Radio Drama Festival

The Audio Drama Festival 2026:
"To Canterbury with Rich Offerings"

We had a highly successful and enjoyable Festival this year.

The winners are

Full length category

1st Mother of God, Banish Putin (Czech Radio)

2nd 30 Acres (RTE)

3rd equal Clamber Cat (Tomasz Zacherwicz) and Nuages ( Bablefish asbl)

Short form

1st A step by step guide to wooden spoon carving (Cristina Marras)

2nd Timisoara Now (Peter Vamos)

3rd AdotHdot (Silver Sound NYC)

Deacon Young producers award

Tia Morgen for NIXE. Eine Geschichte queerer
Beziehungsgewalt

Congratulations to all

Audience award

Voting for the Audience Award will open later this week. Details on how to listen and vote will be available here.

The regulations are here

You can find out more about the individual plays in the Full Programme above.

scripts in English

Booking is now opening to attend the live listening sessions in Canterbury.

The event is free, but please book your ticket!

Booking is now open for online listening.

The event is free, but you need to book your ticket.

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

Kate Chisholm

March 2019

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.

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