The Radio Drama Festival 2025:
Our 11th Audio Drama Festival took place from the 24th – 28th March 2025. We enjoyed 5 days of eclectic, timulating,delightful, often moving listening from 20 countries in 18 languages. And on Friday we celebrated all the plays and announced the winners of the jury award. You can see the list of jury awards here.
Voting for the Audience Award is now open!
Click on the link below to catch up on any pieces you missed live as well as listening to our World Showcase programme!
You can access the full programme here
This year, we have introduced a new element. The World Showcase includes a selection of the brilliant work we were unable to include in the live listening sessions. These pieces will be available via soundcloud – link coming soon – and will be included in the Audience Award. The full programme for this part of the festival is here.
Book your tickets for the listening sessions at the links below.
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s festival!

Kate Chisholm
2025 Shortlist and Programme:
Our shortlisted pieces list for 2025 is now available, including those that have been accepted into our brand new category.
NOTE: The festival organisers reserve the right to make changes at short notice.
The full programme is now available here
Full programme 2025 final and the summary timetable below
