The Charles Parker Prize 2025 for Best Student Audio Feature

Deadline to apply – Monday 31st March, link here

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 Trust is delighted to announce that in 2025 BBC Radio 4 will again be broadcasting the Charles Parker Prize winning features in their New Storytellers strand during the summer.

The competition will be open for audio features (produced between 13th February 2024 and 10th February 2025) made by any student (or recently graduated student) in Further or Higher Education in the UK, and also by those who have attended an accredited media training course.  The competition opened on Monday 25 November 2024 and the final deadline has been extended to Monday 31 March 2025. 

A shortlist of features will be announced at the end of April. Nominees will be 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.

For more details and to enter, click here or the link above.