RADIO station Jack FM has picked up two prizes in the Oscars of the radio world, the Sony Awards.

The station, based in Oxford’s Woodstock Road, picked up the gold award for best station ‘imaging’ – the sections between the songs – and presenter Ali Booker won the silver award for best community programming for a broadcast account of her fight against cancer.

Programme director, breakfast presenter and Oxford Mail columnist Sue Carter said: “Jack is unique because we spend thousands of pounds every year employing writers to write topical, funny, witty lines, so that when people listen to the radio station it makes them laugh.”

She was full of praise for Miss Booker’s show, which has also been nominated for an Arqiva award. She said: “She shares everything so honestly. We think she is inspirational. Sometimes they make you laugh, sometimes they make you cry.”

Miss Booker, 46, overcame breast cancer in 2003, but the disease returned, and in 2006 she was told the condition was inoperable after it spread to her lungs.

For the past 18 months, she has been recording weekly short audio diaries broadcast during the breakfast show.

Sony Award judges described the programme as a moving example of real life story-telling and commended the station’s decision to use peak time to bring the subject to the fore.

The mother of two, who lives in Wantage, said: “I am very, very humbled.”

Jack FM is broadcast on 106.8 and 106.4 FM.