IMISON AWARD 2023 -
For plays broadcast from
1 Oct 2021-31 Oct 2022

WINNER - IMISON AWARD 2023
Connor Allen, for Making of a Monster; well done, Connor.
Presented by Nick Imison, son of Richard Imison in the BBC Radio Theatre, 19 Mar 23.

FINALISTS - IMISON AWARD 2023

Making of a Monster by Connor Allen, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4

Knock of the Ban Sithe by Kenny Boyle, producer Bruce Young, BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4

The A-Z of Things: M is for Mussels by Lara Barbier, producer Becky Ripley, BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 3

NOTES - IMISON

Making of a Monster by Connor Allen, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Radio 4
Autobiographical drama. Connor is a bright, mixed race Newport teenager, but his life is in danger of spiralling out of control, fuelled by his confusion and despair over who he is and why his father is largely absent from his life. Connor is the Welsh Children's Laureate. Adult Connor.....Connor Allen, Little Man.....Jace Henry, Teenage Connor.....Jailen O'Daim, Mum.....Siwan Morris, Jonny/ Operator.....Gabin Kongola, Dad.....Kev McCurdy, Form Teacher/ Trolley Lady.....Claire Cage, Police Officer/ Judge.....Dick Bradnum. Production co-ordinator......Eleri McAuliffe. Sound design.....Nigel Lewis. Produced by Emma Harding. BBC Wales.

Knock of the Ban Sithe by Kenny Boyle, producer Bruce Young, BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4
A contemporary ghost story based on Gaelic folklore. Three siblings return to the family croft on the Isle of Lewis to visit their dying mother – but their childhood home is haunted by unsettling memories and fears as they wait through the night for the arrival of the dreaded Ban-Sithe; a 'fairy woman' with menacing physical attributes. . Kirstin………..Helen Mackay, Mairi………….Sophia Mclean, Calum……….Kenny Boyle, Peggi………..Mairi Morrison, Titan…………Aora.

The A-Z of Things: M is for Mussels by Lara Barbier, producer Becky Ripley, BBC Bristol for BBC Radio 3
Margo is pregnant and she can't stop eating mussels. The hard shells are shaped like blue-black tears, gifted from mother to daughter. They speak of sorrow. They speak of the sea... Sound design by Laurence Nelson. Margo played by Alexandria Riley; Rowan by Joe Simms. Produced by Becky Ripley. BBC Bristol.

Call for entries – Audio Drama Awards 2023

Help us continue to celebrate the best audio drama by sending in your entries for 2023. To be eligible, scripts will have to have been broadcast or made available online in the UK between 1 October 2021 and 31 October 2022.

Last year’s winners include Faebian Averies for the Imison Award with his radio play The Lemonade Lads (produced by James Robinson – BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Radio) and the late Sonya Hale for the Tinniswood with Blis-ta (Produced by Clean Break – Spotify). The awards were presented at the BBC Audio Drama Awards held in March 2022.

Please apply here with all supporting materials by Tuesday 4 October 2022.

Imison Award - £3,000

Best original script by a writer new to audio drama with the £3,000 prize sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. The 2023 judges are Committee members of the Society of Authors Scriptwriters Group: David Morley (Chair), Ian Billings, Ben Carpenter, Imogen Church, Trish Cooke, Jamila Gavin, Sean Grundy, Robin Mukherjee, Barney Norris and Rhiannon Tise.

Tinniswood Award - £3,000

Best original script of the year with the £3,000 prize sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). The 2023 judges are yet to be confirmed. The prize is this year administered by the WGGB.

With thanks to:

The Peggy Ramsay Foundation which seeks to perpetuate Peggy Ramsay’s ideals, by directly helping dramatists at very different stages of experience in ways which it is determined to keep as quick and unbureaucratic as possible.

The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS); this is a not-for-profit organisation started by writers for the benefit of all types of writers. Owned by its members, ALCS collects money due for secondary uses of writers’ work. It is designed to support authors and their creativity, to ensure they receive fair payment and see their rights are respected. It promotes and teaches the principles of copyright and campaigns for a fair deal. It represents over 110,000 members, and since 1977 has paid around £500 million to writers (www.alcs.co.uk).

Contact

Imison Award: Sophia A Jackson, Society of Authors, at sjackson@societyofauthors.org

Tinniswood Award: Theo Jones, Society of Authors, at tjones@societyofauthors.org

IMISON AWARD: PREVIOUS YEARS
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1997 1995 1994

A summary of past Imison winners is shown below. Note that 2016 is not missing; there was a change in the way the year was worked out.

PAST IMISON AWARD WINNERS
2022 The Lemonade Lads, by Faebian Averies
2021 Maynard, by Fraser Ayres
2020 Bathwater, by Vicky Foster
2019 Of A Lifetime, by Lulu Raczka
2018 The Book of Yehudit, by Adam Usden
2017 Comment is Free, by James Fritz
2015 Thirty Eggs, by Eoin O'Connor
2014 How To Say Goodbye Properly, by E.V.Crowe
2013 The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman, by Joseph Wilde
2012 Do You Like Banana, Comrades? by Csaba Székely
2011 Amazing Grace, by Michelle Lipton
2010 The Road Wife, by Eoin McNamee
2009 Girl from Mars,by Lucy Caldwell
2008 Adam Beeson, for The Magician's Daughter
2007 Mike Bartlettt, for Not Talking
2006 Nazrin Choudhury, for Mixed Blood
2005 Steve Coombs, for Mr. Sex
2004 Stephen Sharkey, for All You on the Good Earth
2003 N.Leyshon & S. McAnena for Milk; Celia Bryce for The Skategrinder
2002 Rhiannon Tise, for The Waltzer
2001 Murray Gold, for Electricity
2000 Peter Morgan, for A Matter of Interpretation
1999 Ben Cooper, for Skin Deep
1998 Katie Hims, for Earthquake Girl
1997 John Waters, for Holy Secrets (jt); Rosemary Kay, for Wilde Belles
1996 Lee Hall, for I Love You Jimmy Spud
1995 Gerry Stembridge, for Daisy the Cow who Talked (jt) and James Stock, for Kissing the Gargoyle
1994 Gabriel Gbadamosi, for The Long Hot Summer of '76

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