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Celebrating the World's Best Radio Programs℠. A New York Festivals Competition.

02/09/2026

On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off in Mario Ledwith's hometown of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, killing 11 people. A lifetime later, Mario returned to investigate the silence surrounding that terror attack. He was driven by his childhood memories of growing up as so-called 'ceasefire baby' to try and place the horror of Enniskillen in the complex and tangled legacy of The Troubles. During a 12-month investigation, Ledwith spoke with dozens of sources to build a picture of what happened in 1987, many speaking for the first time.

The Poppy Day Bomb is a 6-episode narrative series from The Times and The Sunday Times in London, UK. Brought to life with brilliant sound design and on the ground audio, listeners were taken into the process of investigative journalism and audio storytelling of one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the Troubles.

20/08/2026

Happy National Radio Day!

Today we celebrate the storytellers, creators, broadcasters, and visionaries who continue to shape the power of radio. From compelling audio storytelling to breakthrough creative, radio remains one of the world's most enduring and impactful mediums.

At New York Festivals, we're proud to recognize the work that informs, inspires, and connects audiences across the globe.

12/08/2026

From ESPN's 30 for 30 Podcasts, Chasing Basketball Heaven is a six-part narrative audio-series that explores how a vanished Kansas outsider helped spark one of the most profound revolutions in modern basketball: the rise of analytics and the three-point shot.

Hosted and reported by journalists Nick Altschuller, Rich Levine and Craig Kilborn, this podcast is both a sports history and character-driven investigation. In 1987, Martin Manley published Basketball Heaven, a book that challenged nearly every conventional belief about how basketball should be played. Decades before analytics and the three-point shot became central to the NBA, Manley argued that efficiency—not tradition—should guide the game. His ideas would later echo through front offices, coaching staffs, and analytics departments across the league. Then, just as his influence began to crystallize, Manley disappeared—leaving behind little more than a cryptic website and a trail of unanswered questions.

30 for 30 offers captivating storytelling for sports fans and general interest listeners alike. At its core, the brand is built on the belief that the best sports stories are for everyone.

05/08/2026

This 8-part podcast series, presented by David Bowie's friend and collaborator Kate Moss, explored one of the most exciting periods in rock history, when a shy, introverted David Robert Jones, desperate to become a star, underwent a drastic transformation from folk wannabe to global rock icon.

Driven by an insatiable desire to experiment with a wide variety of musical genres including folk, rock, R&B, musical theatre, psychedelia and even mime, in order to find the success he craved, David morphed through many guises over a five-year period from 1970 to 1975 as he explored the emotional and artistic forces that fueled his potent creativity.

With contributions from dozens of friends and collaborators as well as some of today's artistes inspired by Bowie, along with rare and previously unheard audio of the man himself, 'David Bowie: Changeling' highlights the incredible creative genius of one of the world's most influential rock superstars.

30/07/2026

Corked is a globe-spanning investigation into a little-known scandal that exposed deep cracks within one of the most elite - and opaque - institutions in the hospitality industry: the Court of Master Sommeliers. In 2018, 23 sommeliers were abruptly stripped of one of the industry's highest honors after a cheating scandal triggered a sweeping and secretive decision by the Court.

This six-part Audible Original podcast documentary was several years in the making. Reporter Marc Fennell and producer Maggie Robinson Katz tracked down all 2018 candidates and every board member involved in the decision.

The world of fine wine may seem like a niche, but this reporting exposes ambition, betrayal, and institutional failure, with real-world consequences for the people caught in its path.

22/07/2026

In The Network, hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez took listeners to four countries and across four decades of history to show how a whisper network born in Brazil grew into a movement that helped millions of women worldwide have safe abortions outside of the medical system.

Though the story is large in scope, the series grounds history through individual people who lived that history. For nearly two years, Futuro's reporters, steeped in the Latin American context, interviewed sources in person in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Embedded producer/reporter Abby Wendle tapped into her deep sourcing in the abortion rights movement in the U.S.

By combining the Latin American and U.S. sides of the story, The Network gave U.S. listeners a mirror to see their own country's emerging reality through the stories of women who have been navigating similar restrictions for decades.

15/07/2026

Les Enfermé·es ("The Confined") is a seven-part documentary audio series that took listeners inside places of confinement in France – environments that are highly regulated, largely invisible, and rarely heard in human terms. Through immersive sound and first-hand voices, the series explored what it means to be deprived of liberty, and what these systems reveal about a society's relationship to dignity, rights, and power. This series invited listeners not only to understand confinement, but to confront it – through voices that insisted on being heard.

Journalist Dominique Simonnot and legal expert Mari Goicoechea accompanied unannounced inspections of eleven places of detention across France between 2025 and 2025. Together, they created a series that is both rigorous and deeply human. For the first time, they carried microphones into these institutions. The recordings were made inside prisons, psychiatric hospitals, immigration detention centers, and police holding cells – spaces where access is strictly controlled and where public scrutiny is rare, and reveal how confinement affects bodies, minds, relationships, and identities.

08/07/2026

Airing on BBC World Service, The Bangles founder member Susanna Hoff celebrates the life and legacy of musical and cultural icon Sir Paul McCartney from his Liverpool roots to Beatlemania and beyond.

It's a musical journey that moves from the late 1950s to the present day, spanning McCartney's skiffle start with John Lennon in The Quarrymen, all the way through to his long solo career, taking in Mersey Beat; the rise of the 'Fab Four' to 1960s icons; and Wings' 1970s success along the way.

The documentary reveals how The Beatles could only have come from Liverpool, and how a visit to McCartney's old grammar school led to a significant legacy: the formation of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). The city of his birth gave McCartney and his fellow mop-tops their creative spark, with Sir Paul now giving back via new generations of talent.

02/07/2026

To celebrate the semiquincentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we are opening our Winners Spotlight Series with The Sounds of America.

The Sounds of America profiles recordings selected for the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. The registry preserves for all time audio recordings that have significantly impacted American culture. Every year, 25 pieces of sound are added to the list, which contains iconic recordings of music, news, theater and sports.

For 2025, Accompany Studios' Jennie Cataldo features a triple spotlight on Tracy Chapman's eponymous album of 1988 featuring "Fast Cars" and making Grammy history in 2023 when Luke Combs recorded his own version; The Music from the video game Minecraft composed by Daniel Rosenfeld aka C41; and The Steve Miller Band's Fly Like An Eagle album whose title track peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Fly Like an Eagle" has maintained staying power in American popular culture, remaining a rock radio classic and one of the most recognizable songs of the 1970’s.

24/06/2026

Greg Eskridge was incarcerated for 30 years, most recently at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. He was convinced he would die in prison. But then, volunteers from a local radio station came in, and Greg and other San Quentin residents made an audacious suggestion: Instead of reporting on us, why not let us tell our own stories? That initiative eventually became the Uncuffed program – a pioneering audio training program and journalism collaboration between incarcerated people and KALW Public Media.

When Greg was released on July 23, 2024, he decided to tell his story. That became the core of Season 4 of Uncuffed. In January 2026, Greg Eskridge became co-program director of Uncuffed. This podcast tells the story of how he went from a boy who once ran away from abuse at home and lived in a car – to now being a leader of one of the country's pre-imminent prison journalism projects.

Produced by incarcerated trainees at San Quentin, Solano State Prison, and the California Institution for Women, the stories on Uncuffed are organized around themes of honesty, reckoning, authenticity and connection.

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