 | Press ReleasesWales@work wins prestigious industry award |
BBC Radio Wales' current affairs programme Wales@work has won a top award – taking the prize for best regional business and workplace programme on TV or radio in the UK. Last night (Tuesday 23 January), the show won the Best Regional Broadcast award for the second year running at the Workworld Media Awards in London – considered the UK's leading business journalism prizes. The awards, run by The Work Foundation, formerly the Industrial Society, aim to recognise writing and broadcasting about the world of work. The team also won the best radio programme award at the ceremony in 2003. Will Hutton, Chief Executive of The Work Foundation, says: "For me it exemplifies all that is best about the BBC - intelligent, balanced, informative, public service oriented and with high production values. "It picks surprising subjects, researches them thoroughly and brings them to life through well-cast discussions. I only wish someone would introduce a national equivalent."
The team are celebrating their fifth anniversary since the show first went on the air in January 2001, and instead of being at the awards in London last night they were hard at work broadcasting their 200th programme. Presenter Sarah Dickins says: "It's great to win this. We're always trying to make Wales@work really different by talking about what directly affects working people – our hopes, fears and dreams. "It's fantastic to discover some of the exciting developments happening in workplaces in Wales, across the UK and around the world and look at how they affect us. All the time on Wales@work we're asking how, in Wales, can we do what we do even better."
Entrants included the Financial Times, Channel 4 News, Mail on Sunday, BBC Radio Five Live, The Money Programme, Time and Newsnight. Wales@work is presented by Sarah Dickins, produced by Genevieve Loxton, with broadcast journalist Sonia Mathur. BBC Wales Publicity | 
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