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BBC Radio 1 s Greg James has won best music breakfast show at the UK s radio industry s most prestigious awards.
TalkSport won the best speech breakfast award show at the Aria Awards, while Magic was named best national station.
There were 16 BBC winners, who also included Radio 1 s Scott Mills for best music entertainment show.
Yungblud and George the Poet won for their podcasts, while BBC DJs Jamz Supernova and Poppy Begum were among the other winners.
Accepting his award, James dedicated it to all the breakfast show teams who had got up early over the past year.
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Including Alan Partridge, Jason Manford and Kim Noble
Alan Partridge, Jason Manford and topical Radio 4 show The Skewer are up for the biggest award in audio comedy.
But the shortlist for this year’s Arias – the Audio & Radio Industry Awards – includes less high-profile programmes too.
Also nominated in the comedy category are Kim Noble’s independently produced podcast Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow), BBC Radio Wales show The Musical Life Of… and Radio 4’s multi-ethnic sketch show Sketchtopia, hosted by Hardeep Singh Kohli.
Noble’s ten-episode show, released last autumn, features hidden-mic recordings, philosophical narration and dream-like music as the comic grapples with life. It was described as ‘morbidly compelling’ by The Guardian.
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