Prix Italia:Radio Drama
PRIX ITALIA: BBC WINNERS (and 'Special Mentions' and RTE winners from 2019 onwards)
THE OLD AND TRUE STORY OF RUMPELSTILTSKIN....1949
By Francis Dillon, music by Francis Collinson. 2nd prize. (Venice)
THE FACE OF VIOLENCE....1951
By Jacob Bronowsky; music by Anthony Hopkins. Producer Douglas Cleverdon. (Naples)
THE STREETS OF POMPEI....1953
By Henry Reed; produced by Douglas Cleverdon. Music by Anthony Smith-Masters. RAI Prize for literary / dramatic programmes. (Palermo)
UNDER MILK WOOD....1954
By Dylan Thomas; songs composed by Daniel Jones. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon. Prix Italia for literary / dramatic programmes. (Florence)
PRISONER'S PROGRESS....1954
By Louis MacNeice. A romantic fable. RAI prize for literary / dramatic programmes. (Florence)
THE DOCK BRIEF....1957
By John Mortimer, music by Anthony Hopkins, producer Nesta Pain. RAI prize for literary / dramatic programmes. (Taormina)
EMBERS....1959
By Samuel Beckett, produced by Donald McWhinnie. RAI prize for literary / dramatic programmes. (Sorrento)
THE BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE....1962
By Muriel Spark; music by Tristram Cary. Prix Italia for literary / dramatic programmes "with or without music". (Verona)
THE ANGER OF ACHILLES....1965
By Robert Graves; music by Roberto Gerhard. RAI prize. (Florence)
ALBERT'S BRIDGE....1968
By Tom Stoppard; producer Charles Lefaux. Prix Italia. (Rome)
EVELYN....1970
By Rhys Adrian, producer John Tydeman. RAI prize. (Florence)
THE PUMP....1973
By James Cameron. Prix Italia. (Venice)
THE MYSTERY....1974
By Bill Naughton; producer Guy Vaesen. Prix Italia.(Florence)
FLORENT AND THE TUXEDO MILLIONS....1982
By Peter Redgrove, producer Brian Miller. Prix Italia. (Venice)
SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION....1985
By Howard Barker, producer Richard Wortley. Prix Italia. (Cagliari)
HANG UP....1988
By Anthony Minghella; director Robert Cooper. Prix Italia for fiction. (Capri)
THE VOLUPTUOUS TANGO....1997
By David Zane Mairowitz; music by Dominic Muldowney. Sound: Ian Dearden, producer Ned Chaillet. Special prize for fiction. (Ravenna)
"M"....2004
By Peter Straughan, director Toby Swift, R3. Best adaptation. (Catania / Taormina)
MY ARM....2005
By Tim Crouch; director Toby Swift. Best adaptation. Performed by Tim Crouch, with sound effects by Chris Dorley-Brown. A study of how the things we do when young stay with us for life. (Milan)
METROPOLIS....2007
By Peter Straughan; director Toby Swift. Futuristic story about the son of the head of a large industrial complex. (Verona)
THE INCOMPLETE RECORDED WORKS OF A DEAD BODY....2007
By Ed Hime; about the last days of an Iranian sound recordist. Best radio drama. Director: Jessica Dromgoole. (Verona)
THE REAL GEORGE ORWELL - NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR....2013
Script by Jonathan Holloway; produced by Jeremy Mortimer. A new version of Orwell's classic tale.
Special mention - FROM EDEN....2019
By Stephen Jones; director Goretti Slavin. Two souls banished from Eden to a toilet on New Year's Eve. For RTE.
Special mention - MAGNITSKY THE MUSICAL....2020
By Johnny Flynn and Robert Hudson. Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko. BBC, Radio 3. A musical based on the legislation which allows governments to punish those guilty of violating human rights.
Special mention - ENDLESS SECOND....2022
By Theo Toksvig-Stewart; producer Abigail le Fleming, for BBC. Sexual consent.
THE LAST HIGH KING OF IRELAND....2023
By Patrick Fogerty; for RTE. Produced by Goretti Slavin. We follow a hard-drinking man, 'Tapper', on his daily routine in a fictional town.
A CLOSE APPROXIMATION OF YOU....2023
By Oliver Emanuel, for BBC. produced by Kirsty Williams. Is there a mirror version of our world?
information up to 2007 supplied by Ned Chaillet - many thanks.
