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The Spoken Word Awards : 2002 Results

Category: Abridged Classic Fiction

Title: Right Ho, Jeeves

Author: P G Wodehouse

Performer: Simon Callow

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

Performer: Nigel Anthony

Publisher: Chorion & Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Murder on the Orient Express

Author: Agatha Christie

Performer: Andrew Sachs

Publisher: Chorion & Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Bronze

Category: Abridged Modern fiction

Title: Sea Glass

Author: Anita Shreve

Performer: Emilia Fox & Kerry Shale

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Atonement

Author: Ian McEwan

Performer: Isla Blair

Publisher: HarperCollins Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: I Capture the Castle

Author: Dodie Smith

Performer: Emilia Fox

Publisher: CSA Telltapes

Award: Bronze

Category: Abridgement

Title: White Teeth

Author: Zadie Smith

Performer: Alex Jennings

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Artemis Fowl

Author: Eoin Colfer

Performer: Adrian Dunbar

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Joint Silver


Title: Resurrection Men

Author: Ian Rankin

Performer: James Macpherson

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Joint Silver


Title: Atonement

Author: Ian McEwan

Performer: Isla Blair

Publisher: HarperCollins AudioBooks

Award: Joint Bronze


Title: River of Darkenss

Author: Rennie Airth

Performer: Nathaniel Parker

Publisher: Macmillan Audiobooks

Award: Joint Bronze

Category: Biography

Title: Elizabeth

Author: David Starkey

Performer: Robert Powell

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Marie Antoinette

Author: Antonia Fraser

Performer: Lindsay Duncan

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Public Places

Author: Sian Phillips

Performer: Sian Phillips

Publisher: Hodder Headline Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: Children: Over 7

Title: The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Performer: Jenny Agutter

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: The Amber Spyglass

Author: Phillip Pullman

Performer: Phillip Pullman & cast

Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Artemis Fowl

Author: Eoin Colfer

Performer: Nathaniel Parker

Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio Books

Award: Bronze

Category: Children: 7 and Under

Title: The Gruffalo

Author: Julia Donaldson

Performer: Imelda Staunton

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Horrid Henry and the Secret Club

Author: Francesca Simon

Performer: Miranda Richardson

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Charlie the Champion Pony

Author: Jenny Dale

Performer: Jan Francis

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Audio Books

Award: Joint Bronze


Title: Kipper and Roly

Author: Mick Inkpen

Performer: Dawn French

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Award: Joint Bronze


Title: The Little Kipper Collection

Author: Mick Inkpen

Performer: Dawn French

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Award: Joint Bronze

Category: Comedy / Humour

Title: Goon Again

Author: Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens & Jeffrey Holland

Performer: Andrew Secombe & John Glover

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Dead Ringers: The Specials

Author: Various

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France

Author: Tim Moore

Performer: Jeremy Hardy

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Drama

Title: A Suitable Boy

Author: Vikram Seth

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Les Miserables

Author: Victor Hugo

Performer: Joss Ackland, Leslie Phillips & others

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare

Performer: P Schofield, A McCowen, K Branagh & cast

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Non-Fiction

Title: The Century Speaks

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Performer: Corin Redgrave

Award: Gold


Title: Last Letters Home

Author: Tamsin Day-Lewis

Performer: Various

Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Joint Silver


Title: Snail Eggs and Samphire

Author: Derek Cooper

Performer: Stephen Thorne

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Joint Silver


Title: Colditz: The Definitive History

Author: Henry Chancellor

Performer: Sean Barrett

Publisher: Isis Publishing

Award: Joint Bronze


Title: The English: A Portrait of a People

Author: Jeremy Paxman

Performer: Jeremy Paxman

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Joint Bronze


Title: The History of the Musical

Author: Richard Fawkes

Performer: Kim Criswell

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Joint Bronze

Category: Poetry

Title: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Author: John Kavanagh

Performer: Jim Norton et al.

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Friendly Matches

Author: Allan Ahlberg

Performer: Allan Ahlberg, Sophie Aldred & Kevin Whately

Publisher: Puffin Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Beastly Tales

Author: Vikram Seth

Performer: Vikram Seth, Andrew Sachs & Fiona Shaw

Publisher: Orion Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Production

Title: A Suitable Boy

Author: Vikram Seth

Performer: Various

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Hymn

Author: Alan Bennett / George Fenton

Performer: Alan Bennett with the Medici Quartet

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Joint Silver


Title: The Gruffalo

Author: Julia Donaldson

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Audio

Performer: Imelda Staunton

Award: Joint Silver


Title: Dear Olly

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Performer: Paul McGann

Publisher: Collins Children's Audio

Award: Bronze

Category: TV and Film

Title: Dinnerladies 2

Author: Victoria Wood

Performer: Duncan Preston, Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Thelma Barlow & Celia Imrie

Publisher: BBC Radio Adaptation Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Ballykissangel: The New Arrival

Author: Hugh Miller

Performer: Gerry O'Brien

Publisher: Soundings Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: The Dalek's Masterplan

Author: Terry Nation / Derek Spooner

Performer: Peter Purves & others

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Bronze

Category: Unabridged Classic Fiction

Title: A Study in Scarlet

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Performer: David Timson

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Our Mutual Friend

Author: Charles Dickens

Performer: David Troughton

Publisher: Cover to Cover

Award: Silver


Title: Lady Susan

Author: Jane Austen

Performer: Harriet Walters, Kin Hicks, Carole Boyd & cast

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Award: Bronze

Category: Unabridged Modern Fiction

Title: The Bad Beginning

Author: Lemony Snicket

Performer: Tim Curry

Publisher: Collins Children's Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: Ruby in the Smoke

Author: Phillip Pullman

Performer: Anton Lesser

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Silver


Title: Taking It Over

Author: Julian Barnes

Performer: Steven Pacey, Alex Jennings, Clare Higgins

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Bronze

Category: Spoken Word Audio of the Year

Title: A Study in Scarlet

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Performer: David Timson

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Category: Spoken Word Audio of the Year: Childrens

Title: The Gruffalo

Author: Julia Donaldson

Performer: Imelda Staunton

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Audio

Category: Spoken Word Publisher of the Year

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Category: Male Performer of the Year

Paul McGann

Category: Female Performer of the Year

Isla Blair