Tinniswood Award 2023

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TINNISWOOD WINNER 2023
Anita Sulllivan: End of Transmission. Well done, Anita.

The award was presented by David Edgar in the Radio Theatre, 19 Mar 23.

TINNISWOOD FINALISTS 2023

A Close Approximation of You by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4

Waterloo Station by Katie Hims, producer Mary Peate, BBC Audio Drama London for BBC Radio 4

Strings by Linda Marshall Griffiths, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North for BBC Radio 3

End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan, producer Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4

NOTES - TINNISWOOD

A Close Approximation of You by Oliver Emanuel, producer Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play - When Kay first meets Michael he’s singing into a mirror to himself. But his love of mirrors isn’t narcissism. He is a theoretical physicist and his job is to explore the possibility that there is a mirror version of our world somewhere. What happens when theory becomes practice? 55m. Kay … Anneika Rose, Michael … Sandy Grierson, Detective…Itxaso Moreno, John and Security Guard…Richard Conlon, Jess and the Agent…Gabriel Quigley. Sound recording: Andy Hay and Kris McConnachie. Sound design: Fraser Jackson.

Waterloo Station by Katie Hims, producer Mary Peate, BBC Audio Drama London for BBC Radio 4
Two strangers look back on an incident that happened a couple of years ago, just before their world turned upside down. It also reflects on our experience of the Covid pandemic. Ray ..... Ralph Ineson, Christa. ..... Christine Bottomley. Produced by Mary Peate.

Strings by Linda Marshall Griffiths, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North for BBC Radio 3
The drama imagines a future world where the survival of the species is threatened and decisions must be made about what is worth saving. The Longyears spacecraft is on a mission to launch into the future by entering interconnected cosmic strings. Once in the time dilation they will await a wave-beacon from NASA that will indicate the moment to return to a future ravaged Earth where the doomsday vault that they carry on board can be utilised and re-introduced to save the human race. But as the ship enters the cosmic strings time itself begins to complicate. Enda.....Tamara Lawrance, Doug.....Andonis Anthony, Jilly.....Jenny Platt, Rez.....Alfred Enoch, Milo.....Adetomiwa Edun, Treth.....Claire Benedict. Sound Design by Sharon Hughes. Directed by Nadia Molinari. Programme Consultants: Dr James M Lea, Dr Ian Dawson, Dr Catherine Heinemeyer. BBC; Drama North. Binaural stereo.

End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan, producer Karen Rose, Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4
Today is Jude’s 50th birthday. She has lived with HIV for over 20 years and has unresolved questions. Only the virus knows the answers. The virus takes her on a transmission journey skipping across continents, centuries, decades and diverse hosts to meet the person who gave her HIV. The play includes Positive Voices speakers from the Terence Higgins Trust. Niamh, Stephen, Allan, Tim, Roland, Ese, Jess and Mary are people living with HIV who share their stories to help end stigma and HIV ransmission. Playwright Anita Sullivan has been living well with HIV since 2000. 'On effective medication; we can’t pass it on'. The Virus.......David Haig, Jude.......Louise Brealey, Kenny......David Carlyle, Vince.......Don Gilet, Marcel/Jojo......Peter Bankole, Ruth.......Madeleine Potter, Elliot.........Richard Laing, Jim/Mark/William....Joel MacCormack, Devina.........Martina Laird. Sound.........David Thomas, Production Coordinators....Jacob Tombling and Sarah Tombling, Producer............Karen Rose Exec Producer.........Rosalynd Ward. Indie (Sweet Talk)

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

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