The Charles Parker Prize Winners 2021 announced today!
Today at 1pm the five winners of the Charles Parker Prize were announced by Richard Knight BBC Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Factual Programmes. He was impressed with all the finalists’ features which were ‘compelling stories, well told’ and all gave him ‘something to think about’. ut there can only be five winners and his selection, from the 10 finalists nominated by the Charles Parker Prize Judging Panel, has allowed him to spread across the week a series of pieces by New Storytellers that ‘demonstrate a mix of stories and styles, treatments and voices’.
The five winners are:-
‘Read My Lips’ – Isobel Howe (University of the West of England)
‘The Bathing Place’ – Hunter Charlton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘Outsider Sisters’ – Chantal Herbert (University of Sunderland)
‘He’s Only a Cleaner’ – Emma Millen (University of Sunderland)
’40 Years On: Remembering the New Cross Fire’ – Magdalena Moursy (Goldsmiths, University of London)
The winners will be broadcast in ‘New Storytellers’ on BBC Radio 4, Monday-Friday at 1.45pm in the week beginning 26th July 2021
GOLD Charles Parker Prize 2021:
The Chair of the of Charles Parker Prize Judging Panel 2021, Simon Elmes, also announced the winner of the Charles Parker Gold Award for Student Feature 2021. She is Magdalena Moursy for her documentary ’40 Years On: Remembering the New Cross Fire’. Magdalena, in addition to the BBC Radio 4 broadcast receives a professional SADiE Radio Producer editing system and a 2 week placement in the BBC Radio’s Documentaries Unit.
You can view the announcement of the winners on the Charles Parker Trust’s YouTube Channel here.
The Judges for the CP Prize 2021 were:-
Simon Elmes – Former Creative Director, BBC Radio, and chair of the judging panel
Mair Bosworth – BBC Features Producer and Gold Charles Parker Prize Winner 2011
Mukti Jain Campion – Founder of Culture Wise Productions, Audio Content Fund Panellist and Chair, Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity
Charlotte Runcie – Radio Critic, Daily Telegraph
Philip Sellars – Executive Editor, BBC Radio Documentaries Unit
