Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) represents the citizen and consumer interest
in broadcasting and works for quality and diversity in British broadcasting.

Press Release: EMBARGO: not for publication before 0100 hrs 21st March 2002

The 2001 Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting will be presented at VLV's Spring Conference on Thursday, 21st March 2002 at Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, Bloomsbury, London WC1 at 1345 hrs. 

The Awards will be presented by Michael Buerk, BBC News Broadcaster and radio presenter.  Each of the winners will receive an engraved crystal bowl kindly donated by Dartington Crystal.

The Awards, nominated and selected by listeners and viewers rather than professional peers, are sponsored by the Voice of the Listener Trust, VLV's charitable arm, and organised by VLV member Gillian Harvey.  The categories, winners and those who will receive the Awards on the day are:

Radio Programme or Series - Winner: Desert Island Discs = BBC Radio 4
Recipient: Miranda Birch, Producer

Short list: 
Analysis 
Composer of the Week 
Desert Island Discs
The Food Programme 
Front Row 
Private Passions

New Radio Programme or Series - Winner: Dead Ringers = BBC Radio 4
Recipients: Bill Dare, Producer; Jan Ravens; John Cottrill & Mark Perry

Short list:
Crossing Continents 
Dead Ringers 
Go 4 It

Radio Individual Contributor - Winner: James Naughtie, Today & Book Club 
BBC Radio 4
Recipient: James Naughtie

Short list:
Humphrey Lyttelton 
Jenni Murray 
James Naughtie
Libby Purves 
Mark Tully 
Jimmy Young

Television Programme or Series - Winner: The Blue Planet = BBC1
Recipients: Alistair Fothergill, Producer; Doug Allen, Key Cameraman & Sue Flood, Asst Producer

Short list:
Blood of the Vikings The Blue Planet 
Talking Landscapes
Walk on By Water Colour Challenge 
The Way We Live Now

New Television Programme or Series - Winner: The Kumars at No 42' = BBC2
Recipient: Laura Djanogly, Head of Production at Hat Trick & Cheryl Taylor, Head of Comedy

Short list:
Band of Brothers 
The Day the World Took Off 
The Kumars at No 42

Television Individual Contributor - Winner: Andrew Marr, BBC1 & BBC2 News Programmes 
Recipient: Andrew Marr

Short list:
Adam Hart Davies 
Mark Lawson 
Andrew Marr
Jeremy Paxman 
David Starkey 
Victoria Wood

The BBC1 programme: Panorama - will be awarded a Special Award for Outstanding Public Service in Broadcasting. 

Recipient: Kalwant Sidha.

Mark Tully will be awarded a Special Award for Something Understood and The Gathering At the Ganges = BBC Radio 4. 

Recipient: Laura Parfitt, Editor of Something Understood & Kulwant Sidhu, Producer of The Gathering At the Ganges'.

For more information contact: Linda Forbes on 01474-352835 

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