IMISON AWARD 2025 -
For plays broadcast from
1 Oct 2023-31 Oct 2024

IMISON FINALISTS 2025

Tribe of Two by Malaika Kegode, producers Jesse Fox and Nicolas Jackson, Afonica Productions

Tether by Isley Lynn, producer Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Wales and West

The Mini-Break by Chloe Myerson, producer Anne Isger, BBC Studios Audio, London

Under Milk Woods: Tywyn by Manon Steffan-Rhos, producer Emma Harding, BBC Audio Wales and West

NOTES

TRIBE OF TWO

11 Sep 24: Tribe of Two
By Malaika Kegode. Mari has never felt she belongs, living in a sleepy market town in Devon. There are annoyances that come with being a mixed-race kid in noughties rural England. Then there’s Baba, her larger-than-life Zimbabwean father, a musician with more than local fame. He's desperate for Mari to learn his songs. But she feels little connection to a country and a culture she's never experienced. Mari ..... Mae Munuo, Makenda ….. Mogali Masuku, Baba ..... Cyril Nri, Mum/Chrissie ..... Mary Woodvine, Ben ….. Nay Oliver Murphy, Salt Peter/Hippy ….. Stephen Kennedy, The Jess’s/Form teacher ….. Jade Matthew, Lad ..... Flynn Hallman. Other voices played by the cast. Composer: Harry Wrigley. Mbira player and composer, Otto Gumaelius. Sound design, Adam Woodhams. Mix, Steve Bond. Producer: Jesse Fox. Executive producer: Nicolas Jackson. Indie (Afonica).

TETHER

28 Aug 24: Tether
By Isley Lynn. Set in 2010. Becky's a blind marathon runner, She needs a new guide. Mark is a former 'Olympic Hopeful', after a fresh chance at a medal. He may be the person she's looking for. Becky – Mared Jarman, Mark – Tommy Sim’aan, News Reporters – Cellan Wyn, Gemma and News Reporter – Anna Spearpoint, Access Consultant – Margo Cargill, Production Coordinator – Eleri McAuliffe Sound Design by Nigel Lewis, Produced by Fay Lomas. BBC Wales.

THE MINI-BREAK

19 Mar 24: The Mini-Break
By Chloe Myerson. Esme is meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. But when she discovers a dark family secret, making a good impression becomes the least of her worries. The story is inspired by the writing of Hans Christian Andersen, famous for his creepy fairy tales. Esme ..... Máiréad Tyers, Danny ..... Josh Bryant-Jones, Susanna ..... Jane Slavin, Tim ..... Nicholas Woodeson, The Storyteller .... David Menkin Agneta ..... Kitty O’Sullivan. Produced by Anne Isger. Sound by Ali Craig and Andy Garratt.

UNDER MILK WOODS

28 Jan 24: Under Milk Woods
By five Welsh writers. To mark the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (25 January 1954), five short dramatic portraits of each writer's parts of Wales in 2024. The writers are Joe Dunthorne (Swansea), Manon Steffan Ros (Tywyn), Menna Elfyn (New Quay), Hanan Issa (Cardiff) and Rachel Trezise (the Rhondda). Additional narration by Joe Dunthorne. The original Under Milk Wood moves through the fictional town of Llareggub over the course of a single day; these pieces do the same. First Voice.....Ruth Jones, Act 1: Swansea by Joe Dunthorne, Caitlin....Sophie Melville, Emlyn....Shaheen Jafargholi, Fiona.....Nadia Wyn Abouayen, Helen.....Tamara Brabon, Mikey.....Antoine Lopez-Norton, Act 2: Tywyn by Manon Steffan Ros, Mrs Satin....Sara Harris-Davies, Gwil the Poet.....Gwion Morris Jones, Delyth Elen.....Lois Meleri Jones, Afanc.....James O'Quinn, Act 3: New Quay by Menna Elfyn, Cai.....Ioan Hefin, Osian.....Ifan Huw Dafydd, Rhiannon.....Eiry Thomas, Act 4: Cardiff by Hanan Issa, Hanan.....Hanan Issa, Diff.....Dean Rehman, Lord Bute.....Colin Paterson, Act 5: The Rhondda by Rachel Trezise, Gracie Rowlands.....Maisie Lee Bryant, Bex.....Sophie Melville, Eric Watkins....Alan David, Amy Jenkins...Tamara Brabon. Production Co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees, Sound design by Jonathan Thomas and Catherine Robinson, Produced by Fay Lomas and Emma Harding, BBC Wales.

Call for entries – Audio Drama Awards 2025

Help us continue to celebrate the best audio drama by sending in your entries for 2025. To be eligible, scripts will have to have been broadcast or made available online in the UK between 1 October 2023 and 31 October 2024.

Please apply with all supporting materials by Tuesday 4 October 2024.

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.

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 2025 judges are yet to be confirmed. The prize is this year administered by the SoA.

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).

IMISON AWARD: PREVIOUS YEARS
2024 2023 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
2024 Benny and Hitch, by Andrew McCaldon
2023 Making of a Monster, by Connor Allen
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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