Brothers score gold with radio collaboration (From Western Telegraph)

Brothers score gold with radio collaboration

AWARD-WINNING broadcasting brothers Stephen and Paul Evans have notched up a gold.

Stephen Evans, the BBC journalist who brought the full horror of the September 11th terrorist attack into our homes, and his music producer brother Paul, won the Sony Gold Music Special Award for 'Axles, Engines, Music and Motown'.

It was their second collaboration for BBC Radio 4 and was a social, political and musical history of Motown Music.

The judges felt it brought fresh life to the subject and described it as 'a pacy show which really captured their imagination.

Brought up in Bridgend, the brothers have strong family links with Pembrokeshire. They are the grandsons of the late G. W. (George) John, who was the long-serving headmaster of Camrose South School, a chairman of the old Haverfordwest Rural District Council and a weekly contributor to the Western Telegraph with 'Peeps into the Past'.

Steve, who began his journalistic career on the Western Telegraph in the 1970s, is the multi-award winning BBC's North American business correspondent. He was in the World Trade Center when it was attacked on September 11th.

Three weeks later, his brother Paul joined him in New York to make a moving and highly personal account of how he and fellow New Yorkers were handling their grief through music and poetry. The brothers are currently working on The Story of Yiddish Radio for BBC Radio 4.

Paul, who lives and works in Swansea, is a senior producer for BBC Wales' music department. He makes music features and documentaries primarily for BBC Radio 4. This is his third Sony award and second gold.

This year alone he has made Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats with the former Chancellor, Deep Blue (history of the Blues) and is currently working on Cricket Calypso and the Story of Township Music - which have taken him to Chicago, Memphis, St Louis, Kansas City and Trinidad since January, with South Africa to follow.