Hat-Trick of Radio Awards

25 November 2009

A top radio award headed West for the third year running when cliftondiocese.com’s ‘The Budgerigar and the Prisoner’ podcast won the best internet audio award at the recent Jerusalem Awards. 

Mary Colwell produced the innovative advent reflection.  She said: “Winning the Jerusalem Award for best internet audio for three years in a row was a great honour and I was delighted.  The internet is a wonderful outlet for personal stories and I hope it encourages others to have a go.”

Mary collected the prize at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Arts in London.

As well as winning the Jerusalem Award ‘The Budgerigar and the Prison’ has received international recognition with the New York Festivals World Gold Medal and the British radio Oscar - a Sony Gold.

‘Let Us Pod - Bereavement’ won a Jerusalem Award in 2008 and 2007 saw our first win with ‘Let Us Pod - The Clifton Cathedral Podcast’.

Earlier this year the programme was highlighted at a media conference as an example of excellent public service broadcasting in the new digital age.

Numerous media awards have come our way in recent years.  All our award-winning podcast are still online at cliftondiocese.com.