
Sian Medford, Gold Award Winner
The five winners of the Charles Parker Prize 2019 for the Best Student Radio Feature were announced at the Centenary Charles Parker Day at Bournemouth University on 5 April
BBC Radio 4 joined with the Charles Parker Awards to offer a broadcast slot on the network to each of the five winners. They were invited to collaborate with a coach drawn from some of the very best feature-makers working in radio in order to adapt their features for transmission on BBC Radio 4 in July and August 2019.
Student | Title of piece | Date and link |
Bruce Guthrie | The Flapper | 29 July |
Henry Stokoe | Kidnapped | 30 July |
Rosa Eaton | Beyond the Ballot | 31 July |
Rhys Gunter | My Life After Grenfell | 1 August |
Sian Medford (Gold Award) |
A Young Sel in a Small Town |
2 August |
Ten student features were nominated for the Centenary Prize: the other five finalists were featured in a programme broadcast on Radio 4 Extra on Sunday 28 July 2019. They are:
Student | Title of piece | University |
Eddie Scott | Involuntarily Celibate | Goldsmiths |
Faith Waddell | Make The Cut | Goldsmiths |
Sam Ross | Unwritten Letters | Sunderland |
Lucy Ryan | The Lonely Death of Janet Parker | Birmingham City |
Jordan Curtis Blyth | Where I was Born, Where I was Raised | Sunderland |
The Judges of this special centenary Charles Parker Prize were:
Jane Anderson – Radio Editor, Radio Times
Mohit Bakaya – Commissioning Editor, Factual, BBC Radio 4
Simon Elmes – Former Creative Director, BBC Radio Features
Sara Parker – Award-winning Radio Producer and Charles’s daughter
Philip Sellars – Editor, BBC Radio Documentaries Unit