The Charles Parker Prize 2025
for the Best Student Audio Feature

The Charles Parker Awards – named in honour of one of radio’s greatest documentary pioneers – have established an unparalleled reputation for excellence in radio and audio feature production by young people, and many of our winners have gone on to carve out successful professional careers in radio and audio production.  The 2024 winning features were commissioned by the BBC through the independent radio production company Soundscape Productions, co-ordinators of the Charles Parker Prize since 2010.

The Charles Parker Prize Nominees for 2025 are: 

14 Years in 14 Minutes – Sarah Warren (Transmission Roundhouse audio course)
Foundlings – Matthew Hallsworth (University of Salford)
Glass Children – Bobbi Bunker (University of Sunderland)
In Living Memory – Shadé Joseph (UCL)
My Toy Soldier – Kieran Callaghan (University of Sunderland)
Searching for the Lost Language of Cumbric – Caitlin Kennedy (Imperial College London)
Shorn Women – Chloe Turpin (UCL)
The Spaces Between – Emma Ratyal-Brooks (In the Dark audio course) 
The T-shirt – Jenny Davies (In the Dark audio course)
Ukraine to Scotland – Musical Journey – Sofiia Fylypiv (University of the Highlands and Islands)

They are all invited to the award ceremony, which will take place as the core of the Annual Charles Parker Day at Goldsmiths College, University of London on Friday 16 May 2025.

BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting the Charles Parker Prize winning
features in their New Storytellers strand during the summer.
See below for previous winners of the Charles Parker Prize