An award winning year
Sony Radio Academy Awards
- Gold: The News and Current Affairs Award, The World Today
- Silver: The Speech Award, Outlook – Black in the USA
- Bronze: The Sports Award, Olympics Sportsworld
The Association for International Broadcasting
International Media Excellence Awards 2008
- Best Creative Radio Feature,The Amazon Paradox, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Portuguese for Brazil.
- Clearest Coverage of a Single News Event, The World Today for the coverage on the Chinese Congress Party.
- Best Cross Media Production, Bangladesh by Boat.
- The Harold Wincott Awards for Financial Journalism and Broadcasting, Best Radio Programme, The Trouble with Money.
- The Workworld Media Award, Radio Programme of the Year,The Trouble with Money.
- Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, External Broadcasts (Radio) award, Let’s Go To School, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Hindi.
- Speaker Abbott Award for bravery, Jonathan Paye-Layleh, reporter for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Focus on Africa and Network Africa from Liberia.
- Society of Environmental Journalists (US), Best In-Depth Radio programme,One Planet – Danger Fuels.
- Nick Clarke Award, single best broadcast interview of the year, Carrie Gracie for her interview with Alan Johnston.
- Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2008, Sports Story of the Year,Football Fraudsters.
- British Archaeological Awards 2008, Highly Commended, Malcolm Billings – Heritage: The Archaelogy of the Balkans.
- Martin Luther King Award, the Tanzanian Albino Association with the help of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service’s Vicky Ntetema’s exposé of the plight of Albinos in Tanzania.
- Commonwealth Broadcasting Association – Amnesty International Award for Human Rights programme,Taxi to the Dark Side.
- Commonwealth Broadcasting Association - Thomson Foundation, Journalist of the Year Award, Owen Bennett-Jones for his coverage of the Benazir Bhutto assassination and its aftermath, and his coverage of the feelings of the Arab world about the Six Days War, 40 years on.
- One World Special Award for Development Media 2008,Urunana Radio Soap Opera, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Great Lakes, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi.
- AfricomNet Annual Award for Excellence in HIV and Aids Strategic Communication 2008,Urunana Radio Soap Opera, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Great Lakes, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi.
- Association of Turkish Journalists, Sedat Simavi Radio Prize, One Year in The Club, Faik Uvanik.
- Florida Del Ray Beach Film Festival, Best Short Documentary,The Big Fat World Of Fernando Botero, Richard Collings.
- Trinidad & Tobago High Commission, Special Award, Debbie Ransome, Head, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Caribbean.
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service Trust
- New York Festival Radio Broadcasting Awards silver medal, Our World Our Future, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service Trust, Afghan Education Projects children’s department.
- Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) 2008 Award for Programmes on Development Issues, God’s Own Crop, produced by Doordashan, trained by Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service Trust through the iLearn Focus on Environment project.
- Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), Core Competence Award for Business Excellence.
- SIMFEST festival of local TV broadcasters and media freelancers, Romania,Under the Sign of the Earth (with the Center for Independent Journalism in Bucharest).