Whistledown wins first Radio Times Trust in Audio Award for The Great Post Office Trial
Radio indie Whistledown has won the first Radio Times “Trust in Audio” Award for the BBC Radio 4 series The Great Post Office Trial.
They were up against Just One Thing with Michael Mosley (BBC Radio 4/Sounds), More or Less (BBC Radio 4/Sounds), The Rest Is History (Goalhanger Podcasts) and Why Do You Hate Me? with Marianna Spring (BBC Sounds).
The documentary series, presented by journalist Nick Wallis, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020, and has followed the scandal of the Post Office’s faulty Horizon IT system, and the impact it has had on the lives of hundreds of people running their own post offices.
Whistledown’s Managing Director David Prest said: “Back in 2020, no-one else seemed to be giving airtime to the Post Office story. Presenter Nick Wallis and producer Bob Nicholson were dogged in getting to the truth around the scandal and it has been a privilege to report on what so many wronged sub-postmasters and mistresses went through.”
The judges described the series as “beautifully made and paced, the way the story is told is compelling. As a listener you trust Nick Wallis to get to the bottom of the story, in the same way that you trust him with the lives of the people whose stories he is telling.”
This latest award comes just a few weeks after Whistledown won Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards for the audio porn investigation, “Press Play Turn On” made for Audible U.K.
This year’s winners were announced in a special ceremony on Tuesday evening (5th November) at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London, hosted by author and journalist Mariella Frostrup.
Photo by Rob Parfitt
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