The Garden Media Guild Awards 2009

The Garden Media Guild Awards celebrate the best in garden writing - including books, newspapers and magazines - photography, broadcasting - TV and radio - and new media - including gardening websites and gardening blogs. They are the garden media 'Oscars'.

 

Broadcast Awards

 

Local Radio Broadcast of the Year

Winner: Gardening Plus on BBC Essex, presenter Ken Crowther, editor Tim Gillett.

Finalists:
Dougan Does Gardening on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, presenter Sue Dougan.
Gardening Phone-in on BBC Radio Sheffield, presenters Rony Robinson and Neil Grant.
Grow It, Cook It, Eat It on BBC Somerset, presenters Emma Britton and Rebecca Pow, editor Jess Rudkin.
Sunday Gardening on BBC Radio Kent, presenter Andy Garland.

 

National Radio Broadcast of the Year

Winner: The War of the Roses on BBC Radio 4, presenter Wesley Kerr, producer Tamsin Barber.

Finalists:
Gardeners’ Question Time, at Brightlingsea, on BBC Radio 4, presenter Eric Robson, producer Lucy Dichmont.
Gardeners’ Question Time, Summer Garden Party, on BBC Radio 4, presenter Eric Robson, producer Lucy Dichmont.
Jeremy Vine Show: Allotment Doctor Terry Walton, on BBC Radio 2, presenter Jeremy Vine.
The Food Programme: 'Potatoes' on BBC Radio 4, presenter Sheila Dillon, producer Dilly Barlow.

 

Garden Feature TV Broadcast of the Year

Winner: Country File John Craven investigates the plight of our bees, by BBC Birmingham for BBC TV.

Finalists:
BBC Red Button Chelsea: How Plants Move by Valerie McBride-Munro, Elliot Cranmer & Amanda Colpoys for BBC 1 and BBC 2.
Country File Grow Your Own, by BBC Birmingham for BBC TV.
Gardeners’ World Carol Klein Gardening School – Green Seed, by BBC for BBC2.
The One Show Wildlife Spectacles – Wildflowers by Tigress Productions for BBC1.

 

Garden Programme TV Broadcast of the Year

Winner: Grow Your Own Drugs by Silver River Productions for BBC2.

Finalists:
A Garden in Snowdonia by BBC Wales for BBC2.
Gardeners’ World Special: For Peat’s Sake by BBC.
Gardeners’ World Special: No Grounds for Gardening by BBC.
Wild About Your Garden by BBC.

 

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