The five winning entries for the 2026 Charles Parker Prize were broadcast in July and continue to be available on BBC Sounds at bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001s… Unzipping a Community, Proud, Justice For Harry Stanley, Minor Swing, and After Confession
If you have missed any of the Charles Parker prizewinning programmes, you can now find them at bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001smv…
Tomorrow on @BBCradio4 at 1:45 listen to prizewinning feature Proud, produced by Kyra Edwards (Univ. W.London). Judges said: “I appreciated being taken right into the heart of family life not often represented in mainstream audio”. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yx3…
There are new broadcasting dates for the 2026 Charles Parker prizewinning entries. These are now Monday 13th - Friday 17th July 2026 still at 1345-1400. Full details at cpatrust.org.uk/news/new-bro…
The 2026 Charles Parker Day will take place on Friday 8 May at the University of Salford. Full details at cpatrust.org.uk/cp-days/2026
Two Charles Parker winning features to be repeated on BBC Radio 4 @BBCRadio4:
In Living Memory (by Shadé Joseph) on Friday 5 Dec at 1445
Life in Numbers (by Sarah Warren) on Friday 12 Dec at 1445
The Charles Parker Prize 2026 for the Best Student Audio Feature is now open! Features made by any student (or recent graduate) in FE or HE in the UK, or from an accredited media training course can be entered before the deadline of 23 March. Details at cpatrust.org.uk/prize











