The BBC Radio 5 Live programme featuring a heart transplant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has scooped a top national radio award.

Heart Transplant Day, produced by Wire Free Productions, was broadcast in June 2015 and followed patient Stephen Halsey into the operating theatre, witnessing first-hand the life-saving, intricate surgery in roughly real time.

The recording won the Best Factual Production title at the BBC Radio Awards on Monday 9 May 2016. It was also nominated for the Most Distinctive Moment of the Year award.

The annual BBC Radio Awards took place at the Radio Theatre in London, hosted by Asian Network presenter Tommy Sandhu. The private internal event is designed to celebrate the creativity of BBC people and content, and the Gold Award ended up being awarded to everyone in BBC Radio.