Richard Imison Award

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The Richard Imison Award is an award which recognises the best radio drama, generally by a writer new to the industry, and is now awarded as part of the BBC Audio Drama Awards. It was established in 1994 and commemorates the life and work of Richard Imison.[1]

Richard Imison was Script Editor for BBC Radio Drama from 1963 to 1991. In the thirty years that Imison worked for BBC Radio Drama it was the largest patron of original creative dramatic writing in Britain. In his role as Script Editor no other single individual therefore had as much influence in either the discovery of new talent or the encouragement of established writers such as Edward Albee, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Alexander Gelman, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett in the production of Drama for this genre.

After his death in 1993 the Society of Authors established the Richard Imison Award in recognition of Imison's enduring influence on the development of high quality dramatic writing.

Submissions for the award must consist of a completed nomination form as well as three copies of the writer's original script and recording of the broadcast. Further copies may be requested if the work is short-listed. Further details can be found on the Society of Authors website.[2]

List of prize winners

The prize winners[3]

Year Author Play
2010 Eoin McNamee The Road Wife
2009 Lucy Caldwell Girl from Mars
2008 Adam Beeson The Magician's Daughter
2007 Mike Bartlett Not Talking
2006 Nazrin Choudhury Mixed Blood
2005 Steve Coombs Mr. Sex
2004 Stephen Sharkey All You on the Good Earth
2003 N.Leyshon & S. McAnena Milk; Celia Bryce for The Skategrinder
2002 Rhiannon Tise The Waltzer
2001 Murray Gold Electricity
2000 Peter Morgan A Matter of Interpretation
1999 Ben Cooper Skin Deep
1998 Katie Hims Earthquake Girl
1997 John Waters joint winner Rosemary Kay Holy Secrets & Wilde Belles
1996 Lee Hall I Luv You Jimmy Spud
1995 Gerry Stembridge joint winner James Stock Daisy the Cow who Talked & Kissing the Gargoyle
1994 Gabriel Gbadamosi The Long Hot Summer of '76

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