Indian duo Shirshendu Banerjee and Arvinder Singh – known as Shandy and Sunny – won the 'Whickers Radio & Audio Funding Award' runner's up prize in London last week for their 'Biker Radio Rodcast'.

The Whickers were established in 2015 to fund and recognise original and innovative documentary. They seek to use the generous legacy of their namesake, legendary British broadcaster Alan Whicker, to support emerging audio and film documentary-makers in the production of authored programmes and to recognise exceptional audio that has already been broadcast.

The £3,000 ($3900) award is for their documentary proposal to follow several hardcore biking enthusiasts as they take part in one of the most gruelling motorcycling rallies in the world – the Raid de Himalaya.

“We've always believed that the future is sound and winning a Whickers Award is an echo of appreciation from the finest promoters of original content,” the duo said in a statement. “This puts Biker Radio Rodcast, India's first and exclusive podcast, on the international map as we continue to showcase the stories of motorcycle riders in India on the 'Long Way Home' [show],” they said.

The winner of this year's first prize of £7,000 was radio documentary 'I'm a Shit Activist', inspired by Stokely Carmichael, a civil rights activist in Cuba.