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New York Awards Success

New York Awards Success

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JUNE 24th 2014

Cor blimey! Our first ‘own-brand’ original audio drama,SOMETIME NEVER, by Scott Harrison has won the NEW YORK AWARD for Best Drama (a radio/audio ‘Oscar’)…we are flabbergasted and amazed!

The New York Festival Awards recognise the best radio and audio work from around the world, with amazing productions going head to head to win the coveted and prestigious awards. Entries come from broadcasters on every continent, in every language and it is a real honour to go up against the finest producers in the world.

This is our first year entering the awards as Spokenworld Audio, although our MD (Neil Gardner) has won numerous New Yorks over the years for his radio productions. It is also our first ‘own-brand’ audio drama, our first attempt to forge a path away from the BBC, to prove you don’t have to be Radio 3 or 4 to be a drama producer/commissioner.

Sometime Never - recordingThis was a team effort from start to finish, and there is no praise high enough for the incredible skills and talent brought to the production by all involved.  SCOTT HARRISON wrote a beautiful and thrilling script (in 4 weeks, against a tight deadline!) that allowed the actors to really exercise their thespian chops. SIMON JONES and ROSALYN LANDOR brought their amazing acting talents and a whole shed-load of enthusiasm, bringing the characters to life and adding subtlety and flavour. Direction and sound-design by Neil Gardner pulled the whole thing together, creating light & dark and building a believable audio environment. And the cherry on the top was the sumptuous original score composed by virtuoso JAMES DUNLOP, lifting the entire production to new heights. Congrats to one and all!

So…that is audio drama #1 done, dusted and weighed down by trophies. Time to move on to drama #2…coming soon!

P.S. Congrats to our sister company LADBROKE PRODUCTIONS, who won the Gold New York Award for their documentary LIVING WITH MEMORY IN RWANDA. It seems only right that their last ever BBC radio production, after 30 years in the business, should be lauded with such a worthy award.

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We love audiobooks. There is something uniquely pleasurable in going about your day whilst the dulcet tones of a reader implant a story or factual nugget directly through your ear canal and into your mind. Audiobooks are not a new idea. Books have been read out loud since books were created, either in groups or radio dramas, and the audiobook is just an extension to that aural entertainment. The market is a huge one. I relate the purchase of audiobooks to the mission of buying sausages. You can get a good sausage in a variety of flavours in your nationwide or international branded supermarket, as you can pick up a audio story from huge companies BUT if you want the best sausage made from the finest cut of meat and prepared for you like you are the only customer that matters, then a smaller more family orientated butcher is where you need to visit. I have a company I always turn to for audiobooks that reminds me of the service I received at our local small shop and that is Spokenworld Audio. Spokenworld have everything, every flavour to keep the analogy going. Horror, science fiction, the greatest range of non-fiction I have ever discovered, and all with that small family store feel about the way they do business. I started life as a Spokenworld customer, I am now lucky enough to be involved with Neil Gardner and the gang through business dealings, but on both sides of the fence the quality is the same, the quality is guaranteed, the quality is superb.

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