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The Spoken Word Awards : 2004 Results

Category: Abridged Contemporary Fiction

Title: Tears Of The Giraffe

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Performer: Adjoa Andoh

Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Notes on a Scandal

Author: Zoe Heller

Performer: Anna Massey

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Brick Lane

Author: Monica Ali

Performer: Ayesha Dharker

Publisher: HarperCollins Audiobooks

Award: Bronze


Category: Abridged Fiction


Title: One False Move

Author: Harlan Coben

Performer: Tim Machin

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author: D H Lawrence

Performer: Emilia Fox

Publisher: CSA Word

Award: Silver


Title: Just William Live on Stage 2

Author: Richmal Crompton

Performer: Martin Jarvis

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Bronze


Category: Unabridged Contemporary Fiction


Title: A Good Year

Author: Peter Mayle

Performer: Tim Pigott-Smith

Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: The Songs of the Kings

Author: Barry Unsworth

Performer: Andrew Sachs

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Oryx and Crake

Author: Margaret Atwood

Performer: John Chancer

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Unabridged Fiction


Title: Paper Moon

Author: Joe David Brown

Performer: Laurel Lefkow

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

Performer: Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Molloy

Author: Samuel Beckett

Performer: Dermot Crowley and Sean Barrett

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Comedy / Humour


Title: Little Britain

Author: BBC Television Series

Performer: Matt Lucas and David Walliams

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Live at the Bolton Albert Halls

Author: Peter Kay

Performer: Peter Kay

Publisher: Sound Entertainment LTD

Award: Silver


Title: Have I Got News For You

Author: BBC Television

Performer: Angus Deayton, Paul Merton, Ian Hislop and Guests

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Bronze


Category: Children's 6 and Under Contemporary


Title: The Smartest Giant

Author: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Performer: Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter and Steven Pacey

Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Make Way For Noddy

Author: Enid Blyton

Performer: Jim Francis

Publisher: HaperCollins Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: The Real Fairy Storybooks

Author: Georgie Adams & Sally Gardner

Performer: Emma Chambers

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Children's Over 6 Contemporary


Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Author: J K Rowling

Performer: Stephen Fry

Publisher: Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd

Award: Gold


Title: The Edge

Author: Alan Gibbons

Performer: Malcolm Freeman and Lucy Akhurst

Publisher: Orion Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: The Thief Lord

Author: Cornelia Funke

Performer: Michael Maloney

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Bronze


Category: Children's Fiction


Title: The Tiger in the Well

Author: Philip Pullman

Performer: Anton Lesser

Publisher: BBC Cover to Cover

Award: Gold


Title: A Bear Called Paddington

Author: Michael Bond

Performer: Stehpen Fry

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: The Horse and his Boy

Author: C.S. Lewis

Performer: Alex Jennings

Publisher: HarperCollins Audiobooks

Award: Bronze


Category: Non-Fiction


Title: Forgotten Voices of the Great War

Author: Max Arthur

Performer: Various, Narrated by Richard Bebb

Publisher: Random House Audio

Award: Gold


Title: Pole to Pole

Author: Michael Palin

Performer: Michael Palin

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Dave Gorman's Google Whack! Adventure

Author: Dave Gorman

Performer: Dave Gorman

Publisher: Random House Audio

Award: Bronze


Category: Biography


Title: The Wars Against Saddam

Author: John Simpson

Performer: John Simpson

Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: the Kindness of Strangers

Author: Kate Adie

Performer: Kate Adie

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Antonin Dvorak: His Life and Works

Author: Jeremy Siepmann

Performer: Sean Barratt

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Poetry


Title: The Canterbury Tales Volume III

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Performer: P Madoc / T Pigott-Smith / S Tompkinson / S Barrett / C Kay / T West / R Shanks / M Maloney

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Poems Out Loud

Author: Selected by Brian Moss

Performer: Performance Poetry by Top Poets

Publisher: Hodder Children's Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: A We Nearly There Yet

Author: Various

Performer: Stephen Tompkinson and Emma Chambers

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Crime/Thriller


Title: The Distant Echo

Author: Val McDermid

Performer: Peter Capaldi

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: Agatha Raisin & the Quiche of Death

Author: M.C. Beaton

Performer: Penelope Keith

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Silver


Title: Rumpole's Last Case

Author: John Mortimer

Performer: Bill Wallis

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Drama


Title: Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

Performer: Anton Lesser, Andrew Sachs, Stratford Johns, Eleanor Bron, Angeline Ball

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Rumpole and the Primrose Path

Author: John Mortimer

Performer: Timothy West, Prunella Scales

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

Performer: Joan Walker and full cast.

Publisher: SmartPass LTD

Award: Bronze


Category: Production



Title: Eyewitness 1900 - 1909

Author: Joanna Bourke

Performer: Tim Pigott-Smith

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Gold


Title: Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

Performer: Anton Lesser, Andrew Sachs, Stratford Johns, Eleanor Bron, Angeline Ball

Publisher: BBC Radio Collection

Award: Silver


Title: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Performer: Adjoa Andoh

Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Abridgement


Title: Brick Lane

Author: Monica Ali

Performer: Ayesha Dharker

Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Books

Award: Gold


Title: A Question of Blood

Author: Ian Rankin

Performer: James Macpherson

Publisher: Orion Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Shadowmancer

Author: G.P. Taylor

Performer: Robert Glenister

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Award: Bronze


Category: Listen2Books Customer Choice


Title: Up and Down the Dales

Author: Gervase Phinn

Performer: Gervase Phinn

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Gold


Title: The School at Thrush Green

Author: Miss Read

Performer: June Whitfield

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks

Award: Silver


Title: Innocent Graves

Author: Peter Robinson

Performer: Neil Pearson

Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books

Award: Bronze


Category: Publishing Initiative


Title: Forgotten Voices of the Great War

Author: Max Arthur

Performer: Various, narrated by Richard Bebb

Publisher: Random House Audio

Category: Publisher of the Year

 

BBC Audiobooks

Category: Best Media Coverage


Christina Hardyment, The Times

Category: Best Retail Initiative


Waterstone's

Category: Best Retailer


Waterstone's

Category: Male Performer of the Year

 

Stephen Fry

Category: Female Performer of the Year

 

Emilia Fox

Category: Audio of the Year


Title: Forgotten Voices of the Great War

Author: Max Arthur

Performer: Various, narrated by Richard Bebb

Publisher: Random House Audio