08 September 2011
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Radio
The shortlists have been announced for the annual Tinniswood and Imison radio drama awards
The Tinniswood Award honours the best original radio drama script. The shortlist this year (for drama broadcast in 2010) is:
- The Climb, by Andrea Earl
- Sarah And Ken, by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- Setting A Glass, by Nick Warburton
- Gerontius, by Stephen Wyatt
The prize of £1,500 is donated by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, and the judges were Robert Bathurst, Paul Donovan and Nell Leyshon. The Award was established by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and is administered by the Society of Authors.
The Imison Award honours the best original radio drama script by a writer new to radio. The shortlist this year (for drama broadcast in 2010) is:
- Atching Tan - A Tober Of Loki Nogo, by Dan Allum
- The Pursuit, by Matt Hartley
- The Barber And The Ark, by Marcia Layne
- Amazing Grace, by Michelle Lipton
The prize of £1,500 is donated by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. It was founded and judged by members of the Society of Authors’ Broadcasting Committee (Alison Joseph (Chair), Mike Bartlett, Lucy Caldwell, Nazrin Choudhury, Christopher William Hill, Karen Liebreich, Sue Limb, Karl Sabbagh, Colin Teevan and John Taylor).
The presentation of the awards will take place on the evening of Sunday 4th December at a private reception at the Radio Theatre, London.
