The Messenger podcast wins top honour at international radio awards

The story of a Sudanese refugee detained on Manus Island under Australia’s offshore detention regime was awarded the top honour at an international radio festival in New York on Monday night.

Produced by the Wheeler Centre and published by Guardian Australia, The Messenger podcast chronicles daily life on Manus Island for Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Zaghawa man from the Darfur region of Sudan, who fled his homeland in 2013 only to find himself locked up indefinitely in Papua New Guinea.

The Messenger beat a strong field of international competitors across 150 categories to be named one of 2017’s three grand award winners at the New York festival’s International Radio Program awards.

It also picked up two gold medals, one for national or international affairs documentary broadcasts and one for news podcasts.

Aziz tells his story to journalist Michael Green over 3,500 brief WhatsApp messages sent from detention, detailing his journey by boat, the deterioration and deaths of friends…

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