Here are photos of the ten nominees for the 2021 Charles Parker Prize, on a Zoom call with Sara Parker (top right).  A video of this call will be broadcast on Facebook live on Friday 16 April, and the five …
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On this anniversary of Charles Parker’s birth it is our pleasure to announce the top ten prize nominees for this year’s Charles Parker Prize. Congratulations to (in no particular order): The Bathing Place – Hunter Charlton, Goldsmiths, University of London …
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A special online event took place on Tuesday 8 December 2020 to mark the 40th anniversary of Charles Parker’s death and launch the annual student radio feature prize named in his honour – The Charles Parker Prize  The event focused …
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There will be a special online event on Tuesday 8 December 2020 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Charles Parker’s death and launch the annual student radio feature prize named in his honour – The Charles Parker Prize  The event …
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There will be a special online event on Tuesday 8 December 2020 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Charles Parker’s death and launch the annual student radio feature prize named in his honour – The Charles Parker Prize  Charles Parker was …
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New Storytellers on Radio 4 Five short documentary pieces from this year’s Charles Parker Prizewinners will be broadcast at 1:45pm each day Monday 10 to Friday 14 August on BBC Radio 4.  Each episode in the series will be available …
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Charles Parker Prize. The Gold Award, as announced on 3 April, goes to Alexandra Morgan.  The other four prizewinners are Gabriel Green, Lewis Harrower, Charlotte Hurrell and Richard Queree. The …
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On Tuesday 7 April the Gold Prizewinner Sian Medford wrote on Facebook: “Live now on BBC Radio 4  is my award winning 2019 Charles Parker Prize radio documentary ‘A Young Sel In A Small Town’.   A year ago today winning …
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Owing to the current Covid-19 emergency, the full results of the Charles Parker Award 2020 cannot at this moment be published.  As last year, BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting the five top submissions in their New Storytellers strand later …
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On Tuesday 31 March, the 2019 Charles Parker Prizewinner Rhys Gunter tweeted: “Right now on BBC Radio 4 you can hear a replay of my documentary, ‘My Life After Grenfell’.   The surivivors of Grenfell have been through things that words …
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