There were celebrations at Top Spots Digital studios this week marking the 20th anniversary of How Green was My Cactus, and another award for the series.

The long running comedy program won the Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award for Comedy (Sketch and Light Entertainment). The award category covers not only radio, but all media and is the fifth time Cactus has won this much coveted award.

Over the years, Cactus has also taken out four RAWARDS/ACRA Awards for Best Syndicated Program and is again a finalist in this years ACRAs which will be announced in October.

Grace Gibson Productions’ Bruce Ferrier says it is “proof indeed that Cactus still has all the prescient wit and cut-through humour for which it is so rightfully famous.”

Pictured raising a glass to celebrate the occasion are (left to right): Top Spots audio engineer Bill Dowling; ‘man of a thousand voices’ and lead character voice Keith Scott; Cactus creator and chief writer Doug Edwards; Grace Gibson Productions’ Bruce Ferrier; and lead female character Robyn Moore.