On 8th May the five winners of the 2026 Charles Parker Prize were announced by Hugh Levinson, BBC Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Speech Programmes.  The five winning features were broadcast in the New Storytellers Series on BBC Radio 4 in July and will continue to be available, as are the winning features from previous years. This year the judges were Talia Augustidis (former winner), Stephanie Billen, Mel Harris, Hugh Levinson, Khaliq Meer, and Simon Elmes (chair).  Here are the results and the judges’ citations for the five winners.