Murrell, Nia Deo, Rahnee Prescod - Sony Music Podcasts
BRONZE - Lauren Mackay - BBC Scotland
Audiobook
GOLD - Kate MacDonald - Freelance
SILVER - Rosemary O’Dowd - Penguin Random House
BRONZE - Liam Gerrard - Raconteurs Audio
Drama and Fiction
GOLD - Guy Larsen, Cambria Bailey-Jones, Gabriela Jones and Dan Pugsley - Penny4
SILVER - Emma Stephens & Bernard P Achampong - Unedited
BRONZE - Nicolas Jackson - Afonica
Factual/Documentary sponsored by Great Big Story
GOLD - Bella Soames - DMG Media
SILVER - Chalk & Blade/ Audible
BRONZE - Timur Dzhafarov and Cicely Fell - Falling Tree Productions
History
GOLD - Wajid Yaseen and Steve Urquhart - Modus Arts
SILVER - Joe Dunthorne and Eleanor McDowall - Falling Tree Productions
BRONZE - Hugh Sheehan - BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reduced Listening
Sound Design
GOLD - Scout Tzofiya Bolton, Andrew Wilkie, Ellen Orchard, Micky Curling and Phil Maguire - Prison Radio Association
SILVER - Phoebe McIndoe - Falling Tree Productions
BRONZE - Esa Williams - RAW/Audible
Music sponsored by Morley Radio
GOLD - Matt Healy, Katie Fox, Jojo Jones, Joe Gardner, Rachel Barton and Pete Tong - We Are Grape
SILVER - Lady Unchained and Arthur Hagues - Prison Radio Association
BRONZE - Silas Gray - Reduced Listening
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Tom Whalley - Freelance
Changemaker Award sponsored by The Podcast Show
GOLD - QueerAF podcast with Trans+ History Week
SILVER - Wild Tales - National Trust
BRONZE - Tommy Kennedy, Claire Offley and Fran Reynolds - Carousel
Narrator
GOLD - Charlotte Ritchie - Nosy Crow
SILVER - Ella Kenion - Bonnier Books UK
BRONZE - Poppy Mae Barrett - HarperCollins Publishers
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Maxim Reston - White House Sound/Hodder & Stoughton
Presenter/Host sponsored by Everybody Media
GOLD - Femi Oke - RAW/Audible
SILVER - Joe Dunthorne - Falling Tree Productions
BRONZE - Jerry Brotton - Whistledown Productions
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Krishna Murali - The Fourth Bookmark, Independent Podcast
News/Politics
GOLD - Ruth Abrahams, Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes - Project Citizen
SILVER - Christopher Pitt, Stephen Carroll, Caroline Hepker, Tiwa Adebayo and James Woolcock - Bloomberg
BRONZE - Edward Drummond - The Times
Sports
GOLD - Andrew Wilkie, Faye Dunn, Phil Maguire and Paula Harriott - Prison Radio Association
SILVER - Chris Browning-Brant, Christian Hewgill, Katie Osborne and Jamie Smith - Formula 1
BRONZE - Sophie Penney and Adonis Pratsides - Global
True Crime
GOLD - RAW/Audible
SILVER - Rima Ahmed, Luke de Costa and Luke Eldridge - BBC Sounds
BRONZE - Carl Miller, Caroline Thornham and Tom Wright - Novel
Ensemble Cast/Presenting Team
GOLD - Becky and Ben Saer
SILVER - Zak and Jules - Prison Radio Association
BRONZE - Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson, Harriet Harman and Jess Phillips - Sky News
New Producer sponsored by Amazon Music
GOLD - Mia Thornton - BBC Sounds Audio Lab / Reform Radio
SILVER - Marnie Duke - Transmission Roundhouse
BRONZE - Katie Fox - We Are Grape
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Riham Moussa - Freelance
Producer of the Year sponsored by Audible
GOLD - Bella Soames - DMG Media
SILVER - Andrew Wilkie - Prison Radio Association
BRONZE - Jack Edwards- Fix Radio
AudioUK Award
Crossed Wires Festival
Production Company of the Year sponsored by Aiir
GOLD - Prison Radio Association
SILVER - Bespoken Media
BRONZE - Falling Tree Productions
Publisher or Network of the Year sponsored by BetterHelp
GOLD - Fix Radio
SILVER - Resonance
BRONZE - Goalhanger
A huge congratulations to all the winners and nominees, we're already looking forward to next year's event!