Charles Parker Prize

The Charles Parker Prize is awarded each year for the best student audio feature. The prize is open to any student at UK Further or Higher Education establishments and also those who have attended an accredited media training course

The Charles Parker Prize 2024
for the Best Student Audio Feature

The Charles Parker Awards – named in honour of one of radio’s greatest documentary pioneers – have established an unparalleled reputation for excellence in radio and audio feature production by young people, and many of our winners have gone on to carve out successful professional careers in radio and audio production. 

The Trust is delighted to announce that the judging panel for the Prize has now chosen ten nominees, who will be invited to the award ceremony at the core of the Charles Parker Day 2024 which will take place in Liverpool University on Friday 22 March.  The final decision on which five features will be selected for broadcast will be made by BBC Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor, Hugh Levinson, and will be announced on the Day.

Here are the ten nominated features:

All Night Long - Darya Kalsi (Goldsmiths)
A Recipe for Recovery - Anna de Wolff Evans (UCL)
Fight Fair - Libby Liburd (UCL)
Friends of the Wall - Evan Green (Goldsmiths)
Full Circle - Amy Bartlett (UWE)
RE:Connection - Chantal R (UCL)
The National Language of Nowhere - Naomi Bloomstein (UCL) 
The Outcast Dead and Alive - Grace Reeve (Goldsmiths)
The Slidey Rock - James Bonney (In the Dark)
The Tale of the two Spoons - Irene Dani (In the Dark)

The Gold Award winner and the four other winning features will be commissioned by the BBC through the independent radio production company Soundscape Productions, co-ordinators of the Charles Parker Prize since 2010, and will be broadcast in the BBC Radio 4 New Storytellers strand during the summer.

See below for previous winners.