Tinniswood Award 2020

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14 Oct 18 Death Of A Matriarch
By Tanika Gupta. Broadcast Sun 14 Oct, R3. From Edinburgy Fringe, 8pm. One of three short plays broadcast that evening. It’s Christmas day and these are the last 30 minutes of Sita's life. As she struggles to differentiate reality from dreams and hallucinations, she is visited by two old friends from the past bearing gifts, memories and a hint of what’s to come. Starring Meera Syal. (Note that when I searched, this didn't come up on BBC Genome - there was a typing error on the word 'matriarch').


10 Nov 18 Home Front - A Fragile Peace
By Katie Hims. 75-minute special: marking the centenary of WW1. It is 10 Nov 1918 and Folkestone is preparing for the first Remembrance Day. Florrie: Claire Rushbrook, Albert: Jamie Foreman, Kitty: Ami Metcalf, Victor: Joel MacCormack, Adam: Billy Kennedy, Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson, Alice: Claire-Louise Campbell, Esme: Katie Angelou, Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw, Isabel: Keely Beresford, Charles: Rufus Wright, Ralph: Nick Murchie, Mrs. Edkins: Rachel Davies, Bill: Ben Crowe, Norman: Sean Baker, Mariion: Laura Elphinstone, Edie: Kathryn Beaumont. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham; director: Jessica Dromgoole.


25 Dec 18: The Hartlepool Spy
By Ian Martin. It is 1804 and a French warship is wrecked in Hartlepool. Cavendish: Michael Palin, Rev. Ferrier: Jim Moir, Mayor Palmer: Toby Jones, Lady Enbleton: Gina McKee, Mrs. Palmer: Monica Dolan, Garvey: Jason Forbes, The Monkey: Robin Berry. Producer: Sam Ward.

Call for Entries – Imison and Tinniswood Awards 2020

We were delighted to see Lulu Raczka win the 2019 Imison Award with her radio play Of A Lifetime (produced by Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions) and Oliver Emanuel awarded the Tinniswood for When the Pips Stop (produced by Kirsty Williams, BBC Glasgow) at the BBC Radio Drama Awards held in February of this year.

Help us continue to celebrate the best audio drama by sending in your entries for 2020! To be eligible scripts will have to have been broadcast or made available online in the UK between 1 October 2018 - 31 October 2019. Please apply with all supporting materials before 6 October 2019.

Imison Award - £3,000

Best original script by a writer new to audio drama with the £3,000 prize sponsored by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. The application form and entry details can be found here:

2020 judges are committee members of the Society of Authors Scriptwriters Group: Barney Norris, Niel Bushnell, Stefan Buczacki, Jamila Gavin, Nell Leyshon, David Morley, Hannah Silva, Sean Grundy, and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal.

Shortlisted for the 2019 award alongside Lulu Raczka were Ian Billings with ‘Spike and the Elfin Oak’ (produced by Gemma Jenkins) and Carl Cattermole with ‘Double Bubble’ (produced by the Prison Radio Association).

The award is administered by the Society of Authors.

For more information please, click here:

Tinniswood Award - £3,000

Best original script with the £3,000 prize being sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). The application form, more information and entry details can be found here:

The 2020 judges have not yet been confirmed.

Shortlisted for the 2019 award alongside Oliver Emanuel were Vivienne Harvey with ‘Playing Dead’ (produced by Nadia Molinari) and Martyn Wade for ‘Holbein’s Skull’ (produced by Tracey Neale).

The Tinniswood Award is jointly administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.

Please contact Sophia Jackson or myself with any questions: sjackson@societyofauthors.org / tjones@societyofauthors.org .

Theo Jones

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