Radio Workshop wins Best Audio Documentary Award for 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Radio Workshop’s This Coal Life has won the International Documentary Association’s award for Best Standalone Audio Documentary. The IDA Documentary Awards is the world’s most distinguished event dedicated exclusively to the documentary genre, celebrating and honoring the year’s best nonfiction films and programs.
This adds to a string of awards won earlier in the year. We took home the Podcast & Radio Award at the One World Media Awards in London. We were finalists for both Best Documentary at the Ambies and Best Serialized Story at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. This Coal Life also aired on NPR’s daily news podcast Up First in September of this year.
This Coal Life follows the Skhosana family, who built their lives coal. But South Africa is moving away from it in favor of greener, cleaner energy in what the government has called the “Just Transition.” The world is watching to see how South Africa and families like the Skhosanas are going to pull it off. The episode tells the story of how the lives of coal families across the country are going to change drastically in the coming years.
We’d like to thank the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group and the African Climate Foundation for their support in producing this story and congratulate the Radio Workshop podcast team on their incredible work: Lesedi Mogoatlhe, Dhashen Moodley, Siya Mokoena, Jo Jackson, Qhamani Sambu, Mike Rahfaldt, and Rob Rosenthal - you’ve made us proud!
Thank you to the International Documentary Association for this recognition and for helping spotlight youth-reported stories from Africa.
And sending gratitude to you, our supporters, who make all of this work possible,
Yumna Martin, Radio Workshop Board Chair
Linda Barnett, US Radio Workshop Friends Chair
Emmanuelle Parr, UK Radio Workshop Friends Chair