All the winners from the ARIAS 20206

All the winners from the ARIAS 20206

Hits Radio has won UK Radio Station or Radio Network of the Year at the 2026 ARIAS.

The Audio Academy event took place at the Roundhouse, with Rylan hosting as 21 awards were announced across UK radio, podcasting and audio.
BBC Radio Merseyside won John Myers Local Radio Station of the Year, while Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James took Gold for Best Music Breakfast Show.
Trevor Nelson received the Judges’ Special Recognition Award, presented by Craig David, marking his contribution to radio and British music culture.
Trevor said: “You’ve stitched me right up! I cannot tell you how much this means. That young me who started at KISS in the 80’s just wouldn’t believe any of this.”
Other Gold winners included How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, Dove and Sony Music Podcasts for Best Commercial Partnership, Beth Ditto for Best New Presenter, and BBC Sounds for Audio Brand of the Year.
Bloomberg’s Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard won the public voted Radio Times Moment of the Year for Mishal Husain’s interview with Nigel Farage.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS

BEST NEW PRESENTER

GOLD WINNER
Beth Ditto
BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds

SILVER
Georgie Styles
Smoke Trail and Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio and BBC Sounds Audio Lab

BRONZE
Hugh Sheehan
BBC Sounds Audio Lab

BEST MUSIC BREAKFAST SHOW

GOLD WINNER
Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James
BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1

SILVER
The Bald Builders Breakfast
Fix Radio

BRONZE
Boogie in the Morning
Forth 1

BEST SPEECH BREAKFAST SHOW

GOLD WINNER
Joe Sims’ ‘Proper Bristol Breakfast’
BBC Radio Bristol

SILVER
Good Morning Ulster
BBC Radio Ulster

BRONZE
Sophie Law
BBC Radio Oxford

BEST MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

GOLD WINNER
Romesh Ranganathan
TBI Media for BBC Radio 2

SILVER
Tyler West
KISS

BRONZE
Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio

BEST SPEECH ENTERTAINMENT

GOLD WINNER
Fame Under Fire
BBC Sounds

SILVER
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica

BRONZE
British Scandal
Audible and Samizdat Audio

BEST MUSIC

GOLD WINNER
21st Century Folk
Pomona Audio for BBC Radio 2

SILVER
Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders
BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1

BRONZE
So Hear Me Out
Reduced Listening for Southbank Centre

BEST COMEDY

GOLD WINNER
It’s a Fair Cop
BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4

SILVER
The Skewer
Unusual for BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Shagged, Married, Annoyed
Avalon

BEST FACTUAL SINGLE EPISODE

GOLD WINNER
Locked Up
BBC Radio 4

SILVER
Lost in Lullabies
Sound and Bones, BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Pete Wicks’ Man Made – Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Bauer Media Audio UK

BEST FACTUAL SERIES

GOLD WINNER
My Stalker Moved in Next Door
Hits Radio

SILVER
Pipeline: Left to Die
Daily Mail

BRONZE
The House at Number 48
BBC Radio 4

BEST DRAMA OR FICTION

GOLD WINNER
Four Gammons and a Unicorn
Pozzitive for BBC Radio 4

SILVER
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
BBC Studios Audio for BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Shirley’s Party
Hooley Productions for BBC Radio 4

BEST NEWS

GOLD WINNER
Hits and Headlines
Hits Radio

SILVER
The Mishal Husain Show
Bloomberg

BRONZE
Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica’s Recovery
BBC Radio 1XTRA Newsbeat

BEST SPORTS

GOLD WINNER
The Ryder Cup
BBC Radio 5 Live

SILVER
Total Sport Merseyside
BBC Radio Merseyside

BRONZE
Not by the Playbook
BBC World Service

BEST EVENT COVERAGE

GOLD WINNER
Train Tracks
Tandem Productions for BBC Radio 3

SILVER
The Shipping Forecast Day
BBC Radio 4

BRONZE
Live Aid Relived
Greatest Hits Radio

BEST SONIC BRANDING

GOLD WINNER
Superscoreboard
Clyde 1

SILVER
BBC Radio 2

BRONZE
BBC Asian Network

BEST COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP

GOLD WINNER
How To Fail
Dove and Sony Music Podcasts

SILVER
Comedians Chatting Cancer
Cancer Research UK and Acast

BRONZE
Wickes and Bauer Media Audio UK

BEST SOCIAL IMPACT

GOLD WINNER
Criminally Queer
Reduced Listening for BBC Sounds Audio Lab

SILVER
Pipeline: Left to Die
Daily Mail

BRONZE
Stop a Stroke
BBC Radio Manchester

BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION

GOLD WINNER
The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score
BBC Radio 5 Live

SILVER
The Wargame
Sky News and Tortoise

BRONZE
Train Tracks
Tandem Productions for BBC Radio 3

JOHN MYERS LOCAL RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR

GOLD WINNER
BBC Radio Merseyside

SILVER
Forth 1

BRONZE
Clyde 1

AUDIO BRAND OF THE YEAR

GOLD WINNER
BBC Sounds

SILVER
Rayo

BRONZE
Audio Always Originals

UK RADIO STATION OR RADIO NETWORK OF THE YEAR

GOLD WINNER
Hits Radio

SILVER
BBC Radio 2

BRONZE
Fix Radio

RADIO TIMES MOMENT OF THE YEAR

GOLD WINNER
“Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard”
Bloomberg

SILVER
Scotland V Denmark World Cup Qualifier
BBC Radio Scotland

BRONZE
Chelsey Ward shares her lived experience of racist abuse in Yorkshire
BBC Radio Sheffield

2026 JUDGES’ SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD

Trevor Nelson