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This year, our charity the Prison Radio Association has been nominated for an astonishing eleven awards across eleven categories at the Audio UK’s Audio Production Awards (APAs) including the Production Company of the Year.
The Audio Production Awards is sponsored by Audible, and on the 27th November 2025 it returns for its fifteenth year. Celebrating the people both behind the scenes and in front of the mic, the awards celebrate audio right across the board – from podcasts to radio, audiobooks to sound design, production to presenting.
Below, we talk you through each and every category we’re up for this year…
Branded Content: Sam Taylor (Hold Or Fold with GambleAware) – Prison Radio Association
Hold or Fold is our podcast about gambling addiction, hosted by Ben and Steve, who’ve both lived through it. They share real stories, expert advice, and hope for recovery, especially for those affected by gambling and the criminal justice system.
It’s recently launched it’s fifth series…
Lifestyle and Society: NPR Talk – Prison Radio Association
NPR Talk is the home of conversation on National Prison Radio.
It features unmissable prison news, celebrity interviews and positivity from the wing. With fun, games, advice, sports chat and health and wellbeing at the core of its programming, NPR Talk reaches up to 80,000 people every day.
Music: Free Flow – Prison Radio Association
Free Flow is our award-winning National Prison Radio show, presented by Lady Unchained and sponsored by the Shannon Trust.
Every week it gives people in prison a vital escape – space to write, rap and express themselves while connecting thousands with Shannon Trust’s life-changing reading and writing support.
Sound Design: Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag – Prison Radio Association
The programme is a blend of poetry, music and testimony, all created by Scout, who first started working with us during their prison sentence at HMP Styal.
It’s the story of Scout’s relationship with alcohol, and with the tag that monitors them, told through Scout’s dazzling poetry.
Sports: Secret Life of Prisons – Brixton Half Marathon – Prison Radio Association
Two days before the 2025 London Marathon, a very special half marathon took place behind the walls of HMP Brixton in aid of the Prison Reform Trust. And our podcast The Secret Life of Prisons was granted exclusive access to bring listeners the sounds of a momentous morning.
Nine of HMP Brixton’s residents undertook a 16-week training programme and they ran alongside around 40 visitors in a feat of endurance and stamina.
True Crime: Andrew Wilkie (Various) – Prison Radio Association
Andrew is our incredibly talented Deputy Chief Executive who produces multiple different types of shows that represent all things criminal justice.
New Voice Sponsored by BBC Sounds:
Scout Tzofiya Bolton (Various) – Prison Radio Association
Scout Tzofiya Bolton is a poet, activist and award-winning radio presenter. Scout presents the Rock Show on National Prison Radio and previously worked on National Prison Radio whilst serving a sentence at HMP Styal.
Producer of the Year Sponsored by Audible: Andrew Wilkie (Various) – Prison Radio Association
Our Deputy Chief Executive is back again for another nomination!
Ensemble Cast/Presenting Team: Zak and Jules (Life After Prison) – Prison Radio Association
The dynamic podcasting duo are back at it again this year for best presenting team!
Life After Prison explores how people rebuild their lives after prison through honest conversations and practical advice. It gives a voice to lived experience and provides listeners with the information, motivation and inspiration needed to navigate life on the outside.
The Changemaker Award Sponsored by The Podcast Show: Outside In – Prison Radio Association
Outside In is our first ever podcast produced and presented entirely by people who learnt their craft while working at National Prison Radio during their sentence.
Together, the team interview big names who have experienced life behind bars, while providing guidance and practical tips to help ease the transition back to life after release, from those who have ‘been there done that’.
Production Company of the Year Sponsored by Aiir: Prison Radio Association
We are the Prison Radio Association – the charity that believes in the power of audio to change lives.
We run National Prison Radio, multiple podcast productions, Prison Radio International and we unearth talent behind bars, and reshape public perspectives.
Last year, we proudly took home two Gold awards – one for Life After Prison podcast presenters Zak and Jules, and another for National Prison Radio Producer Arthur Hagues, plus a Bronze for Life After Prison Producer Beth Madden. Can we bring home the gold again this year?
We are so grateful to the Audio Production Awards for giving us this recognition. Huge congratulations to our incredible colleagues at the Prison Radio Association – you go to show every day just how much stories and representation around criminal justice are needed and wanted in this space. Our small but mighty charity doing what we do best again.
The winners of the APAs 2025 will be revealed at the awards ceremony at the BFI, London Southbank, on Thursday 27th November – we’ll see you there!
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