The winners of the annual Celtic Media Festival Torc Awards for excellence were announced yesterday evening in a special broadcast from Glasgow. The 2020 Celtic Media Festival was due to take place in Quimper, France, from the 4th-6th of June, but, in line with current restrictions, the event's ceremonial centrepiece went virtual, as the coveted Torc Awards were announced live on the Celtic Media Festival Facebook page.
Comedian, writer and presenter Sanjeev Kohli, star of Still Game, was joined by Festival Director Catriona Logan and Festival Manager Naomi Wright, in Glasgow for the first-ever live streamed ceremony in the Festival's 41 year history.
RT 's searing analysis of the Irish greyhound industry took the award for best current affairs, while BBC Two's Two Doors Down was named best comedy. TG4's Finn Sophia Murphy won for best factual series, and RT Radio 1 was named, for the first time since CMF 2008, as Radio Station of the Year.
The winner of the Drama Series category, Guilt, is the first drama commission of the new BBC Scotland channel and beat off big hitters, like past winner Line of Duty. The new BBC Scotland Channel had further success with their programme Jockey Wilson Says winning best Sports Documentary.
Stardust, a six-part podcast about the 1981 Stardust fire was the first podcast in Celtic Media Festival's history to win best Radio Documentary.
In a brand-new category, Radio Drama, Near FM's Petals won the coveted Torc, with judges proclaiming it one if the best things they've heard on radio in a very long time.
It was a particularly strong year for Celtic languages, with five winners in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as well as strong representation for Breton, Welsh and Cornish. In a first for the event, the coveted Spirit of the Festival was won by Brittany, with France 3 Bretagne's Yann-Fa ch Kemener, Tremen En Ur Gana .
Celtic Media Festival Director Catriona Logan says: The quality of the nominees and winners leaves us in no doubt as to the strength of the media sector across Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Galicia, Brittany and the Isle of Man, and the huge contribution our sector makes in defining who we are as individual nations. The Celtic Media Festival truly lets that individuality sing, but it also shows us much of what unites us. We look forward to sharing it all in person once again in 2021, as we prepare for Quimper and what will undoubtedly be our most eagerly awaited festival in years. Warmest congratulations to this year's nominees and winners.
For more visit www.celticmediafestival.co.uk
Category Winner Country Company Broadcaster
Animation M morable BRITTANY Vivement Lundi
Arts Sl n leis an gCeol IRELAND R nda Productions RT
Children's The Girl at the End of the Garden IRELAND Dyehouse Films
Comedy Two Doors Down SCOTLAND BBC Studios BBC Two
Current Affairs Greyhounds, Running For Their Lives IRELAND RT Investigations Unit RT
Drama Series Guilt SCOTLAND Happy Tramp North and Expectation BBC Scotland and BBC Two
Entertainment Prosiect Pum Mil WALES Boom Cymru S4C
Factual Entertainment C n i Gymru: Dathlu'r 50 WALES Avanti S4C
Factual Series Finn Sophia Murphy IRELAND Tua Films TG4
History 39-45, La Bretagne Sous l'Occupation BRITTANY Carr ment l'Ouest T b o, T b Sud, TVR
Radio Comedy A Perforated Ulster IRELAND Hole In The Wall Productions BBC Radio Ulster
Radio Documentary Stardust IRELAND TheJournal.ie Podcast - Journal.ie
Radio Drama Petals IRELAND Near FM Near FM
Radio Magazine Show Bladhaire IRELAND RT Raidi na Gaeltachta RT Raidi na Gaeltachta
Radio Music Sruth na Maoile IRELAND RT Raidi na Gaeltachta / BBC Radio nan G idheal RT Raidi na Gaeltachta / BBC Radio nan G idheal
Radio Presenter of the Year Tudur Owen WALES BBC Radio Cymru BBC Radio Cymru
Radio Sport Super G: How Geraint Won the Yellow Jersey WALES BBC Sport Wales BBC Radio Wales & 5Live
Radio Station of the Year RT Radio 1 IRELAND RT Radio 1 RT
Short Drama Yn Mor CORNWALL Zoe Alker
Short Form Tremble SCOTLAND Scottish Ballet/Hopscotch Films
Single Documentary Nae Pasaran SCOTLAND Debasers Filums BBC Scotland
Single Drama BAIT CORNWALL Early Day Films
Spirit of the Festival Yann-Fa ch Kemener, Tremen En Ur Gana BRITTANY France 3 Bretagne France 3 Bretagne
Sports Documentary Jocky Wilson Said SCOTLAND BBC Scotland Multiplatform Productions BBC Scotland & BBC One Scotland
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The winners of the annual Celtic Media Festival Torc Awards for excellence were announced yesterday evening in a special broadcast from Glasgow. The 2020 Celtic Media Festival was due to take place in Quimper, France, from the 4th-6th of June, but, in line with current restrictions, the event's ceremonial centrepiece went virtual, as the coveted Torc Awards were announced live on the Celtic Media Festival Facebook page.
