Radio Drama Festival

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.

results 2025 final

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 

Full programme 2025 final

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.

World Showcase Full programme 

Book your tickets for the listening sessions at the links below. 

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s festival! 

…being at the festival is like travelling elsewhere without having to undergo the hassle of airport security

Kate Chisholm

March 2019

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

The Speak Softly Shop

 A season of newly made shortform dramas from around the world. Created as a response to the pandemic, they are a powerful reminder of the versatility of audio drama as an art form. Covid 19 made us postpone the 2020 festival but it brought this extraordinary cycle of work.