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From the Big Smoke to the Big Apple, Scout and our team’s talents know no bounds. Just last week, Scout, Andrew and Ellen were on the Radio Academy’s red ARIAS carpet picking up two Gold Awards. One for Best New Presenter, and another in the Technical and Creative Innovation category for their BBC Radio 4 Documentary, The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag.
This week, they have picked up another Gold and a Silver, for that very same piece of now multi-award winning audio, at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag a radio ballad made by our charity for BBC Radio 4. The programme is a blend of poetry, music and testimony, all created by Scout, who left prison just over a year ago after finding us during her sentence at HMP Styal. It’s the story of Scout’s relationship with alcohol, and with the tag that monitors her, told through Scout’s dazzling poetry.
Last night, this piece of audio art was awarded a Gold award for Best Use Of Sound and a Silver award in the Health and/or Medical Documentary category at The New York Festivals Radio Awards, an annual event highlighting excellence in radio, podcasts, and audio storytelling from around the world.
To win this globally recognised award is a phenomenal achievement for our little organisation, made all the more extraordinary when we remember that Scout was in prison just over a year ago.
Winning trophies and walking red carpets is of course a perk of the industry we neatly fit into, but for us being nominated – let alone winning – these types of awards means so much more than the glamour and the silverware. This win isn’t just ours. It’s a win for people in prison everywhere, and a powerful reminder that there is life, talent, and potential beyond the bars.
Thank you to everyone at The New York Festivals for believing in what we do here at the Prison Radio Association and for recognising just how golden Scout Tzofiya Bolton is.
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