The influential shadow of John Walters loomed large over this year's 20th Sony Radio Awards as two of his former charges, John Peel and Andy Kershaw, were among the night's winners.

Peel paid tribute to his influential producer, who passed away last year, after winning the prestigious Gold Award, while Kershaw won the music programming award for his Radio Three show and was part of the same station's speech award win for A Caribbean Night.

"The man who, in a ...