Floating wins an award

 

I'm very proud to announce that Hugh Hughes won Best Scripted Comedy Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards last night. It's a real honour, particularly as Floating was both Hugh's first live show and his first work to be broadcast on the radio.

Andrew Davies, who wrote the TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, was one of the judges in Hugh's category and this is what he had to say about Floating:

"Floating was totally original. Generally I hate fantasy, but this was very different, somehow sweetly earnest as well as daft, with sadness at the heart of it. I loved it that it had a cast of two, and I’d never heard of either of them. It used the radio medium with enormous (concealed) sophistication and reminded one of the almost limitless power of radio to create a world."


The award itself was presented by actor Richard Wilson and, as you can see from the photo, Hugh also met David Tennant who was master of ceremonies.

It being radio awards, someone sneakily managed to record some audio of Hugh on stage...



 Simon Bedford (Executive Producer, Hoipolloi)