2018 SANDFORD ST MARTIN AWARDS SHORTLISTS
Congratulations to those programmes shortlisted for a 2018 Sandford St Martin Award.
Such is the quality of the entries the Trust receives that winnowing the list of excellent entries down to a scant shortlist of only six programmes in each category gets more and more difficult every year. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Awards and, looking back at our archive, what becomes clear is that the creativity, resourcefulness, ingenuity and gift for storytelling demonstrated by those of you making programmes about religion, belief, ethics and what our 2016 judge Frank Cottrell Boyce called “the big questions” continue to grow.
Our congratulations to all our entrants this year but especially to those programmes shortlisted and listed below. You can find out more about each of them by clicking on their name.
Don’t forget: you can vote for your favourite programme exploring religion, ethics or belief in the Sandford St Martin Radio Times Readers’ Award until May 21.
Winners will be announced at the 2018 Sandford St Martin Awards ceremony at Lambeth Palace on 7 June.
Television Shortlist
LA Productions Ltd for BBC One
Exodus: Our Journey Continues (episode 3)
KEO Films for BBC Two
Extremely British Muslims (episode 2)
The Garden Productions for Channel 4
Films of Record for BBC One
Blakeway Productions for Channel 4
Ross Kemp Libya’s Migrant Hell
Freshwater Films for Sky 1 HD
Radio Shortlist
5 Live Daily with Emma Barnett (Stanbrook Abbey)
5 Live Daily Production Team for BBC 5 Live
BBC Wales Network Radio for BBC Radio 4
Living With the Gods: Episode 1 The Lion Man
Radio Documentaries Unit for BBC Radio 4
Hardeep’s Sunday Lunch: Inverness
BBC Radio Religion and Ethics for BBC Radio 4
Heart and Soul: Witness Protection
BBC Radio Production North for BBC World Service
BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC Radio 4
Children’s Shortlist
TrueTube/CTVC Ltd. for TrueTube.co.uk
Finding My Family – Partition: A Newsround Special
CBBC Production for CBBC
TrueTube/CTVC Ltd. for TrueTube.co.uk
CTVC Ltd. for CBBC
Drummer TV for CBBC
TrueTube/CTVC Ltd. for TrueTube.co.uk
Interview Shortlist
BBC Radio York Sunday Breakfast: Bishop James Jones
BBC Radio York
Heart and Soul: Good Without God?
BBC Radio Production North for BBC World Service
BBC News and BBC Asian Network
Ramadan: In Conversation with Babar Ahmad
CTVC for thingsunseen.co.uk
Sunday: Interview with Dr Ibrar Majid
Martin Bashir, BBC News Religious Affairs Editor for the Sunday programme, BBC Radio 4
Why I Changed My Mind – George Carey
Radio Specials, BBC News for BBC Radio 4
Radio Times Readers’ Award Shortlist
Crackit Productions Ltd for Channel 5
LA Productions Ltd for BBC One
My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947
Wall to Wall Media Ltd for BBC One
Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery
Tigerlily Productions for BBC Four
Folk Films Ltd for BBC One
BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC Radio 4