Finalists revealed

Milton Jones, Ken Cheng and Tudur Owen are among the finalists for for this year’s  BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Up for best long-form scripted comedy were the stand-up shows Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian and Tudur Owen: United Nations of Anglesey, as well as The Downing Street Doppelganger an historical ‘what-if’ written by Jim Poyser and starring John Thomson as the Prime Minister, and a music hall comedian who can impersonate him.

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! is up for best scripted comedy (sketch show) along with Jon Holmes’s satirical audio mash-up show The Skewer  and Please Use Other Door, a collection of ‘overheard conversations’ from writers new to radio created by Dead Ringers and Now Show producer Bill Dare; producer Bill Dare, BBC Studios,

Jones’s co-star, the Comedy Store Player Josie Lawrence, is also up for best supporting performance alongside Conleth Hill  and Matthew Gravelle. 

Meanwhile, Detectorists’ star  Toby Jones is up for best actor for his starring role in Radio 3’s adaptation of Molière’s French comic play  The Miser.

All the programmes in the comedy categories aired on Radio 4.

Winners will be revealed on Sunday March 19 at a ceremony at BBC Broadcasting House in Central London. A full list of nominees is here.

Published: 8 Feb 2023