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The Spoken Word Awards : 2001 Results

Category: Abridged Classic Fiction

Title: Thank You, Jeeves

Author: P G Wodehouse

Performer: Simon Callow

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

Performer: Carole Boyd

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Performer: Joanna Lumley

Publisher: CSA Telltapes

Award: Bronze

Category: Abridged Modern fiction

Title: Birdsong

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Performer: Samuel West

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Tales of the Unexpected

Author: Roald Dahl

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: The Wrong Boy

Author: Willy Russell

Performer: Willy Russell

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: Abridgement

Title: The Blind Assassin

Author: Margaret Atwood

Performer: Lorelei King

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio

Award: Gold


Title: In A Dry Season

Author: Peter Robinson

Performer: Neil Pearson & Anna Massey

Publisher: Macmillan AudioBooks

Award: Silver


Title: The Constant Gardener

Author: John le Carre

Performer: John le Carre

Publisher: Hodder Headline

Award: Bronze

Category: Biography

Title: White Cargo

Author: Felicity Kendal

Performer: Felicity Kendal

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Telling Tales

Author: Alan Bennett

Performer: Alan Bennett

Publisher: BBC Radio Collections

Award: Silver


Title: Going Solo

Author: Roald Dahl

Performer: Andrew Sachs

Publisher: Chivers Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Children: Over 7

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Author: J K Rowling

Performer: Stephen Fry

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Gold


Title: The Seeing Stone

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Performer: Samuel West

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: The Illustrated Mum

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

Performer: Josie Lawrence

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Bronze

Category: Children: 7 and Under

Title: Spot's Bedtime Storybook

Author: Eric Hill

Performer: Christopher Timothy

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Winter on Watership Down

Author: Richard Adams

Performer: Richard Briers

Publisher: Tempo

Award: Silver


Title: Kipper's A to Z

Author: Mick Inkpen

Performer: Dawn French

Publisher: Hodder Children's Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: Comedy

Title: Dead Ringers

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Quadrophobia

Performer: Phil Jupitus

Publisher: HarperCollins

Award: Silver


Title: Two Night Stand

Performer: Billy Connolly

Publisher: HarperCollins

Award: Bronze

Category: Drama

Title: King Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare

Performer: Various

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Forty Years On

Author: Alan Bennett

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: Oedipus The King

Author: Sophocles

Performer: Various

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Non-Fiction

Title: The History of Theatre

Author: David Timson

Performer: Derek Jacobi

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: London - The Biography

Author: Peter Ackroyd

Performer: Simon Callow

Publisher: Random House Audio

Award: Silver


Title: Kings and Queens of England

Author: Richard Hampton and David Weston

Performer: Derek Jacobi

Publisher: CSA Telltapes

Award: Bronze

Category: Poetry

Title: The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poetry

Author: Ed. June Crebbin

Performer: Various

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: The Nation's Favourite Poems of Childhood

Author: Various

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: English Verse - the Best of the Twentieth Century

Author: Various

Performer: Julian Glover & Isla Blair

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: Production

Title: Noel Coward: An Audio Biography

Author: Sheridan Morley

Performer: Sheridan Morley

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Author: From Transcripts

Performer: Martin Jarvis

Publisher: CSA Telltapes

Award: Bronze

Category: TV and Film Adaptations

Title: Alfie

Author: Bill Naughton

Performer: Jason Flemyng

Publisher: Hodder Headline Audio

Award: Gold


Title: Chicken Run

Author: From Dreamworks

Performer: Imelda Staunton

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Wallace and Gromit: Crackers in Space

Author: Tristan Davis and Nick Newman

Performer: Various

Publisher: Hodder Headline Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: Unabridged Classic Fiction

Title: Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Performer: Jim Norton

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Cranford

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Performer: Prunella Scales

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Silver


Title: The Well-Beloved

Author: Thomas Hardy

Performer: Robert Powell

Publisher: Chivers

Award: Bronze

Category: Unabridged Modern Fiction

Title: A Small Death in Lisbon

Author: Robert Wilson

Performer: Sean Barrett

Publisher: Isis

Award: Gold


Title: I'm Telling You, They're Aliens!

Author: Jeremy Strong

Performer: Tony Robinson

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: The Leopard

Author: Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Performer: Corin Redgrave

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Bronze


Title: Speaking with the Angel

Author: Ed. Nick Hornby

Performer: Various

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Bronze


Title: Father! Father! Burning Bright

Author: Alan Bennett

Performer: Alan Bennett

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Bronze

Category: Spoken Word Audio of the Year

Title: White Cargo

Author: Felicity Kendal

Performer: Felicity Kendal

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Category: Spoken Word Publisher of the Year

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Category: Male Performer of the Year

Simon Callow

Category: Female Performer of the Year

Lorelei King