Radio Times wins D&AD award 2006: covers series about Live 8 (Bob Geldof, Coldplay, U2, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Joss Stone)

The Radio Times Live 8 cover series was for the Radio Times' preview of the Live 8 event that took place in July 2005. Radio Times had ten days to contact, photograph, interview and send to print eight of the biggest acts that appeared on the bill for that event. The eight seperate covers for that issue was a first in publishing for a mass market weekly consumer magazine.