It won the 1996 Music Industries Association Award for Spoken Word Recording of the Year. Since then Johnston has abridged and produced more than one hundred audiobooks, including recordings by Sir Michael Parkinson, Alan Titchmarsh, Tony Benn, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, John Humphrys, Shane Warne, Jack Dee and many others. In 2003 Johnston and Seymour produced the audio CD "The Wit of Cricket" (Hodder Headline) featuring Dickie Bird, Henry Blofeld and Brian Johnston, which became the number one bestselling audiobook in the UK in 2007 and 2008 and received a Silver disc award for sales of more than 60,000. Barry Johnston took over BarryMour Productions in 2006 and he now runs his own company, Barn Productions. Johnston has edited and written several books including "An Evening with Johnners" which was a "Sunday Times" top ten bestseller in 1996 and "Letters Home 1926–1945", also a "Sunday Times" top ten bestseller in 1998. As editor:  And as author:  Johnston has also abridged several books for "Book at Bedtime" on BBC Radio 4 including "Solar" by Ian McEwan and "A Tiny Bit Marvellous" by Dawn French.