The New York Festivals (NYF) 2025 Radio Awards has unveiled its 2025 Radio Awards Shortlist. “Groundbreaking audio” created by storytellers from six continents were judged by New York Festivals’ 2025 Radio Awards Grand Jury.
This year’s shortlist features entries across a range of categories, including audiobooks, podcasts, dramas, documentaries, breaking news coverage, entertainment, and music specials. Work was submitted by radio stations, networks, production companies, and independent producers worldwide.
Shortlisted entries within the Entertainment category include:
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (Bafflegab Productions)
- U.Me: The Complete Musical (Magnum Opus Broadcasting)
- Lonely No More (Audiama Productions Limited)
- Les miracles ordinaires (Ordinary Miracles) (Radio Canada)
- Macbeth (Swedish Radio)
- Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (Flare Path Productions)
- Nazareno Cruz and the wolf (Cadena 3 Argentina)
- Indigenous Kids (CBC Radio and Audio)
- Invitation from PJ Harvey (BBC 6 Music)
- Pure Energy – Eminem Special (Aramco media production division)
- Chuck Berry in an Irish Field (Ocean FM)
- No Regrets (New Media Productions)
- Pure Energy (Aramco media production division)
- A Special Thistle & Shamrock Christmas with Fiona Ritchie (Fiona Ritchie Productions and Troubled Times – a sound-composition (Götz Naleppa).
Entertainment entries in the Children/Young Adult category advancing include: The Flying Suitcase and Mio, My Son (Swedish Radio), The Crazy Kiwi Christmas Kids Show (CBA Trust – Christian Broadcasting Association), Hey History! (Impact Studios), The But’s Family — Tomb Sweeping On-Air (R2, Radio Television Hong Kong) and The Kitchen in Barnradion (Sveriges Radio).
Documentaries include The Sounds of America (Accompany Studios), Riptide (Clare FM), What makes you think somebody will come and get us? (ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Last One On The Train (Susan Dennehy), IDEAS –Child Sex Abuse Prevention: How Best to Protect Kids (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Jeff Buckley Forever By Guy Pearce (Zinc Media), Foundering: The OpenAI Story (Bloomberg Podcasts), Shane MacGowan: The Old Main Drag (Rich Power), Buried: The Last Witness (Smoke Trail Productions Ltd), Expanse: Spies in the Outback (Australian Broadcasting Corp. Sydney), Fingertip Chef : Cooking My Life (BeFM), About the Boys (Whistledown Productions), and HKSAR v. Jimmy Lai (Radio Taiwan International).
Music Documentaries shortlisted include Oliver Jones et les lumières de la Petite-Bourgogne (Radio-Canada), Stories from the New Silk Road: Space (c60media ltd.), Shōgun Seisiún: Irish Music In Japan (Pavel Barter), Serial Offender – Arnold Schoenberg’s 12 Tone Adventure (Curtains For Radio Ltd) and The Trashcan Sinatras (Ken Sweeney).
For 68 years, the New York Festivals Radio Awards has provided a global platform to celebrate world-class storytellers. Since 1957, the competition has honored innovation and excellence in broadcast audio content across all genres and platforms, continuously evolving alongside industry developments and global trends.
Award-winning entries will be announced during the New York Festivals 2025 Storytellers Gala virtual event on May 22 at 6pm Eastern/11pm BST.
All winning entries for the 2025 NYF Radio Awards will be showcased in the Radio Awards winners gallery. View the entire 2025 Radio Awards Shortlist.
