Eleanor Tomlinson and Emma Spurgin Hussey Shortlisted for BBC Audio Drama Awards

Eleanor Tomlinson

Congratulations to Eleanor Tomlinson and Emma Spurgin Hussey on being shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016.

Eleanor, who plays Demelza in Poldark, has made the shortlist for Best Debut Performance in an Audio Drama for Dead Girls Tell No Tales.  The other finalists in the category are Karen Bartke in My Name Is... and Richard Hawley in Monster.

Emma Spurgin Hussey

Emma plays Mrs Zacky Martin in Poldark, but is a finalist for the Imison Award for Best Audio Drama Script by a New Writer, for her play The Churchill Barriers. The other contenders are 30 Eggs by Eoin O'Connor and A Thing Inside a thing Inside a Thing by Iani AJ Ross.

The Audio Drama Awards "...recognise the cultural significance, range and originality of audio drama, on air as well as online, and credit the creativity of the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work within the field." Judging will be by a panel of experts. The awards ceremony will be in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, on Sunday 31 January.