Nick Clarke Award

The Nick Clarke Award was launched by then Radio 4 Controller Mark Damazer at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October 2007.[1] It is presented at the festival each year, the inaugural prize being awarded in October 2008.[2] The Panellists and judges of the Nick Clarke Award come from the BBC and other media and broadcast organisations.[1] As part of the award, the winner receives a case of claret, a favourite tipple of Clarke's.

• 2008 - Carrie Gracie (BBC World Service) - for her interview with Alan Johnston[3]
• 2009 - Victoria Derbyshire (BBC Radio 5 Live) - for her interview of Peter Bacon[4]
• 2010 - P.D. James (BBC Radio 4) - for her interview with BBC Director Mark Thompson[5]
• 2011 - Steve Hewlett (BBC Radio 4) - for his interview with Lady Peta Buscombe[6]
• 2012 - Stewart White (BBC News Look East) - for his interview with Lord Hanningfield following the peer’s release from prison after his conviction on expenses fraud.[7]
• 2013 - Iain Lee (BBC Three Counties Radio) - for his interview with Stephen Conroy, acting chief executive of Bedford Hospital NHS Trust[8]
• 2014 - Stephen Nolan (The Nolan Show) (BBC Northern Ireland) - for his interview with Pastor James McConnell. The interview dealt with the Belfast preacher's controversial denunciation of Muslims and their faith.[9]
• 2015 - Jeremy Bowen (BBC Middle East Editor) (BBC) - for his interview with Bashar al-Assad. The interview was a wide-ranging talk with al-Assad, covering not least the Syrian President's actions against his own citizens and the changing dynamic of the fight against the Islamic State.[10]

A shortlist was published in 2016[11] but the website, as of 2018, hasn't been updated.