Shortlist announced for 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards

Andrew Scott, Ian McKellen and Julian Rhind-Tutt have been nominated for best actor at the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Scott, who is nominated for Slipping by Claudine Toutoungi, is up against McKellen, for Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac and dramatised by Rose Treamin, and Rhind-Tutt, nominated for The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Nick Stafford.

In the best actress in an audio drama category, Aisling Loftus is nominated for Educator by Hayley Squires, alongside Charlotte Riley and Ellie Kendrick, who are nominated for Toutoungi’s Slipping and How to Say Goodbye Properly by EV Crowe respectively.

Meanwhile, Everyday Time Machines by Al Smith, Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel by Pjek Malinovski and Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts are all nominated for best original audio drama.

Elsewhere, the shortlist for best scripted comedy drama is made up of Believe It: Victor by John Canter, I’m a Believer, also by Canter and Marcy Kahan’s Lunch.

The awards will be announced at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House on February 1, and are judged by a panel including actors Imogen Stubbs and Nina Wadia, theatre director Nicholas Kent and The Stage’s news editor, Matt Hemley.

Full list of nominees:

Best original audio drama (single play)
Everyday Time Machines by Al Smith, produced by Sally Avens for Radio 3
Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel by Pejk Malinovski, produced by Pejk Malinovski for Radio 3
Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts, produced by Susan Roberts for Radio 4

Best audio drama (series or serial)
Ambiguous Loss by Michael Butt, produced by Toby Swift for Radio 4
Holding On To You by DL Weller, produced by Nadia Molinari for Radio 4
The Seventh Test by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden, produced by John Dryden and Nadir Khan for Radio 4

Best audio drama (adaptation)
Come to Grief adapted by Hannah Vincent, produced by Gordon House for Radio 4
Porcelain adapted by Ian Kershaw, produced by Susan Roberts for Radio 4
The Seventh Test adapted by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden, produced by John Dryden and Nadir Khan for Radio 4

Best actor in an audio drama
Andrew Scott in Slipping by Claudine Toutoungi, produced by Liz Webb for Radio 4
Ian McKellen in Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac, dramatised by Rose Tremain, produced by Gordon House for Radio 4
Julian Rhind-Tutt in The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Nick Stafford, produced by David Hunter for Radio 4

Best actress in an audio drama
Aisling Loftus in Educator by Hayley Squires, produced by Helen Perry for Radio 3
Charlotte Riley in Slipping by Claudine Toutoungi, produced by Liz Webb for Radio 4
Ellie Kendrick in How to Say Goodbye Properly by EV Crowe, produced by Abigail Le Fleming for Radio 4

Best supporting actor or actress in an audio drama
Michelle Phillips in Educator by Hayley Squires, produced by Helen Perry for Radio 3
Sian Phillips in Hide the Moon by Martyn Wade, produced by Marion Nancarrow for Radio 3
Toby Jones in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, dramatised by Charlotte Jones, produced by Sally Avens for Radio 4

Best debut performance
Alex Jordan in Frankenstein – The Modern Promtheus by Mary Shelley, dramatised by Jonathan Barnes for Big Fish Productions
Jade Matthew in A Kidnapping by Andy Mulligan, produced by John Dryden and Nadir Khan for Radio 4
Sam Hattersley in Magpie by Lee Mattinson, produced by Sharon Sephton for Radio 4

Best use of sound in an audio drama
The Boy at the Back by Juan Mayorga, sound design by Steve Bond, produced by Nicholas Jackson for Radio 3
The Exorcist by WP Blatty, dramatised by Robert Forrest, sound design by Gary Newman, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane for Radio 4
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, dramatised by Brian Sibley, sound design by Anne Bunting, produced by Gemma Jenkins for Radio 4

Best scripted comedy drama
Believe It: Victor by Jon Canter, produced by Clive Brill for Radio 4
I’m a Believer by Jon Canter, produced by Jonquil Panting for Radio 4
Lunch by Marcy Kahan, produced by Sally Avens for Radio 4

Best scripted comedy (studio audience)
The Brig Society by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell, produced by David Tyler for Radio 4
John Finnermore’s Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore, produced by Ed Morrish for Radio 4
Trodd En Bratt Say ‘Well Done You’ by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, produced by Ben Worsfield for Radio 4

Best online or non-broadcast audio drama
The Child by Sebastian Fitzek for Audible UK
Hood – The Scribe of Sherwood by Iain Meadows for Spiteful Puppet Entertainment
Survivors by Matt Fitton for Big Finish Productions

Imison Award for best radio drama script by a new writer
(Judges: Society of Author’s Broadcasting Committee)
How to Say Goodbye Properly by EV Crowe
Goodbye by Morwenna Banks
The Man in The Lift by Tom Connolly
Paris, Nana and Me by Caroline Horton

Tinniswood Radio Award for best radio drama script
(Judges: Sue Teddern, Amanda Whittington and Kate Chapman)
Goodbye by Morwenna Banks
The Good Listener by Fin Kennedy
Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts